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It was only a matter of time before someone invoked lovecraft :-)

The smartarse reply would be 'neither'.

As i'm not a smartarse, i'd probably say costa

I was given a copy of China Miéville's The City and The City at christmas and it's finally made it to the top of the To Read pile.

About halfway through and I'm really enjoying it. First of his books i've read and i think i was expecting something quite different. Nicely understated, the central premise isn't dealt with too heavy handedly, and it kind of feeds the mystery of the story to you in a nicely measured way - not too flashily. I'm awful at review-lets, sorry.

I love those new edition covers! The text is slightly embossed isn't it? Or is it overprinted?

Bristol (fishponds to be precise), but I'm down that way quite a bit. Go to charmouth and surrounding area regularly. I've been in the honiton BTP, but will be checking out the Coffee number one when it opens.

Have you been to 'amongst Giants and idols' in Lyme? Pretty good coffee and they roast their own.

Sold!

Didn't work out for me as I was going to try and use them for brake cables. Kind of under estimated how much smaller they are, although I was going to widen the holes.

I basically bought a load of different grommets in the hope that some might be a good fit for an internal cable run on my bike. These were never going to fit to be honest.

You can have them free collected in Bristol or for the cost of postage (call it a quid?) because I may as well send to someone who needs them rather than send back to chainreaction for an embarrassingly small refund.

I'm trying to work out which Coffee No.1 you're at from that photo :-)

I have one just down the road from me, plus a Grounded. Coffee No.1 just pips it for coffee quality, which is a shame as the Grounded is so much better to hang out in with a small child.

This guy:

I'm trying to think of a pun that involves 'constantiNOPEal'. Not happening.

How come Bollywood is still called Bollywood? Shouldn't it be Mullywood or something?

The German versions are about 26% more teutonic.

I do know a guy who only listens to 'foreign' music and will feign ignorance of fairly well known bands if they're english or american. For all i know it's not an act, but it's obviously definitely all an act and i enjoy letting myself get wound right up about it.

That bit was supposed to be slightly self-effacing :-)

I never bothered OG-ing up my re-issue copy of Man Machine - the ultimate snub

Bloody Brussels bureaucrats forcing us to pronounce things like we didn't even win the war!

If i want to pronounce Nike as one syllable, then i bloody well will.

It kind of annoys me when english people pronounce Kraftwerk with the hard german W - 'kraftverk', even though that's the correct pronunciation. It just feels a bit they're just about to tell you how they only really like their earlier stuff when they were proper krautrock, before they went all electronic.

You're right. It would be a dead mans switch and therefore really safe.

If my wife lost consciousness at all while riding, the bike would safely come to a stop.

This is all gold - definitely doing. My wife is going to love what i've done to her bike!

I could run a cable loose with a calliper on it that could be gripped between the teeth, for no hands braking. Brake pads round the wrong way for enamel-friendly cushioning?

Yeah, i think i'll struggle to mount them to the bars...

I'm currently tweaking my wife's Dawes Civic runaround to make it look a little swankier (it's practically NOS and has so far responded well to a leather saddle and fewer shit reflectors).
I'd like to replace the wobbly weinmann brake levers with something a little nicer:
Any recommendations on an all-silver coloured flat bar brake lever that's simultaneously cheap and not crap?
Was thinking tektro fl750s but I'm struggling to find them in all silver.

Knife fight - winner takes all?

Mines off the front guard. If they're the same, you can have it for postage + the price of a posh bag of crisps? PM me

I notice the raceblade is missing a mount... Just like mine! I'd be well up for taking just the mount.

how much for the remaining bar tapes posted please?

Is that all the spd compatible stuff gone now?