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Mine is kept in the cupboard. But I now have an air-toight container for a bag o' beans. It's about as good as you can get I fink.

My machine is working great guns again after the descale. Massive crema on the new bag of Monmouth SomethingorOtherBeans.

I have a minute to kill, so here's my impression on storing coffee:

I'm told it's pretty unnecessary to worry about airtight containers for for whole bean, because the oils should keep the insides of each bean fresh. I believe it, as my beans are very "wet" looking, and i can't imagine much air getting in there. The local shop here roasts their own beans in house and take their trade pretty seriously, so i trust them when they say it's unnecessary to keep your coffee in a sealed container at home. That said, it's fun ot have cool shit in your kitchen and a sealed container for coffee can be one of those items. I do it because it can't hurt and it looks better than a brown bag.

Hippy is right that putting your coffee in the fridge is a terible idea. It just makes the beans wet. The air in a fridge is incredibly humid, and further more when you open the fridge 9 times a day, you insantly send in tons of fresh water particles to condense on beans. Then you shut the door and it just sits there.

If you must store your coffee for longer than a week put it in an air tight container and put it in the freezer. You shouldn't thaw/open/look at/think about this coffee until you are going to use it within a week.

Finally, I've learned that, for a french press, if you're using truly fresh coffee beans, you should expect the grounds to bubble up to a foamy "head" or "bloom." If your coffee is past it's prime, it just sits there like a wet towel. It it's fresh you literally see bubbles form and pop. Once you look for this, you can't miss it. It's pretty remarkable.

WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU PLAYING AT?

It was the middle of the rush hour.
You were overtaking a queue of stationary, I repeat stationary, traffic.
You were heading for a gap of about 2'6" between a panel van and a road island.
That van was in front of 3 other large panel vans all of which hugely restricted your view of pedestrians crossing between them.
It was wet.
You were doing the best part of 20mph.
You ran straight into 2 young girls trying to cross the road!

Yes I know the girls should have looked before stepping out but they were heading for a road island literally one pace in front of them.
Yes they were partly to blame BUT your riding was much, much more the cause of your accident.

I hope the girl who had injured her leg had nothing more than a sprain and I hope her friend was uninjured.
I hope the only injury you sustained was dented pride.
I trust you have the girls details and will send them flowers.

To all - When filtering past traffic, especially stationary traffic, SLOW DOWN! Ride only as fast as it's safe to do so. That speed should be a speed at which you can safely stop should you need / be forced to do so.

Always but always expect the unexpected!

was this the rider?

I'm a little bit calmer after a night's sleep....erm

I measured my postie @ 20(l) x 17(h) x 7(d) inches. Ideally, I'd like something the same size and shape.

When I checked out the large workhorse it looked way to small. If I manage to get a basketball in there I doubt it'll hold much else.

In general, the messenger bags seem to wide enough at the top, but are too narrow in the bottom and aren't high enough. I'm worried that once I get a ball in there, they won't close properly at the top.

The Bagjack looks like it could work out. The linked shop is out of stock, and I didn't understand enough German to navigate the official site last night. I haven't been able to find a UK stockist that's still got them.

The Banjo Bros bag doesn't seem to have the height and (according to the list) isn't in available in UK now.

Tbh, I'd probably paid too much attention to the talk of Chrome being "trendy" and ruled out what could be a very suitable bag. Hipsterish behaviour in itself, I suppose...doh.
Popped into Condor, but they said they couldn't get hold of any Kremlins...Chrome don't seem to be doing them anymore.

The other starred bags are all just generally too small.

Which I guess leads me to ask:

Anyone know where I can pick a Seagull Standard Pro/ Chrome Kremlin/ XL Workhorse in the UK, or to be able to try one on in London would be ideal.

I'm hoping to have my bag before I head back to Bristol for xmas.

http://www.londonfgss.com/post970219-691.html

changes shape and size quite intelligently. also not half bad looking. I wrote that post, in case you don't catch on to that. It's a nice bag. Not sure what it will cost you over there. i'm in the states.

Oh, and the chain stays are just something else:

They also have the gentlest of curves going on.

that looks SO good. It's so unique, so nice man. I love how steep the stays are becuase of the size of the bike and the dropout design.

wow.

edit:

finished product looks snazzy.

i suspect a few of you could use this. (from bikesnob)

If the bottom part of the stem is like this:

...you might be able to remove the wedge bit and bolt and cut the stem shorter, while keeping the same angle of course, and making sure you still have thread in there for the bolt to screw into. Am I making sense?

i've done this often.

clearly you aren't going to be shredding the gnar on this bike. just throw some clips on it.

also, egg beaters looks kinda retro, in a way.

canned air.

'advice'.

yea yea yea

That was my first thought....the cleat is tightly bolted to the shoe....the cleat does not move about...but i cannot remove my foot with an outward movement.......but comes out very easily and smoothly with a slight inside movement.....Is that ok....or is something very wrong?

I've read through this thread, and it sounds like the angle of the cleat was incorrect for your foot. It's likely that you when you put the cleat back on, you inadvertantly changed the angle of the cleat so that the back was pushed more towards the outside (or front towards the inside) a touch. I doubt it has anything to do with a burr or anything like that.

if you are duck footed, pigeon toed, or hens toothed, you have to account when angling the cleat under your foot.

dude thats terrible advise.

ed's post is good information for you.

Also, it says 31.8 here.
http://www.konaworld.com/bike.cfm?content=paddywagon

Finally, if you look on the bars, under the clamp, or inside the stem clamp there may very well be an engraving with the diameter.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Basically anything from Vladislav Delay.

in particular, this album:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:djfyxqqsldae

what the hell is a tour de france bike

cough cough

some hot seemingly legit riders on this page. nice.

that is amazing, never knew it was taken to that extent, especially the sync girls.

yea, so that plus any BMX video basically make fixie trixters kinda null and void. It's underwater basket weaving.

and all of this is ridiculous. it's clearly easily possible and done by more than a handful of humans. real or not in this one.

ed that looks really nice. seat looks a bit forward, but whatever. looks really nice.

new bike, have not got all the parts yet

first, good luck finding a ratio that pulls your wheel that close. Second, good luck getting your wheel on there when you do find it. Third, if you manage to do it, when you ride over dirty roads you'll hear the shit on your tire grinding on your seat tube.

that will be so fun.

I'm going with 'mentally ill' for you.

i'm both, though(t), INNIT, tea. ;-)

Joe; given that you called me 'dude', told me to 'chill' and referred to the 'sidewalk' I am guessing that you are either mentally ill or an American. I'll go with the latter.
Maybe jaywalking should be illegal but it's not so you have to be prepared for it. As BJ Scoble rightly points out the fact you mention it was Charing Cross doesn't really help your case; it's Charing Cross, what do you expect? It's not like cycling down the aisle of a church during a funeral; people are going to be jumping out at you, talking on their phones, listening to their I-pods and scratching their fat-but-less-fat-than-if-they-were-American arses.
It's galling but there you go, lots of things in life are galling.

chill dude. plenty of reason think joe is a tool. being american or not isn't one though... which you are clearly insinuating. nothing more to be said on the matter.

Not on this kind of bike where the weight is on the saddle, not the handlebar;

work for me perfectly when I shattered my wrist.

exactly what i was thinking. just sit up and beg, low gear ratio.

But one more preaching. When you're on a bike, you unfortunately have no practical right of way, EVER. Sorry, but if you ride with any other mindset you're gong ot get smoked by a car, or you're going to smoke a pedestrian. It's your job to always maintain the bottom line. If you want to sitck a finger in the air, tell a group of people crossing the street to piss off, wear orange and carry a fog horn, go for it. Thats your style and it's not going to hurt anyone. But don't actually pilot your bike around with that same attitude. You'll lose that battle and someone will get hurt.

today i have had a little accident because of a pedestrian. in front of charing cross, this massive wave of people crossing on the RED LIGHT for THEM -- hence GREEN LIGHT for ME.

this one girl very concentrated looking on her ipod while crossing, while most other people decided to give me room to cross among them. i decided to cross behind her, as she wasnt paying any attention, but when she finally realised that there is a world spinning, she thought it was a great idea to move BACK. i was already breaking, so i pulled even further. in the end, she hit me on the side, making me tip over and with front brake shut, i ended rolling on the asphalt with my bike.

in the end i got a bruised/peeled off knee, shifter looks a bit sideways, but i'm fine so does the bike. and it wasnt even necessary to say anything as i put my extremely pissed off face that even other people not involved stepped back. and the girl didnt even fall or anything.

i wonder, should i have just aimed right into her or what? at least i wouldnt be hurt now, but i dont know of any laws in case of pedestrians being runover by cyclists or even if their wrong doing makes any friking difference -- given that they were all crossing on the red light... why do cyclists get fined for jumping lights and pedestrians can do as they wish?

i used to ride like an asshole as well. then i almost killed a 9 year old girl who did exactly what your pedestrian did. She stepped backwards. Slow down, stop being a fucking jackbird. seriously.