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That very bike hangs on the wall in Pinarello's shop in Treviso. I seen it I have. It is lust.

Its frikkin obvious! Just ask yourself one question, punk. Did they use stainless steel for this??!

Huh, mufucker?! There's no further debate required. Using stainless would have been silly. Like the Ruskies.

Awfully sad. RIP

Bugger me that EWH is nice

Cheers TS :-)

Cheers. Intestines from sausagemaking.org.

I'm in yer granddad's club - I made Salami at home last year and am doing it again this weekend. You only need a smoker if you want .... smoked salami :) A very good air-cured salami sausage indeed can be made quite simply if you have the right conditions (my well-ventilated victorian cellar is very handy) and patience.

Fresh sausages can be eaten straight away but an overnight hanging firms them up nicely.
I'll let you know how these go down!

Looks like an expensive tank

One of these beasts could take on six sainsburys taste the difference in a wrestling match and win. Except maybe the toulouse. Fear the toulouse.

WARNING - RANDOM POST ABOUT SAUSAGES - MEATY PICS BELOW

I was as good as my word last night and made sausages for tonight's bonfire festivities. First, I got a load of meat. I just went for two bonelss supermarket shoulder joints and about half as much again in belly to up the fat content.

Then I skinned the meat, cut it into hunks and fed it to my new toy:

Not strictly necessary to own such a hardcore machine, but last time I did it all in one of those old fashioned hand grinders and it took me over an hour of solid grinding. Bollox to that - Ebay provided the remedy.

I split the meat into two different mixes - one herby, the other kinda appley, both with loadsa black pepper, some good ground up bread for a bit of "rusk" and the right amount of salt. Salt is your friend.

The next bit was a bit too involved and frankly slimy for me to get any good snaps. I used a hand-cranked sausage machine - think of a giant meaty piston, or a huge version of one of those things you use to do DIY kitchen sealant - to stuff lengths of natural casings (sheep gut to you and me, comes salted and you soak in warm water for half an hour) and twist them into sausages. Trick is to avoid air bubbles and get neat sausages of a consitent diameter. This bit is a goddamn art and a half!

Anyways, I ended up with this:

Four dozen pretty stout bangers - around five kilos all told. Total cost under £20. Hung them in the basement overnight to set a bit, and now they're in the fridge waiting for their glorious fate, where they will be cooked very slowly and carefully on a BBQ, then consumed with litres of homebrew cider. Friggin ell is this the good life in Brixton or what?

Ha! No I have yet to catch another... that was just a lucky day I guess :)

I'm making me very own sausages tonight for consumption tomorrow night along with copious amounts of cider while we burn a catholic effigy or two.

Lovely black Mercian conversion on Kennington Road a bit later...

Black deep V's and a skate lid? My mate Al

I ate a pidgeon a few weeks ago. Found it in Brixton. Delicious - and true dat.

You have PM

PM'd

Too small for me unfortunately

Otherwise you'd have just pulled the trigger straight away on the $2,000 BIN price ;-)

Buy it, then burn him

I weep for you too CJ ;-)

Think about what you want it for. Sharpness will be comparable with both the 50mm lenses when stopped down (say to f4 or smaller). Wide open, the 1.4 will be slightly softer, but have narrower DOF and nicer bokeh - and obviously an extra 7/10ths of a stop speed. For general usage the 1.8 will do you fine. Like Toby, I don't use a 50mm much - I usually have a 35mm lens on my film SLR and use an 85mm for portraiture.

I've never even thought of this problem before, let alone seen it discussed on the forum. Christ, what a can of worms! Well done for starting a thread on it.

Jimbilly I reckon. Swapped a wave on Borough High St this morning. Morning! Oh, and the American lass from BC, yesterday. Not Nhatt. And not girl with the curly hair. T'other one, sorry I don't know your name but you are v.helpful always, and possibly clocked me grinning like a Cheshire as I went past you on A3 in the Stockwell area. Oh, and Clefty last night again, we savoured one the rapidly disappearing light rides home from work... winter beckons.

Anyone clock Universally Challenged last night? One round of questions all on Le Mans cars. Naturally I cleaned up. Doofus College or whoever they were didn't do bad but slipped up on a McLaren F1 of all things, albeit shot from a slightly unusual angle. A couple of rounds later was all on classic guitar solos from the 70's. Geeklord University failed massively. I only had one blip there, forgetting the name of Ritchie Blackmore(the shame). I could hardly answer anything else, as per, but it was the most entertaining episode since the days of Gail Trimble.

pm coming re pursuit bars

Nice work. XA2 is nice camera. XA originale even better, and XA4 best of the bunch for its lovely wide lens. All more expensive than the plain old '2 though. Unfortunately the electromagnetic shutter release has gone on mine and I haven't got round to getting another yet.

Spotted: serious looking guy in a suit putting a shiny Evans Charge Plug Racer (complete with saddle dangling price tag) through its paces in the smooth shiny ped-infested playground that is More London.