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Cant wait to see piccies of scott new stuff. I love my rosie and if scott is making an even better version of a small hip pouch, as he's mentioned, I'm deffo interested

Short film on AOL about ghost bikes.Apologies if this is a repost (did a quick utfs but could't see anything)

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/ghost_bike/?ncid=webmail

Any way of securing pedals? I always feel confident with my secured seat/post/wheel etc but not pedals. Suppose I could put some spare Aliums in my toolbag. Depressing times.

You can secure every component on your bike with this system but it's not available just yet and I bet it will be expensive too

http://atomic22.co.uk/index.html#nogo

I've been experiencing mid/lower back pain, and often neck pain, on and off my bike for a while now. I've been seeing a physio/doing pilates exercises for the past few weeks and it's beginning to get a bit better. I basically have tight thigh muscles, rounded upper back, slumped lower back, and a twisted pelvis (when standing), and amongst the various stretches and exercises I've been doing most days, I'm using a foam roller on my thigh/mid-back.

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Don't forget your calves.

I have a permanent back injury that i pick up working with disabled people. Like you I keep on top of it by doing stetches and strengthing excercises (although I can sometimes strain my back and then t takes me six weeks to get it back in shape again :( .

I've seem to natrually have quite tight calves and have noticed that this can affect my back problems. So i make sure i stretch my calves daily too, using this technique

http://sanfranciscocrossfit.blogspot.com/2008/11/your-calves-are-tight-bro.html

I also find acupressure/trigger point release can help too. Get a tennis ball/cricket ball (I use a cricket ball as tennis balls split after a while), lie on the floor and put the ball under you calf. Move it around looking for knots and tension points. You'll know when you've found one - the tighter the knot, the more the pain! Leave the ball there for about 30-60 seconds and continue looking for more. Do do this trigger point realase for you glutes too which i find can also get quite knotty/can cause an increase in back tension

I have found that if you stretch your calves, hamstrings and quads, basically all my leg muscles, it seems to have a really positive effect on my back problems.

Here's a partically effective quad stretch from the same blogs as above. You'll know is so effective cuz it's so painful :)

http://sanfranciscocrossfit.blogspot.com/2008/12/doode-wheres-my-quads.html

Good luck

GA2G - what say you re this lock?

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/accessories/locks/product/abus-granit-x-plus-54-300-39850

While not being GA2G, It's an excellent lock. Look on page one, it gets rated as a primary lock (I have one)

How desperate? You can have mine for £1000. Collectors item, it is. Only one not so careful owner

If Labour are putting Ken up we have rto resign ourselves to four more years of Boris.

Her utterances are still illconceived and she is still a self publicist with a significant profile.

Don't get me started on her more general illconceived views.

Yup. She's just one in a long line of politicians who bang on about how much tougher on crime/criminals than they are than their oppostition - "So vote for me!" I think most sane people can sniff out how bonkers/self publicising she is so I don't think she'll get near the levers of power any time soon

Doesn't detract from my views on the utterances on Ms Casey.

Nothing to worry about then. She'll never get near the Mayorship if Labour are still putting Ken up

Louise Casey wants to be the Labour candidate for Mayor of London.

I thought Ken was the Labour candidate for mayor (along with oona king, who ken beat)?

As far a bebops are concerned, when i was looking at pedals with shit loads of float, i was considering either bebops or speedplay frogs. When i was reading around about bepops one of the few downsides is that you might have to do some shoe surgery.

"The cleat is large, which is good. It tends not to quite fit in the 'standard' cut out for a SPD cleat that you see in most bike shoes (the treaded ones for those of us who actually walk about a little bit. You need a half hour with an exacto knife to cut away at the edges of the insert hole a little bit. And because of that low clearance, you may need to cut away a little 'path' in your shoe's tread for the spindle too. Not a bad thing, and not hard."

I went for frogs in the end due to the availablity (especially of cleats)

hello every1. I need some help with a strange bolt I've got on the back of my bike. I don't know where to find the key to remove it due to it's strange shape. Any1 knows the name of it so I can buy it on ebay? i know I should have posted a new thread but the system says I cannot.
thanks for your help.
http://yfrog.com/g0p142101241010largej
http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/5446/p142101241010large.jpg

And why, pray, do you not have the key to your "strange bolt", if that's not a rude question

Jeez, think I need my eyes tested or something today. :)

Clearly you feel that I should research u-locks more carefully.

Not at all. As you point out, you say brute not brute mini (my misreading mistake) . Just pickin you brains on why you rate (or dont) the brute/brute mini series of locks as they dont appear on the original list on page one :0)

Brute lock being defeated in the theft of any forumenger's bike.

Mightn't this be because they don't appear to be available in the UK?

You know you want one!

Do OnGuard sell their Mini U-Locks here now? I've looked for them before, and only found them in the States.
Where are they sold? I'd be quite interested in the Brute Mini, and not the Bulldog Mini.

Just out of interest why are you interested in this? Isn't it the equivalent of a Krypto fug mini?

Escaped posh Richard Curtis character turned up at 11.20 (I'd been hanging around in pubs since 9 on the offchance someone came back) and said she was terribly sorry.

I'd arranged for tools and more locks to come in a cab (to strip bike down to nothing except frame and rear wheel for an overnight stay) and lock up the wheels etc with more locks until whoever it was had hopefully gone by morning.

She paid me the £20 that had cost. Faith in humanity restored. Though not people's stupidity (she said this had happened before)

Well done. She's lucky it wasn't my bike. She'd of returned to find her bike chopped in half

Aahh! Thats not the mini is it

Do OnGuard sell their Mini U-Locks here now? I've looked for them before, and only found them in the States.
Where are they sold? I'd be quite interested in the Brute Mini, and not the Bulldog Mini.

Amazon

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Onguard-Brute-Shackle-Lock-111mmx202mm/dp/B0010VLO4E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288299603&sr=1-1"]Onguard Brute Shackle Lock 111mmx202mm: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Leisure[/ame]

Both beer and cider festival

What's the story with the Onguard Brute keys?

I think there only like 12 different keys

I'm new here but my boyfriend is on here loads so hoping you can help - he just went to unlock his bike in clerkenwell and someone's locked there bike to his... he's worried about leaving it there in case it's gone by tomorrow so is just hanging around but no sign of the other owner as yet. Any suggestions? It's 930pm so no bike shops open; oh the other bike looks like a loved nice dutch sit up with baskets on front and back he says. Hopefully not a theif trick.. any help appreciated!

I'd err on the side of caution and assume this is a thiefs trick. If anyone locked a bike to my bike, I'd quite happily saw through another bike to free mine, let alone a lock.

Basically buy the best locks you can afford to. Get a decent primary lock, lsomething like a Krypto new york 3000 or Abus Granite X plus 54 for the back wheel and frame and a krypto evolution mini U lock for the front wheel

Kentish Drovers of Peckham fame?

Indeedy. I was on my way hope from my chriropractor via the library and the big sign saying £1.89 per festival pint lured me in

Popped into the kentish drovers (I know, I know) to try out some of the 'spoons beer festival. I have a pint of double expresso stout. It was probably the most disgusting stout i've tried to date. It tasted like cold, bad coffee and it was flat too. Couldn't finish the pint