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Dunno really, people who overreact about the 'annoying' factor of naive members - smacks of mis-placed officialdom to me. Questions which have already been asked are, after all, relativley easy to ignore.

I do not understand how you offer a condescending series of tips to 'nursery' members and then fill three pages with ramblings about chocolate bars and not explode from the absurd double standards bein displayed.

I'll have a 700 also please. Will check length tonight.

I don't get it, aren't you all hipsters? your very quick to distance yourselves...

no i suppose I understand the enthusiasm behind it but I still think a book about a chatroom is a bit lame (again, no offence). I'm all for tangible objects and all that, am a big fan of books, but think that organising a publication around an internet forum is a bit weak really. I think the 'intro to fixed' etc ideas above are stronger - less focussed on in-jokes and stuff that aint that funny if you werent watching them develop in real-time and more about riding bikes and all things connected. There are clearly some taleneted photo/design/graphics people here and I'm sure yuou could rustle up something I would like to have on my coffee table, but personally I don't think focussing on londonfgss.com is the way to go about this.

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i think this idea is wack. no offence, but why make a book of a forum? i know you've sort of explained it above but i'm still confused. can't u just ask vb to give u the entire forum on a dvd or something?

Tourists, the lot of you. Dalston's wicked. Never had anything bad happen to me in 24 years of habitation.

whatever happened to this? not that i donated any money, thankfully.

Jacksons are right disk brakes are pointless if you are using 700c tyres.
it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

is it purely for vanity or is there a particular reason you want to fit one? like you weigh 20stone and live at the bottom of a big hill or something?

Anyway, as is demonstrated here time and time again, when it comes to bikes all is vanity.

hah! what a load of shite...

incidently my 2ps : BC = good. But then I havnt had bad experiences in any bikeshops really.

for a good discussion of 'so' as a means of conveying a sense of in medias res read the introduction Seamus Heaney's 2003? trans. of Beowulf. He identifies it as a gaelic useage, replacing the anglo-saxon 'Hwaet'(sp?) which opens the poem. Once Tolkien enunciated this word so forcibly that he spat his false teeth out.

This is the one I think:

http://www.hackney-cyclists.org.uk/workshop.htm

It's pretty good really, keen bloke almost as knowledgable as sheldon (heresy) runs it and they do everything inc. wheelbuilding.

there used to be a forthnightly community bike workshop somewhere in hackney, run by some enthusiastic and freindly if slightly odd blokes. can't remember were it was though, some church somewhere. perhaps someone here knows.

BuffaloBill's organising a paypal thing for donations, i guess it'll be online tomo on MT. this would be a really cool thing to do for everyone who wants, effri's fucking wicked bloke and though i dont know chewy personally they've both had shitty tings and any help would be wicked. buy stickers, fundraising allys, straight donations, and god will rate you.

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i love you bill. we all do. (a tear falls, softly).

bugbears i mean. how convoluted can i be. what i mean is:

I agree that there is a tendency to hark on about the good old days, and am glad to have it confirmed that things are pretty much the same as they have ever been, curtsey of one with a clear-eyed (and historiologically sound) overview of the industry in question.

yeah i know, didnt mean to imply 'yeahyeah whatever Bill', just that i've read your stuff on the frequent apocalyptic predictions of the death of the industry. bugbear was in no way intended as derogative, they exist because they are true.

yeah bill for sure, I know this is one of your bugbears. Is it totally rose tinted lies then? so many old dudes claim to have comfortably made loadsamoney back in the day. also i reckon i do loads of runs for the prestige value "look they must be important, they courierd it in". Once, when my mate got sacked from a particularly nasty job, I courierd his boss a jiffy bag of shit.

are u one of the 500-a-week peeps then buddha, back when such amounts could buy a small house. not fair. damn the internet, though it hasnt killed us, it has made us weak.

wow. bare money. customise that shit. then give it to me.

yeah work is shit at the mo. but it always is innit. whoever heard of the goodtimes gotta be 30 by now. we all need next incomes, like me, but i aint telling any of u what it is cause its too good for words. mental and physical workouts combined.

billa are u 12 milla?

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