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mate, its in camden. ya daft monkey (NW1) can't remember more than that sorry.

Hey i thought that as long as your rear light was flashing, you didnt need a front one? I swear it said that on the packaging my rear cateye came with. I want some of those strap on LEDs that Yang and Htay have!

Haha he looks like he's in a reasonable amount of pain there at the end

No worries hippy, Nobody even in Islington knew anything about this pub. Which leads me to think that it may not be in Islington after all... haha

Yeah, a magnet wouldn't work on an aluminium bike, so they must be relatively clued up on track bikes. I wonder how they mark aluminium bikes...

Something a bit odd happened in brick lane this Wednesday after (my rather pathetic attempt at) polo. Was sitting in the bar right at the top of brick lane (on the right hand side) with my bike chained to 2 lamp posts in my line of site. This old guy came up to it, started checking it out, then lifted it up (at this point i bolted to the door clenching my fists). By the time I was right next to him he was making some suspicious arm gestures (golf swing?) to what appeared to be a window on the top floor of a building across bethnal green road, to the left of the street that the polo court is on. I dropped my bag on the floor and curtly told him to piss off, got a good look at his face in the process. While i was unlocking my bike I noticed half a magnet on the top tube. Cycled home feeling pretty angry.

I can only assume that

  a) this guy (wearing a check blue shirt, blue jeans, heavy (fat) build, greying/thinning/shortish mousy brown hair, bright blue eyes (and with a squint)) had marked my bike with the magnet for someone else to come along and steal it(I had 2 locks on it, mini kryptonite and an abus cable lock);

and b) The people who would come along with bolt cutters etc were in the building across the street.

Either that or he was just a crazy guy, but I somehow don't think so.

I think/hope that this of some use to everyone here. I am considering parking my bike within easy reach and in clear view somewhere else in brick lane and seeing if I catch the same guy at it again! (Although that's sort of playing with fire i guess.)

Not sure if my name was down for this anyway, but I'm not sure if i can make it... Plus I'd have to be scrounging drinks all night anyway due to missing wallet.

Guys... I have just ridden around islington/caledonian road for about 4 or 5 hours...

I reckon the pub we went to was a ghost pub!

Of course it'd help if i knew the name of the pub, the name of the street the pub was on, the name of a street near the pub, or even the general area the pub was in...

Help ma3k or johnny!

By the way thanks for that yang, also I appear to have a working internet connection at least for the moment!

This guy played Francesco Moser in the film "The Flying Scotsman" about Graeme Obree....on the rollapaluza rig at the Freewheel.
He also started racing at HH this year.

We did four hours track time with about 40 riders, you'll need a coach, we use one coach and three assisitants (non-qualified, experienced track racers)

kilgore_trout [quote]MrSmith i am a mtb'er

looking at this really quickly i thought it was an abbreviation for masturbater.

just thought i'd share.[/quote]

that's what i meant, isn't everyone on here? :-)

lpg maybe mtbers who want something a little quicker for commuting ...

i am a mtb'er, used to use my ss on the road but wanted something a little quicker for commuting so i brought a pista :-)

hybrids remind me of those faux off roaders that sit a bit higher than cars and have a bit more plastic on them, ridiculous things. if you want to drive off-road? get a 4x4 with knobbly tyres, drive around town? get a smart car.
if the london wrongster is the coldplay of fixed those roadrat things are james blunt personified.

disk brakes are more efficient but my experience of riding with slicks and disks is that the power is useless when dealing with the limited tyre grip in the wet it's just too easy to lock-up or modulate your braking, my formula oro's were perfect for mtb'ing in the alps but i'll stick to dura-ace for the road.

lpg, don't take it personal like, it's just that in this instance i disagree with everything you say :-)

i think people choose rims/wheels more on aesthetics than performance, i would rather have open-pros than deep-v's the aero performance means nothing to me i just want a good strong lightweight rim with good ride 'feel' , i don't want a rim that reminds me of those spinning chrome hubcabs on drugdealers girlfriends cars.

Fixie shoppers only... Did I forget to mention that?
Still no reply from El Presidente at HH...
How many hours are we gonna need, Winston? Full day? How many hours is that?
Drunk again... Totally not gonna organise this on my ownsome...

these are good.

and if you do see a girl on a bike, please do the following:

1. stop
   
2. talk
   
3. ask her out
   
4. avoid obsessing about it on the interweb
   

i wish i could, late working

i love family guy!
my god i am using exclamation marks like a man who likes posting semi nude photos of himself after buying a 2nd hand dolan.
hee hee.

There's a wicked picture of Mr Manning (a big cycling fan) in lycra astride a bike...starting a kid's race or something....a gold star to anyone who can track it down.

ok, give me an hour or so...

jesus christ a girl on a bike! Wow!

If this is what happens every time a girl on a bike is seen, I'd hate to see a Londonfgss trip to Holland.....my god!

By the way what is an "intersection" is it "like" a junction / crossroads?

i find that my bike is better in this sort of weather.
Easier to control.
And skid, etc.

Vice works, but make sure you wrap sprocket in old chain....you have to tighten the vice quite tight and if you don't do that some of those cheapo sprockets teeth will just bend under the force of the vice....I know I've done it1

http://www.whatshouldiputonthefence.com/

balls.