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Thinking about it... it doesn't matter. The scheme has kickstarted a cycling movement and rejuvenated retail and development around cycling. There's no reason to expect that once it's fulfilled those objectives that it should continue to run as a tax-free subsidy. Cycling should now have it's own momentum to keep itself growing. If it capitulates because of a removal of subsidy it was a pretty weak movement.

That's true but I don't think people (or me at least) are looking at the bigger picture in that way - I'm just annoyed that I've signed up for something I thought was going down one way, and it turns out that actually it might end up something totally different.

All in the game tho' baby.

Whoah, my first spots and they're within 12 hours of each other. Those caps are awesome. :D

BleakReference on Bishopsgate yesterday, was wearing the lfgss cap, so I said hi, then realised we used to work at the same place, small world innit

C&W sends its regards!

And bleak reference on london bridge yesterday with LFGSS
and bleak reference on Kingsland road this morning with another cap
(same tatoo though)

Good to meet you sir and see your lo-pro STICHA... nice

Likewise, maybe catch you at the polo. Badass.

This can't affect people who have already signed up can it? That'd be a changing of the terms and conditions, no?

Stacy Peralta/Bomb the Bass collab video.

Mate of mine had that back in the days. Fucking sweet.

That's fucking smart. Fine work, SoBi.

Duncan's waiting list is surprisingly good - about six months when I checked last. That's probably changing now, he's becoming hipper.

Its probably that one with the moustache. Hipster cunt.

Internet celebrity tbh.

Outside outside. Didn't know about the parking out back, it used to be filled with surly mechanics when I used to go back in the days.

Stupid parking.

I'm just waiting on my cyclescheme cheque to come through so I can spend a happy £1000 in BLB. I will of course whine on this thread if it all goes horribly wrong.

Posting as promised. While parked outside BLB today some toerag stole my bar ends.

NOW I HATE BLB. (>_<)

got it!

Got a set of these, really nice cranks for the price.

nah, you have a lot of really good input.
i need some advice on ear stretching:
i love them, and if i could i would have rather large lobes, but i cant.
of course, everyones ears heal differently but is there a specific size that when you pass it, it just wont heal back?

It's more about age tbh. My ears were stretched out to about two and a half inches at their biggest, that was for a good two years. I let 'em down before I hit 30 and I've got them down to 10mm now - probably about as good as it's going to get.

On the other hand I know people who've had their ears stretched out to an inch or two but they left it late to stretch 'em down again and now they're stuck with their inch or two.

I would back up Lileth's advice on not jumping more than two mm at a time, particularly not when you're starting out. Gotta say I'm pretty oldschool on this stuff and the way we used to do it back in the days was slow application of electrical tape and no-one suffered blowouts. These days kids seem to want to jump straight to 10mm from nothing and they suffer the consequences. Hope this helps anyway.

Valid but you can read it in like three other threads.

I'm just waiting on my cyclescheme cheque to come through so I can spend a happy £1000 in BLB. I will of course whine on this thread if it all goes horribly wrong.

looks nice apart from the super high stem and ridiculous flanges on the grips!
im definitely going to organise a lo-pro ride soon.

Yeah, looking for a nice riser stem which doesn't look like ass is not easy. I like the flanges though. Will be keeping an eye on the lo pro ride for sure.

Just finished the Sticha:

My face has been finished for a long time:

Curse you frame buying bastards

less socially deprived mentalists

the band names imo

wtf indeed

Has anyone read The Satanic Verses?
I picked up a great condition hardback copy today for next to nothing.
I don't think I was followed home.

It's beautiful. I don't know enough about Islam to be able to pick out the bits that were particularly offensive to god-botherers but the book as a whole, the characters, the character development, the setting, the writing, the atmosphere is unlike anything I've read from the last century. One of those books you can read with someone, reading out a sentence and talking about it for five minutes, then reading another sentence. Incredibly rich book. Take your time over it, it's so rewarding.

His mum was right, mums are always right.

W0rd. The mums are not to be questioned.

lol that is obscene. fine work.

this sounds intriguing. i got together with blackspring (see previous page) a couple of weeks back and we stumbled though a few neutral milk hotel, joanna newsom and and nick cave covers amongst other things. we're about to start trying to work on some original stuff by correspondence at the moment but are both quite busy. i wonder if she'd be up for adding another element to our little project? it's very early days but what you describe doesn't sound a million miles from what certainly i and quite possibly we'd like to get into...? just a thought.

Hell yeah baby. PM incoming.

If this is gonig to be a find-me-a-band thread then I'm in.

If anyone's up for a spot of melancholy neo-folk/sea shanty type stuff in the Stoke Newington area, let me know. I'm currently playing these very quiet, very gentle Iron and Wine/Bonnie Prince Billy sort of songs on my own but I want to push it out to being less singer songwritery and more almost progressive, lots of interplay between instruments, less lyrics, more atmosphere, but still totally live instruments. Noise me up kids.

OK back - they're not 89s. I suspect an 81 and an 85 but I don't know how to check without taking them out, and I don't want to fuck with it too much tbh.

Nice. Will update when I get home.