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haha next ride = coffee shop crawl?

we'd be wired by the end of it!

Related to events in Chicago?

LOL Scott - the grim North is having an adverse effect on you. Come south and ponce!

I have a bialetti stove top and don't ever get a satisfying crema. Is it because I'm using ground coffee rather than grinding it myself?

I also find it's very easy to boil the coffee if not taken off the stove immediately.

BringMeMyFix Actually, I prefer eating chocolate-covered coffee beans. I'm considering them as on-the-bike sustenance.
Dude, after the initial nice taste, it's like eating dirt/sand.

OK so most threads derail pretty quick (much to the annoyance of Thor, despite the fact that it draws attention away from his mate's shit bikes). One of the OT subjects that keeps cropping up is the perfect cup of coffee. As my stovetop is bubbling away in the kitchen, I thought I would give a place where this subject could flourish, ON topic. So:

What's the best ground coffee? Beans?

Where can you get a decent cup? (More difficult than it should be)

Which coffee makers are best? (we're moving and a bigger kitchen means I can get a machine - budget has been signed off by g/f up to £300)

Best way of serving?

Etc.

fatbloke on the off-road track at Richmond Park away from Roehampton Gate - I was spinning out in the opposite direction on the DeKerf I bought off Scott.
You trying to keep out of the wind? ;o)
3 laps of RP (anti clockwise til I die) was HARD yesterday!

LFGSS: Grupetto is older and doesn't number any E.London urchins amongst its ranks.

Yeah and he's SUCH a drinker!

how's the hangover fatboy?

haha they've been taking lessons of tony dafoney

an aside: last night VB and I were trading tales of Rapha clothing falling apart - far more than there should have been given the price they charge...

^^^ Ignore him, he's pissed ;o)

...But I like your reasoning. (And, yes I'm a cock) ;o)

Skullhead snowboarders are utter cocks

You are in the unenviable position of agreeing with Jeremy Clarkson
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article3422316.ece

a. skate - haven't been for over 2 years but used to, loads.
b. BMX - not since E.T. was on at the cinema
c. snowboard - hell yeah but not as much as you - bastard!
d. ride bikes anyway - closet roadie
e. like punk rock music? - like all music (what's punk rock? Pixies? Big Black? Broad spectrum methinks)

But where are the vests? I'm no longer interested.

A good article, thanks for flagging it Runcible.

There does seem to be a real vested interest in the status quo - I wonder how much the manufacturers of street barriers / red lights etc. spend lobbying government and producing research to suggest councils buy more from them?

Examples (off the top of my head) for the myopic approach to roads are:

• Feb/Mar roadworks in London - am I overly cynical or are minor and cosmetic improvements ALWAYS made at the end of the tax year? Protect those budgets boys!

• Manhole covers: clearly fucking lethal for bikes & motorbikes. The reason why there's never been any innovation to improve them? Roads are the councils responsibility, drains are the water boards'. So the interface between the two (manhole covers to you & me) fall into a no man's land. Neither is willing to take responsibility for fear of the cost it will incur. (Just imagine how much nicer they'd be to cycle on if you just griptaped the fuckers!).

I think High St Ken is better than it was (it's the fucking roadworks slowing you down eeehhhh) and agree that putting responsibility for actions back in the hands of the road user is good for everyone. How often do you curse the ipod listening, wrong way looking, jaywalking ped that feels they have the god given right to do what they like because they've been herded to a designated crossing point?

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Perhaps we should have a 'hug a motorcyclist day' or summat?

What speed / size / whatever would you have to be to ride clean through a lollipop sign?

CRASH

What was that? The sound of Hippy falling off the wagon.

Oof.

(i said this in the other thread but...)

...apparently there's a picture of a bike on there somewhere

^^ Apparently there's a picture of a bike on there somewhere...

My great uncle (quite a decent roleur on all accounts) had a Youngs tourer. My dad inheirited it, took it back to them and asked if it was worth salvaging. They creamed themselves over it - did pretty extensive work on the seat tube (to free seatpost), beautiful repair job on the jug work and a very good respray. This was about 15 years ago tho. It cost about c.£50 (prob about the same as today given inflation).

I'd say that based on my gt uncle's general enthusiasm for cycling (decent level club rider but not made of money) it'd be a pretty good frame (his was 531 if that's anything to go by).

My story has a sad ending, since when I went to get the bike from my dad's garage, he'd given it away to the jumble some years ago without asking me if I had a use for it :o(

Wayne is 'looking after' a 32h DT Swiss black machined rim for me. Might that be of interest (if Wayne's got no use for it?).