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I woke up this morning to find I'd been accepted for One & Other, a.k.a. that thing in Trafalgar Square where people are doing daft stuff in front of hundreds of tourists.

I had vague thoughts about what I'd do, but didn't think I would be given a place. Now I have to get something sorted. I had thought about doing something to promote cycling, or to highlight a cycling-related issue.

One thought was to take a ghost bike up there, and dress in white, with a t-shirt with the ghost bike website address on it. Is that a bit morbid?

Another thought was to trackstand for an hour, just for the hell of it. Not sure if they'll let me do that.

Help!

I'm coming by later today. Hoping to see some old faces, but also doing a blog post for the Guardian Bike Blog. Anyone on a team who has a couple of minutes to chat, give me a text; 07974 918855

I had chorizo today, in the boss' car. No spillages to report. Phone still screwed...

Look, holding my hands up here... I was flaky as hell about this. Sorry if you PM'd me and got no response. I was starting a new job at the time, and time got away from me.

Anyway..... I'm coming to the big smoke tomorrow to see the polo and pick up a new bike. If anyone wanted this, I could bring it. The bars are gone, and the seat post has been replaced. It was apparently a bastard to get the old one out and the new one in, but it is in, and not moving, by all accounts (it's been ridden by a friend, so I don't know much about it).

If someone wanted to make an offer, then go ahead - just drop it in here, auction style. You'll have to pick it up from Liverpool Street tomorrow when I get in at about half one.

Like I said, I think everything is OK with it, but I have no time to check it out, and it won't be rideable home unless you bring bars and cables.

I know this isn't ideal, but it's all I can do. If nobody is interested then it's going in the garage for the next 40 years....

BTW - Hello, Stelle! Long time no see. I've seen nobody from this forum since I was dragged away from London by work 9 months ago.

I'm writing about bikes today, anyway. I spent the day at Norfolk police HQ. A charity manager is riding to every force HQ in England, Scotland and Wales to pick up donation cheques. Nice idea, but it was a little farcical. Everyone in the building with anything resembling a bike was dragged out for a photoshoot. One and a half hours in the sun waiting for a quick chat with the bloke doing it. Nice guy, hope he gets round OK.

Seems that you have enough offers, but if they all get wiped out at a copywriting convention, let me know.

I've thought for a long time now that if a copmany was to launch a groupset with 2-3 gears it would be massively successful. Not a Sturmey Archer thing, but something as efficient as a road gruppo, but very, very simple and light. I'd buy one.

Who hasn't?

How did they deal with chain tension, Ed?

carbon steerers rule!

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You lot are dim if you think I'm sticking around on this thread. I'm glowing.

Fixed

I'm coming out of the closet. It wasn't that bad.

There is an SS version called the Sport for £250.

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/specialized/centrum-sport-2008-hybrid-bike-ec001472

Look on Froogle, I just found it for £199.99. That's a bargain. Very tempted to get one for offroad jaunts and slowly upgrade bits as I snap them off...

That's just the ticket.

I don't like them, but I want my whole body to glow like that at night so that I'm not crushed by a car and left twitching in the Norfolk countryside.

Sturmey Archer FTW. Three gears, loads of range for a flat town, and zero maintainance.

He either won't offroad regularly, or he'll get really into it. In the first case, rent a bike, second case, buy a seperate bike.

I bought a Dawes Haarlem that has done thousands of miles, and I did my first ever repair on it this month.

Biddle I think.

Very good price, if I remember correctly.

Can you leave your clothes at work?

There are no showers, so I have to get to town, leave the bike at the office, walk to the swimming pool, get showered/changed there and walk back.

I can't leave stuff at the pool, though, so I have to bring my cycling gear to the office and hang it out there.

It's worse than that. When I got to the office (third day), I set the alarm off. This is in a tiny village, and everyone came past to see a new face - probably a robber - breaking into the local newspaper.

Update: Sod it, I've had a coffe and my trousers are almost dry. I'm OK.

I had a long commute in the rain today, and a puncture, and when I got to work my bag had leaked and soaked my suit trousers. Glad you're having fun, though.

The baton passes, though...

Soon I, too, will not care.

...when it was OK to ask for advice?

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread590.html

Just wanted to say thanks, a couple of years on, for everyone who helped me out with mine.

There is a very rare bacteria that lives inside Fuji Tracks, which prevents them from rusting. You should occasionally pop out the seat tube and dollop in some yoghurt to keep them going.