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ignore me - just found the reference to Bamboo tees. never heard of em but evidently the big V thinks they are kosher.

Jesus CHRIST some of these designs are amazing!!! Brilliant work.

I apologise for not having read through the thread for this but... can we get the winners printed on American Apparel tees? Good quality, good fit etc. Ok, the CEO is a child molester, but apart from that they're great.

it simple - the more we report those incident, the more attention it should get from the police, same go to bike theft as well, the more we report it the more likely they'll end up focusing on it as a serious crime.

Yes I agree with you Ed - but what I was saying that my incident was deemed non-reportable by the police. I tried to report it, they refused because there were no injuries requiring medical treatment and driver handed over details. Only point I was making was that in the absence of those things, don't bother filling in lengthy forms because you will end up throwing them in the bin, as I did!

Either way, reporting to the police is a must, since quite a lots of cycling incident go unreported, and TfL (as well as other board) tend to rely on those statistic for future reference.

When I went over someone's bonnet earlier in the year (they were pulling across me, not having seen me, attempting to go the wrong way down a one-way street), the police couldn't have been less interested. In fairness to them, I wasn't injured and the driver gave me her details.

The damage to my bike was minor (torn bar tape), and besides the police said they wouldn't get involved - it was between me and her insurers.

I asked to fill out an incident form but was told that it would simply be a record for me that I had told them - it would not be used for TfL etc etc. So god knows why anybody would bother filling it out.

Sooooo this is all a long-winded way of saying that if you weren't injured and you got the driver's details, then don't bother filling out a form. However if they absconded then the police should deffo be interested.

Sorry to hear that sir - heal up, and tell the full story if you can bear it.

Do you work with me?

Are you into leather and rope bondage? If so, yes, nice to see you.

so it could be good, or could be bad, depending on what you're into.

Yesterday I described something at work as "better than a kick in the nuts" to my colleague... then I remembered he is an open deviant and I hastily added "well, depends on what you're into." He replied with a mischievous grin "you don't wanna know!" :(

Mud-brown Specialized SS parked up outside my work in W14. I admire your zeal for crime-prevention, but surely two of Kryptonite's very heaviest locks is overdoing it?

@matt_r_p: flip the rear wheel NAAAH! the chainline is off when u try it with the fixed side by min. 5 mil

So what's the answer? Is it fixable??

Also, the brake pads were about half a mile away from the rims, the back brake's quick release didn't work, nobody had seen fit to grease the inside of the seat tube and it is supplied with flat pedals and no straps. On the upside, they had supplied 16t cogs on both sides of the hub so flipping it was easy, even for me.

I swapped out my mate's chain on his Unipack yesterday to preempt any in-transit accidents. They really are horrible bikes. eg the cabling to the rear brake is attached to the top tube by plastic ties :(

Just noticed the author did a follow-up piece to this. It is much much funnier than the original. Check it out. Also a bizarre article on how to do a fixed-gear conversion in this month's Wired mag.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/the-great-gadge-2/

Day before yesterday along Oxford St I was caught up in a motorcycle protest against parking fees for motorbikes. There were about a dozen of them, sounding their horns a LOT and wearing fluoro protest jackets and observing red lights. It was a bit of a crap protest. I would have taken the piss but I didn't want to get covered in motor oil / sodomised / insert your own motorbike tradition here.

Coming out of the cinema on King St yesterday evening, a bearded fella on white bike & red chain (I think) sped past me and dispensed a sup nod. Since I was a footenger, this was particularly impressive. Whoever you are, hello!

what's happening to this forum? time was when this kind of post would have been directed to a link like this...

http://tinyurl.com/obrfsn

i couldn't love bon iver any more.

While I was waiting for a wheel build at 14, I went into a clothes shop round the corner at the Truman Brewery. Bon Iver was playing on the shop's sound system. I said to the bloke behind the counter "I just can't stop listening to this album", he says, "neither can I, we've only got three CDs in the shop". Trufax!

+1 for the Bon Iver. In fact, any beardcore should do the trick eg Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes.

1. dovoneil - the blackest black you have
   
2. rocksteady - red
   
3. saibot- black
   
4. Johan - 1 clear 1 red
   
5. Jono - black like a bomb
   
6. Eyebrows- 1 of each. (i want to tag my bikes, and need a keychain) can mine have two raised eyebrows over the LFGSS instead of my forum name? pretty please.
   
7. Tiswas - 1 red, 1 clear please (Racist, I know).
   
8. moog - 1 clear
   
9. Elguapo - 1 red (I fell on my last one and it literally stabbed me in the ass)
   
10. teenslain - 2 black (Can we do the same thing as last time? Or how about just setting everything in Akzidenz Grotesk, much cooler than Impact or whichever font you used last time)
    
11. Aroogah - 2 Black
    
12. Dropout - 1 red
    
13. Andrea - 1 clear - 1 black
    
14. JackFlash - 1 black 1 clear (^ agree with TS and Akzidenz)
    
15. Balki - In the absence of pink ones shaped like testicles, I'll begrudgingly take 2 black ones
    
16. huge16 - 2 black and 2 clear
    
17. NurseHolliday - black like my heart
    18.BillyBob - Black like the omen
    
18. taogeogheganhart - 1 black 1 clear
    
19. matt_r_p - 1 black
    

Have a friend who is the best-connected woman in west London - she has stuck it on her FB status today... hopefully someone will step forward.

ARRRGGGHHHH my calves are no more beefy than a teenager's biceps. You should have seen these pins, they were MINGING. Next time I'll take a photo. Until then, I declare the matter closed (ducks).

So we're the demi gods of fashion on here too now eh? telling people how they should be dressing?
Get over yourself!

Bugger all to do with fashion, and everything to do with covering up legs that wouldn't look out of place on a Lidl battery chicken!

Bloke on shitty white frame and chain so slack it was dragging on the tarmac, wearing green t-shirt, heading east on High St Kensington yesterday evening... get some longer jeans - your spindly white legs are a fucking disgrace!

And another one...

Heading along the A4 cycle path, east, this morning. Minding my own business when a squirrel darts straight across my path without even indicating. Could have been curtains for me. The government should fund an ad campaign alerting squirrels to this kind of dangerous behaviour - it's only a matter of time before a cyclist is seriously injured in this way.

White bike, electric blue rims, fakenger bag heading west up the Great West Rd this morning - I said 'morning', you looked confused. Hello!

Heading east on Bayswater Rd this morning. In inside lane, nothing ahead of me, doing about 18mph. Cars in outside lane doing maybe 15mph. I notice mini-van in outside lane ahead of me is slowing down a bit. Junction coming up on left, alarm bells start ringing... sure enough I get to the junction to see a Merc is moving across to turn into the side road. I brake and swerve, a passing tourist lets out a "whoa-oooohh!" and I have just enough time to do a Roger Moore style eyebrow-raise to the Merc driver. Strangely quite satisfying .