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It seems that I'm so much of a hipster, some friends of mine (www.myspace.com/apronband) wrote a song about it (Tom's Got A Blackberry).

"Ranks bands by obscurity" "Plays in a bike polo league" - pwn3d.

I'd let the song disappear into obscurity, but I really like it.

If you want. I'll need to play a bit pre-match to get used to the new polo bike.

also asks whether golden grahams are better than cinammon grahams.

A bit like asking if it's more fun dislocating your right shoulder or your left shoulder.

I think it's called "stupid bike stuff", which is responsible for the most heinous crime of preventing me from making her tea.

Chris was on the mistress - sorry model - hunt last night. He was trying to get random women to come to his "studio", I was impressed that he didn't get arrested.

Never really rated Screeching Weasel (although "Cool Kids" was a good song).

What about 12pm? Harry has stuff on early afternoon, so 12pm is about the latest we can manage.

HTFU, ladies.

Definitely needs cut down risers or dildo bar.

Ooh ooh - pursuit bars.

Has anyone had the misfortune to watch the Peaches Geldof attempts to Publish a magazine show on MTV? - if you look anything like the people in this, you are a hipster and quite possibly a cunt:

http://www.mtv.co.uk/overdrive/id/107971

In what circumstances might these people not be cunts?

I've said this before, and I'll say it now. One of the most common mistakes people made when The Office came out is that they thought it was a documentry. When Nathan Barley came out, the reverse was true.

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IF you don't mind what they are of, I've got loads I can give you. People may assume that you like the band "Republica" though...

Do you ever come past North polo? If so give me a shout and I'll try and have some on me.

That's the brown ("honey") tape.

Mobidogs has first bid. PM me if you are still interested.

Art editor of Men's Health is a cunt though. A big beardy cunt.

FYI, the saddle and the bar tape aren't the same colour (saddle is dark brown, bar tape light). SpencerWells you've been PM'd - let me know that you're cool with this.

The Mercian is not for sale. Got plenty of inverse shims though.

Will there be a trip over to the Dublin grass polo next year?

Colnago, yes the noodles are available. I can post but they are such an awkward shape.

Sol, the t-shirts aren't new, but they've probably only be worn once or twice each. 80 t-shirts means that overly small ones didn't really make the rotation.

Had a bike shop fail today. Dude comes into Evans Covent Garden to get a puncture fixed because he didn't know how to. Starts talking shit about people who ride fixed in Hackney and what he is going to spend his Cyclescheme voucher on. Four fold fail:

1. If you can't fix a puncture (not won't, can't) you have no right to diss any cycling subculture. I do it, but I can fix my bikes

2. What sort of person would spend £1,000 on a bike (albeit through Cyclescheme) when their previous interest in bikes wasn't enough to make them learn to change an inner tube? I learnt at about the age of 12.

3. It's ridiculous to take the piss out of fakengers when you a) work for Adidas b) in Covent Garden and c) live in London Fields

4. He was ginger.

It's the cycling equivalent of some chav sayng that Nickelback are better than The Melvins. Shouldn't have wound me up, but it did. Wanker.

Anyway, if you see some ginger runt on a Maxlight going between Covent Garden and Hackney, feel free to ask him how to change a puncture. Perhaps ask him if the £15 that Evans probably charged him was good value.

They're going to be in for a surprise if they try and cycle that around, given that I can't imagine it goes too fast on the flat/up hills (compared to track bikes, at least).

I've got your number, I'll give you a call if I see it around Dalston.

OK I'm confused, what's left here?

Can I take the brown bar tape and the Paul's lever if it's still available?

Thankyou!

Definitely not the Paul brake lever!

The buyer of the bars no longer wants them, so the remaining items are:

Bars

BB spindle

Charities have a greater fiduciary burden than LLCs, at least that's my impression, after having looked into the question when I was with the London Bicycle Messenger Association.

Running a charity is more complex, this is true, but there are benefits to this. Namely that you can reclaim Gift Aid (+28% on donations) and you don't have to worry about corporation tax (assuming you're playing by the rules). Whether or not the extra effort is worth it will be discussed at some point.

Also, as the LCEF is NOT a registered charity, any polo charity would not be able to give funds to it.

I discussed this with one of the technical bods at work and they said that relief of poverty is a genuine charitable activity. If LCEF came to us and said "so and so got hit by a car, he lives in a squat, has no savings and for whatever reason can't go on the dole" we could give him a bit of money - although someone would have to be in a bad way for us to be able to do that.

If we want to think about it a bit more seriously, I'll pick the brains of someone in the Charities department at work.

Set it up as a charity? Not sure about that. That would mean that none of the members of the charity would be able to benefit from the activities of the charity, and also would require significant fiduciary commitment compared to say, a limited liability company or even a sporting association or club.

Also, are you talking about the promoting organisation for a London bid, or the league, or the whole London polo thing?

I was thinking about promoting bike polo in general, although in reality it would probably just be London events that would be the initial focus. I'd like there to be a fairly broad remit as it would avoid problems later if Oxford (say) decided to put on a tournament.

Sports clubs can be set up as charitable organisations (most of England's local rugby clubs, etc, are probably charities) and this is what I was leaning towards. Limited liability (in the form of a company) might not be that great an idea, as directors would still have a fiduciary dury PLUS they'd have start filling out Tax Returns, etc. However, the charity could own 100% of the shares, in - say - Polo championships 2009 (as a special purpose vehicle) if necessary.

The charity organisers would benefit from it in the same way that the commitee of the local rugby club would - by playing in games, etc. There was never any question of distributing the money to London's polo players, although there might be a way to chanel any surplus funds to the London Courier Emergency Fund, the restoration of the Herne Hill bikes or other worthy causes.

I'm playing Roxy on Sunday morning, so perhaps a few people would like to come along and discuss boring things like the structure of the bid and how serious we want to be about all of this.

OK, so the dibs are:

Nosferatu for the bars and lever

Dixon for the black tape

Eyebrows for the stem (posting is cool) - here are close ups of the marks, just let me know that you're still interested http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/tomblessington/BikeStuffForSale?authkey=iElfd_yBfyA#5260035970940964274 and http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/tomblessington/BikeStuffForSale?authkey=iElfd_yBfyA#5260035972103503234

I need to check that the saddle and tape are the same shade of brown as it seems the bar tape can be light or dark brown. Depending on whether I can post them at work for no cost to myself, SpencerWells gets those.

Toby Price, I think the bolt is standard. It's off the back of a Filmore if you can nip into a bike shop and have a look.

Ved for the mudguards

Kelvin for the hoods (I will post)

Jonty Ponty for the Keirin brake

Just leaves the Sugino spindle and some t-shirts, and here is another link for the t-shirts (I tried to imbed a slide show, but it just didn't happen). http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/tomblessington/TShirts?authkey=anG_343RDho#

Have a word with Phasergun Alex, the mechanic at Cavendish. He has a lovely olive green Raleigh, he's a nice guy and it's worth an ask.

About three days (literalist answer) or four years (more sensible answer). I lived in the Stratford region from 1980-1998, 2002-2004. You know Stratford people?

Stratford -Upon-Avon, but currently London. so I think that I'm going to gate crash the secret Shacklewell Lane house party.