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Bod, if you want a sensible discussion, suggest you lose the attitude and just ride.

in all seriousness the problem is this:

a car driver does something stupid and dangerous. He hits another car, in the main, both cars are totalled, but everyone gets out and walks away.

a car driver does something stupid and dangerous. He hits a bike or motorcyclist. He walks away, cyclist / motorcyclist does not.

So, when another road user (bigger/faster/heavier) does something dangerous, it's not their own life they're gambling, it's the life of the (motor)cyclist.

It's not that they're wrong per se (though I would argue that the original poster found himself in a situation where the motorcyclist was wrong by deliberately attacking him) but that few other road users consider the fact that they're not really gambling their own lives but that of (motor)cyclists.

I would have thought you'd sympathise. If LY07UVR was a car, would you stick up for him?

+1

I would've thought motorcyclist would sympathise with the cyclists (as well as cyclists sympathise with motorcyclist), because of the greater risk of losing a life from a simple collision.

Because with cyclists, it's ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE who is in the wrong. Yawn.

for fuck sake, I don't give a fuck about motorist at all, bus, lorry car, motorbikes, what I do give a fuck is those fucker who go around abusing the law almost intentionally risking the life of cyclists.

there's a dramatic rise in cyclists in London, and a dramatic rise in inept cyclist who think running red light is ok regardless of oncoming traffic let alone went through cycling proficiency (is that spelt right?), so yes, there are cyclists who act as cunt, we know that, in fact this group actually acknowledge the amount of stupid cyclist.

why can't you acknowledge the amount of stupid motorcyclist like the idiot who intentionally risk a cyclist's life?

why is it so hard to admitted that the cunt who almost clipped the cyclist is in the wrong? why went all the way to diss the cyclist when you knew the motorist is in the wrong?

the original topic is aimed at that cunt who abused road safety, and now you have motorcycists coming in with an attitude as

Following his logic, I'm a Northener because my grandfather and grandmother from the North.

No wait! my last name is Spanish! therefore I am a Spaniard from the proud country of Spain! even thought the Scoble family move to England a thousand years ago.

yup, but only single speed, for now

I'm the one on a chrome bike with blue drop, shouldn't be hard to spot me.

Nah I thought it look cool, it's the best HHSB a bike company managed to released to be honest.

Martin Parr style, no?

Agreed. 800 is soon gone building from scratch. So... why not go OTP and get something for around £500 (plenty of options) and use the rest of your wad to spruce it up

£400, and then you have £400 slowly changing the part on your bike.

it's a better option, buy an OTP like a Bianchi Pista, if you like it, slowly change part, maybe get the full NJS compound, some Phil hubs, even respray the frame differently, etc.

or, just go splash out on the Fuji Obey (but remember, the fork isn't drilled for a brake, so make sure you get those clamp-on one).

the day when they make a chrome saddle we can all be happy.

they did that already;

can't seem to find black quills anywhere else though, any suggestions?

PCTFU?

(PC - powercoat).

I just realise how the number plate said "lover".

Another local fixed gear rider in the mist of Wimbledon eh?

"Front disc and rear V" - fail spot fail!

a bit too late to start deleting my post methinks.

No, you just haven't got comfortable spinning. It will come.

I'll concur, I used to ride on 16-52 for 8 months, and then 16-46 for 4 months.

now got a bike with 19-48, incredibly spinning (and incredibly easy to skid), but after about, 3 weeks in I got used to it.

why get the frame resprayed? looks great as it is, just add some more colours, maybe a rear wheel, cranks, tyre, not all of these just some

simply because ever since I've converted my first bike, I always wanted that kind of paint scheme, well, originally was this;

What I can do thought, is simply get a better rims in black, and hopefully if it look great, leave it at that (with a few compound changed to black like the stem).

the day when they make a chrome saddle we can all be happy.

I'm still sticking to it - this is how the finish product should look (the frame is going to get respray in a glossy light grey eventually, like couple or several months time).

Just paranoia mate, all you really need is simply common sense that it, a good common sense can save you some trouble and risk as well as carefully locking up the bike.

the area you really need to be careful in is the E postcode area.

that looks so much better without stickers.

exactly, and the blue bar made it look rather nice methinks.

my girlfriend kept complaining about the saddle "it's so tacky! it doesn't suit the bike at all!".

Finally I removed the sticker off the Bianchi, this is how my bike look now, not a lots different, but noticeably so than the first one, some of you should be able to spot me from the norms now;

Did anyone also notice how the disc-brake is called a V-brake according to the bike description?

Ooh that's a nice frame, it's such a pity that it's not an XC one otherwise I'd grab it.

CLONE TOOL FAIL

of course, but in retrospect, wouldn't it be hard to try and capture a perfect line like this in a photo? in track, cyclist do tend to be almost quite as close as this, but just not quite in perfect alignment like the advert suggested.

So what can they do? either spend hundred (or thousand) of pounds trying to capture the shot as much as they can until they got the perfect alignment? or simply use photoshop to make it easier to deliver the point of the ad?

It's an advert, they want to have what appear to be a perfect alignment of the two bike to make their point.

Clone Tool Fail it is, they could've simply use two photo of a different wheel and carefully align it, but the message of the advert? pass.

Exactly what I mean. Happens more at speed

I took the advice of quickly lifting the legs seemed to work well, also the advice of slighty lowering the saddle help.

thought it didn't stop when I drop down to the drop bar instead of the top to sprint faster against the wind.

seeing it's my first and last name the result isn't surprising when a photo of my girlfriend eating sushi at Bodhi came up first.

http://www.pedalmafia.com/bike_ups_img/402_1.jpg
http://www.pedalmafia.com/bike_ups_img/402_1.html

a simple change of saddle, stem and handlebar would make this bike into a bike porn, so if a simple change can fix this, does it still deserve the bike anti-porn tag?