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Ok Scott - thanks for letting me borrow it. I liked it, but think I will get some panniers for now as I do plan to tour a bit in the summer and don't have the cash for both.

What is the shops opening times?

A friend of mine was recently riding somewhere around Wandsworth when sme kids shouted from the side of the road, 'happy slap paki!' and proceeded to throw a baloon over him.

At first he thought it was just a water bomb as then he smelt something funny. And realised it was something like bleach and he thought it also spelt of piss. He then vomited at the side of the road and of course felt all rond horrible, both for beig covered with this stuff, whatever it was, and being raciallu victimised.

he told me that he then showered in his clothes as he wasnt sure what else to do, and his face came up all read from the bleach.

I am in total disbelief about this - has anyone experienced/seen anything similar? Should he bother reporting it to the Police?

Cheers,

Paul

I find it funny why some forum members feel self-important enough to proclaim that i should leave the forum. While it is great that this forum is unmoderated, there is a locus of power from a small group who bully others.

I will never leave this forum, it might come in handy, but increasingly i am concluding its primary aim seems to be for this locus to spam one another with 'jokes', toss each other off about crap clothing lines, bully new people who ask questions and in general act like the fixed wheel posers you lot clearly are.

I also find it odd that your repeated attempts to try and explain who I am have to resort to me being a loner, who does nothing except use the internet, with no social skills. Just because someone is sufficiently self confident to take abuse and sometimes actively encourage it is unlikely to be the person who describe, for such a person usually does not have the self esteem necessary to withstand such attacks and would therefore be the opposite, a wallflower, so not to attract attention. I will not take the bait and start giving personal details about myself, I will leave the observation at that and merely repeat you are very wrong.

I suppose in the fixed wheel community, who are mainly followers, are too used to simply following what others say.

Oh of course, I forgot, yes I wanted to unearth all that again and express the fact that all women can't ride and that if they get injured or die well then its their fault and possibly even funny.

Of course I don't give a shit that a poor girl has died and want to make jokes out of it.

I shouldn't be asking to be banned, I should just commit Seppuku right now.

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Paul Michel: the first time you provoked people's disgust was when you posted a generalisation about women cyclists in the Rider down thread; just a few minutes before that rider's boyfriend posted to say that she had died of her injuries. Some of us were willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, that it was just bad timing, a crass but forgiveable error.
Now, while the thread about Eilidh is still active and while the couple of hundred forum members who went on the memorial ride are still moved to tears when we think about it, you post this. I told you a couple of days ago that you had passed the point where anyone would have any sympathy for you and you responded that you didn't want sympathy. It is just as well. You are simply despicable and, I think, an attention seeking misogynist.
You should leave the forum. You shouldn't be banned - you should realise how grossly you have, today, insulted the memory of a dead woman and do the decent thing and leave. What you are like in real life is irrelevant; you have proved time and time again that you are incapable of posting on here without, at best, being pathetically annoying and, at worst, hateful and devoid of any ability to feel genuine compassion or empathy. If you have one ounce of self respect you will ask Velocio to delete your account.

Fuck right off and get off your high horse you self righteious piece of shit.

I cannot believe you have had the audacity to suggest there is a link in those comments. Someone HAS DIED FOR FUCKS SAKE, and now you are using it to try and turn people against me.

That is grotesquely dispicable thing to do you horrid, horrid person.

What a sad video. It brings a tear to the eye. RIP

Thats a remix of an old drum and bass song isnt it? What was it called again

I'm off to the Bishopsgate event on Thursday, it looks more serious and less fun than the event tonight at Cafe Otto.
Sinclair is much more a walker than cyclist, but in the first section he tells of injuring his leg and having to dig out his bike to get around. A fine counterpoint to the experience of Ken Worpole, another Hackney writer of the Centerprise generation, who cycled so much the physio told him to walk more or risk losing the power of his walking muscles.

Like many of us Sinclair first got to understand London through cycling to work. Few people understand London better.

I never knew cycling could be bad for you. I just supposed that, being a low impact exerise, it does not give you the gripe of walking/running.

If Clive-o doesnt take it 2nd dibs on the anal raping.

Why bother waiting? I can take two at once.

Paul- michel, you're a pathetic man.

Thanks.

Still not sure why so many on this forum have to resort to personal insults.

i doubt they have bras on.

Bloody bohemians.

i get the felling you're single.
and you will be for a long time.
do you still live with your Mum?

Do I not speak the truth?

You can never tell what a breast is like until it is unsheathed from its receptacle.

The same is true of something that covers half ones face.

The blonde with the shades on - the others can get fucked

Like bras, shades can hide a lot of barbarity, though.

Ok. You go first.

Surely it has become apparent by now I am self centered?

I can. They look great, in at the start of something big, wearing clothes that you can imagine people wearing on a normal day. It'll convince a lot of people, including women, that they can cycle. Now we're just waiting for the winter range ... ;)

There are already enough women on the streets daydreaming while riding bikes through heavy traffic, though. :)

When I say 'gigantic capitalist machine' I refer not to Top Shop's support or any additional funding, but the system's desire itself to squeeze all soul out of human activity by filling it will consumerism.

I think we can all admit this shite isn't necessary, just a continuing vulgarisation of modern existence. All subcultures, like this, are guilty of simply being a different version of the britney spears followers, westlife fans, or dickheads who go and buy mulberry bags.

Having one gear does not preclude this you know.

And, all this aside, how can anyone claim those girls in that photo look anything but imbecelic?

PM just create a new profile and delete Paul-Michel.

start again.

I'm starting to see no need. This forum is just all about mutual cock sucking.

I mean, I think we can all agree Rapha is a fucking joke.

p-m - What is pretentious about practicality?
Do you ride your MTB without practical gloves, shoes, pedals, clothing?
Would you not care what you look like when you turn up to an event on your bicycle?

Its not practical clothes I hate, its the bangwaggoning.

While I see there to be some benefit of not being a boring altura wearing high ziz respro back packet person, I just question a fashion houses ability to do it.

After all, most MTB I have and have previously bought is manufactured by specialists, be it fox or whoever. Built for purpose, not for some bizarre social movement.

I for one cannot imagine Sheldon Brown buying shite from Topshop.

I am sorry but I am being myself; I am not trying to wind anyone up. An opinion is an opinion.

or maybe instead we can just suck each other off and tell each other how great we all are all day everyday?

Jesus P-M, you really are a twat.

Read 3 posts above your pea-brained, lazy-arse trolling rubbish. It is friends of people on here, an ex-courier involved and people who have graduated from London College of Fashion.

So, in short - people who know more about bikes than you and fashion than you. Moron.

Having an opinion does not equate to trolling. i don't care what star studded resumes they have, it doesnt stop the idea being pretentious and indicative of the perversion, in London especially, of every sub culture having a giangantic capitalist machine meddling with it.

Clearly, then, a number of people here are exactly the style conscious people I identified.

I read about this in a Bishopsgate publication yesterday.

Its repreated, if its the same thing, in a couple of days. Unfortunately it looks sold out:

http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/events_details.asp?EventsID=359

Wasn't it about three weeks ago that Paul-Michel was pretty much asking what a bike was?

Don't exagerate; I marketed myself as a blank sponge so the stuff would be quicker to soak up.

i've beenriding bikes all my life, just only off road so am and am completely clueless and still slightly uncomfortable on this new geometry and skinny tyres.