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i shook my face in the bosom of academia once

i was asked to leave

i ride the "track vicar" flyer.

just added race blades for winter and added country parson chic and a ridiculous halo front wheel (white track hub and aero rim with black spokes) for added ummm... track vicar.

hey, it's a look.

actually it only really came about because some twat on an mtb t-boned me last night and turned my front wheel pringle-shaped. and so the "track vicar" aesthetic was born. i dig it anyway.

other non stock bits are, paintjob (rattlecan), soma major taylor bars, stubby stem (in top pic since replaced with stock one i must admit), cane creek lever, brooks swift and brooks bartape.

"My name is Dr Sexy..."

"i've diagnosed that you have sexy disease"

although my favourite one recently was the glastonbury one:

"everybody over to the advert stage, moby's on, oh yes!
and then it's groove armada with the theme from m&s
then it's a bloke that i don't really know, with a song from a phone campaign
then it's suggs with the iceland song
then moby's on again!"

woohoo! cool ending.

hmmmm, i figured bike theives had cottoned on to the brooks thing by now. i've taken to covering mine with a manky looking sainsbury's bag as it not only covers the fact that the saddle is nickable and protects it from rain; but it also adds that slightly indefinable "tartan blanket and tissue box on parcel shelf" factor that makes some cars look older, naffer and hopefully less nickable than others.

that's my theory anyway.

yeppity yep. half hour highlights podcast off itunes or listen again to the whole thing on the 6music site.

STEPHEN!

why don't you go and find an even shittier bike than hers and lock it to the shopper?

or you know,

don't

mark riley used to be the "lard" of "mark (radcliffe) and lard" fame on radio 1. they did an excellent studenty-targetted evening spot in the early-mid 90s followed by a stint of the more mainstream breakfast show and a long running afternoon slot too i think.

riley was one the original and longest serving members of the fall and is genuinely one of the most likeable and knowledgable people i've ever come across. totally self depreciating and clearly still very humbled to be able to do what he does.

hehehehe. my old mate jamie does this (the dismount>run>remount thing). i just used to roll my eyes and despair inwardly.

to be fair, he didn't do it across red lights. just pavements. oddly enough at london wall. you sure the guy wasn't on a bmx?

When the fuck do you all get to listen to the radio??

A get a bit of radio 4 before i peal my ass out of bed then onto the bike.

yeah same here. then on getting home crank up mark riley on 6 while chopping veg, having a beer or whatever. then after eating do the washing up to more of the hapless boy lard or gideon coe after that.

saturday mornings are all about adam and joe till it's time to go out and do whatever plus you've got russell howard and steven merchant on sundays if you're at home.

i don't have a fsking clue what's in the top 10 either as i haven't listened to radio 1 or watched saturday morning kids tv for about 15 years.

i always make time for the best bits of 6 music tho. i just love it man. i love that most of shows have their own very different agendas and identities (indie/folk/country/americana/rock/metal/reggae/funk/soul/unsigned/vinyl collecing/WHATEVER) and a totally free rein to play what they like within their own loose remits. i dig that they don't discriminate between great old stuff and great new stuff. i like that the audinece is small enough that if you contact any dj you'll usually get a response, if not on air at least a friendly email or text back from the djs. check out any one of lardy boy's playlists:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/marc_riley/tracklisting.shtml

i reckon riley is the only candidate even remotely worthy to be considered in the same ball park as peel. i've found so much new stuff though that show.

getting a digital radio a few years back totally rekindled my love with music again.

sorry to labour the point but lamb's repertoire of lame as fuck catchphrases, playlist of plodding mainstream indie, apparently boundless ignorance of the wider woirld of music and thouroughly offensive treatment of many interviewees just does not work on that station.

EDIT - guy garvey is great too. and bob dylan when they have his theme time radio hours. even lamacq isn't too bad (apart from his britpop obsession. LIVE IN THE NOW STEVE!) plus there's documentaries like the extended pet sounds one the other day... yep - thank fuck for 6 music basically. i'd long since given up on radio after the capital takeover of XFM, when after LBC went talk; but 6 got me back into radio in a big way. can't really imagine life without it now.

big "shabba" out to crispin glover.

good answer indeed.

sorry paul74 but i can't stand him. he may be alright in real life but on air he's he's ignornat, arrogant and hugely irritating. some people find him funny but not this punter. he's the polar opposite of knowlegdable, humble and entirely charming mark riley and gideon coe. he appears to know or care very little about music and has the wit and sophistication of a six year old making fart noises.

did you hear the clip of him slagging off ray davies? shudder

i have signed the petition.

he's a tumbling tumbling dickweed

i recently resolved to get involved in some more rides and i'd like to do this... in theory. but having struggled up highgate west hill for the first time recently i'm pretty sure that i would be physically incapable of doing this route. good luck tonight you daft bastards.

yeah, today was one of those days. much anger I sensed on the roads..

weirdly i thought yesterday was grrreat. it was cool and dry and there was virtually no wind. there was a lot of traffic but i had no run-ins with twats and i didn't hit a single read light between kilburn and parliament sq. it was flowy and spinny and fun.

today was muggy sweaty and moist but no less fun for it. i'm sure someone will try and kill me before the end of the week tho.

[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"Alcohol is the answer. What was the question?"[/FONT][/SIZE]
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cut/paste fail

i've been consistantly hungover or drunk for about a week now.

arsegrief like you would not believe

just bought 'put me back on my bike' by and 'dirk gently's holistic detective agency'.

I agree, he has the charisma of a lettuce and really comes across as a crackpot labcoat.

actually i agree with 99% of what he says and i don't think he's a crackpot at all. he's the polar opposite in fact. he might seem vaguely nutty because he's just passionate about his cause of promoting, reason, informed choice and scientific skepticism etc. i just don't think he's very likable as a personality.

whatever you do, don't read the mosque thread!

i started with that yesterday. it was still quite sweet when i got bored with it somewhere on the second page. i'm guessing it decends into a theological/cultural bunfight yes? i may pass on that. i'm not big on arguing about religion on the internet.

having said that, i finished the god delusion this morning. i enjoyed it overall. but then i am an atheist/humanist/rationalist anyway so it was... ummm...the opposite of preaching to the converted. what would that be? questioning the skeptic? i enjoyed his boldness and unapologetic stance in defence of science, but i think he's ultimately not likeable enough as writer, speaker or debater (is that a word?) to reach out to a wider majority. shame really.

watched heart of gold on friday night to get warmed up for reading shaky.

you know how sometimes people post something along the lines of that so-and-so comment was so funny they spat (drink of choice) all over their screen?

well,

for no reason at al, i just posted what i posted, sta down with a nice fresh cup of sober-me-up midnight english breakfast, raised it to my lips and did a sort of involuntary spasm/cough thing and totally fucking soaked my laptop with tea.

bummer.

and my pizza burned while i was mopping it up.

bummer squared.

hic

Good idea. Sherlock Holmes short stories. Just what every growing boy needs.

bang on. just about to get into all of these. read baskervilles last year and have been hankering after the complete works evere since.

just as soon as i've finished dawkins (god delusion), shakey (neil young biog) and errr... something else. can't rememmber. pissed right now.

my advice; get obsessed with umberto ecco. you'll never be stuck for something to read again. start with name of the rose and go from there.

if baudolino, foucault and island don't make you vibrate with happiness and fear then you're dead inside.

the mysterious flame of queen doo dah is self indulgent, boring and shit tho...

so says i

Her name's anna, she's on my course. She's such a cool person, really smart! Also the singer in my 'band'. She's swedish, but she did live in Italy for a few years.

The bike used to be edscoble's. :)

spotted her in kilburn a while back. when's yr "band" playing then?

hehe

what about ironic moustache bars?

nope never actually hit the deck due to clipless fail.

came close a couple of times when i first started with them. have had more near-accidents as a result of coming unclipped when sprinting, braking or skidding.

Yeah I know. I'm getting sick to death of the sound of sirens...

hehehe.

ah well.

as it seemed there was no chance of getting out of the sterotyping/sweeping generalisation thing when it comes to classifying other road users i suppose i thought i'd try and at least make a positive comment about one of those groups.

sod's law then that i got cut up and ended up arguing with a bus driver this morning.

i don't think that all bus drivers are wankers now. i don't think they're all great either. i still maintain that of all the other broadly defined groups of london road users that they're among the most considerate and aware of cyclists. the stats seem to back that up.

feel free to keep posting annecdotal evidence as to why your bad experience with a bus proves me wrong .

oh and i was one of the original 6 rickshaw riders in london who started the plague that now befouls the streets of soho. in fact, my name is even on the piece of legistaltion that made the whole thing legal. hahaha.