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I just got back from 3 weeks out the country today and was riding past their shop, something didn't look right so I pulled up to take a look.

The shop is empty (apart from their kerb sign standing against a wall) and it looks like they bailed. Does anyone know if they've gone for good or are just moving? I hope it's the latter.

PM sent on the 18. no name bars 43.5cc £4. Thanks, Marco

I'd bet that Niketown at Oxford Circus will be selling them along with other Tour related stuff right now. They print shirts there too. Give them a call.

The first two I took earlier this year at Trinity Bouy Wharf, deserves an investigation if you're out East along the Thames, lots to see including some interesting art work, Container City, Fatboy's Diner and London's only lighthouse. The third one was a lunch stop at Carribean Scene on the docks a bit further along past Excell, well worth a visit for the banana bread beer.

HTC Touch 3MP

Someone sent me this, I thinks it's worth a minuteb of all our time.

Marco

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Dear All

The Department for Transport is consulting on its vision to make Britain's roads the
safest in the world. But pro-speed and motoring groups have succeeded in
getting their members to flood the consultation with calls to oppose lower
speed limits. Labour has back-pedalled on a reduction of the national speed limit,
while the Conservatives are calling for speed limits for lorries to
be raised, on the basis that most break the law already.

If you have just a minute before 14 July, the day the consultation ends,
please click on the link below and add your voice for a safer way:
http://tiny. cc/saferway

WHY SHOULD I BOTHER?

• Widespread public support for lower speed limits risks being drowned out by
  a vocal lobby: this is one consultation where your views really can make a
  difference.
  
• Getting lower speed limits in rural and urban areas will not just make
  everyone safer, it will encourage physically active travel like walking and
  cycling, reducing obesity and congestion while improving quality of life.
  
• Reducing speed limits has been identified by the Climate Change Committee as
  one of the best 'quick wins' for the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas
  emissions.
  
  

WHY FOCUS ON SPEED LIMITS?
Reducing speed limits is the single most important but also controversial proposal. But there are other important things, such as changing the law to better protect vulnerable road users and moving away from a 'one size fits all' approach to road and street design to one that emphasises sense of place, which are being called for.

WHO'S BEHIND THIS CALL OUT?
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is one of the country's oldest
environmental groups and its president is author Bill Bryson. CPRE has long called for lower speed limits, less signage clutter and safer roads that are less intimidating for those on foot, cycle, horseback or using mobility aids. CPRE has been working closely with a wide range of environmental, transport and health groups. It is part of the Take Action on Active Travel alliance that now includes over 100 organisations calling, amongst other things, for lower speed limits:
www.adsph.org. uk/downloads/ policies/ Takeaction onactive travel_2009. pdf

CPRE has carried out a detailed analysis of the consultation and how road
safety plans, including lower speed limits work in other countries, in
particular the Netherlands, before coming up with proposals:
www.cpre.org. uk/campaigns/ transport/ rural-transport/ safer-roads

WHAT ELSE CAN I DO

• Contact your MP and ask them to respond to the consultation and ask for
  lower speed limits, roads that people feel to walk and cycle on, fairer laws
  on traffic collisions to protect vulnerable road users better and less signage
  clutter.
  
• Get your friends, family and colleagues to respond by forwarding this widely
  
• Get groups you are involved with to sign up to Take Action on Active Travel
  
• Take part in the Webchat with the Road Safety Minister on 9 July by putting in questions at:
  http://www.webchat. pm.gov.uk/ Default.aspx? webchatID= 87
  

Anyone with Barclays, ask to get upgraded to Premier Banking (it's free) and threaten to leave if they refuse.

Once you've got PB their service will dramatically improve.

Has anyone tried or used this stuff?

http://www.noahsark.co.uk/images/pitstop.jpg

"Geax Pit Stop - Repairs and inflates a 26x2.0 tyre in just 30 seconds. Works with tubeless or tubed systems."Fits presta and schreader valves.

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/madison/ravens-glasses-set-ec009217

New and unused, £25. Can drop off in East or Central London.

I don't think this is the right way to post but I can't find the button to start a new thread.

Marco

I had spotted this shop a few times (it's not very well signposted on the outside) and popped in for the first time yesterday to get a couple of new tyres and tubes put on my racer. The guy couldn't have been more helpful. They also have a real nice selection of new and second hand bikes, saddles and accessories in stock, a street cruiser hanging from the ceiling really caught my eye, one of their own builds and a thing of beauty.

Anyone living on the eastside should check them out and support a deserving local business.

I've been a member for a while and thought 'd better say hello. I ride mainly a geared racer but also have a cheap single speed bike I use at weekends. This group is a great resource and I've learnt a lot reading the various threads. Thanks.

Marco

Why unexpected?

What a great night. It was nice to meet a couple of people from here as well as fellow cyclists from all over London.

There were plenty of highlights; the punch-up at the top of Brick Lane just as we were about to set off, the feeling of safety and control you get (and the buzz) when there's 200 odd of you together on bikes, the dodgy right turn at Trafalgar Square, pedestrians shouting "where are you all going" and someone shouting back "Stonehenge", the flash mob we all created and the traffic chaos that ensued when we stopped for a drink on Old Compton Street, traffic free Regents Park ring road and a traffic free ride home through London being just some of them.

I saw a few people taking photo's and vids - if anyone spots them on the internet then please post the links up as I'd love to see them and re-live the moment. The ones I took were on top of Primrose Hill on a crap camera phone, so really not much use to anyone but here you go

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39737451@N06/sets/72157620216910422/

Finally, thanks to the organisers!

Marco

I'll be doing this ride tonight but starting over at Brick Lane rather than Greenwich, details below.

It would be nice to meet some people from here. If you spot someone tall on an old red Raleigh Team Europa (full gears on this one) then please say hello.

Marco

Meet at Beigel Bake, Brick Lane E1 6SB
Ride to Primrose Hill to watch the sun come up on the longest day. After stocking up with beigels (Beigel Bake is open 24 hours) we will first ride to London Bridge for 2.30am to meet up with cyclists from all over the capital before heading off to Frith Street in Soho for a coffee stop. Finally, all will ride up to Primrose Hill to watch the sunrise at 4.43am.

There is a psychological aspect to opportunist and amateur theft. If a bike LOOKS more easily nickable, someone (with an albeit smaller brain) will have a go. This then will leave a damaged bike.

I would recommend locking the rear wheel with the seatpost, or both seatstays, as it is then obvious how much cutting would need to be done to get the bike.

To defeat the Sheldon method.....Puncture the tyre, and cut the rim with an anglegrinder. I doubt this would take more than 5-10 seconds......as opposed to 3-4 minutes for the best locks.

There's a video by Northumbria police on Youtube that supports the Sheldon method, although annoyingly when it gets to the crucial bit where they demonstrate the wheel can't get out through the rear triangle we don't actually get to see everything we want to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6xnkEkP2WY

The article linked below supports what GA2G and ed are saying

http://www.mechbgon.com/lock/index.html

In summary I think catching the rear wheel and the seatpost is probably the way forward, for me at least. Thanks everyone for their views.

Marco

It's hard to visualise
That's what I'm having trouble with - the doubting Thomas syndrome..

I wonder if anyone can explain something for me. Sheldon Brown on his Lock Strategy page says that

"A U-lock should go around the rear rim and tire, somewhere inside the rear triangle of the frame. There is no need to loop it around the seat tube as well, because the wheel cannot be pulled through the rear triangle."

So am I right in thinking that as long as you lock your rear wheel as in the picture then, quick release nuts or not ,the rear wheel and frame are safe as long as the lock isn't cut through?

I replied to another thread on this subject as I'm a happy owner of said bike. I've been riding mine hard since March 09. Other than a pedal falling apart and the seat squeaking like mad (both since changed) I love it.

I think it depends what you use it for. If it's non work, texting, music, videos and fun stuff then choose the iphone. If it's work, long emails, word documents with a but of fun on the side then get the HTC Touch Pro.

I use the HTC and the battery will last a full day of heavy work use.

Thank's for that. I've found that a very slight slope up works best for me and definately helps with shoulder and wrist ache. But my long back still requires a slightly more upright seating position, hence the settings on the Raleigh. I've contemplated changing over to a B67 or something similar but then I think it would be a shame to part with the original old suede seat.

Lol - good spot Ed. Being 6'3 and a bit the Raleigh is just about perfect. I have to put the seat down and ride with riser bars these days because of the bad back (a combination of height and age catching up with me).

Whatever Charlotte. If you're around Victoria Park area on Saturday let me know and you can have a look at the bike for yourself and buy me a beer at the Britania for my trouble.

Here's the bike parked near my office in Paddington, pic just taken on the way back from the sandwhich shop.

Hello all

I actually bought one of these bikes two months ago after walking down to the guy's little warehouse off of Leabridge Road and giving it a test ride. It's a quality bike, strong frame and light, excellent tyres for road and off road and just a pleasure to cruise around on. The only components that looked cheap were the pedals and seat - but the seats so comfortable I couldn't be arsed to change it. The pedals I have changed since this picture was taken;

I ride from Leyton down to Canary Wharf or Tower Hill most weekends and it's a breeze on the OSH, and the number of compliments the bike gets is amazing. I love my old Raleigh

but the OSH is fun to ride and great on a sunny day.

There's someone over where I work in Paddington who's also got one and has put on a rack and mudguards to real good effect (although kind of defeats the original concept), I'll try and get a pic this week and post it up here.

Marco