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400 is loads! I can't begin to imagine how long it must have taken Teddy to pull this lot together!

Thats interesting - thanks mdcc. Interesting idea but I can sort of see why it didn't catch on.

The black thing is to aid in shouldering hte bike - makes it more comfy to sling it over your shoulder, like a hammock - sometimes has a bag in them too.

As an aside, I love all these little extra's you sometimes see on the older bikes. The solutions to problems can be so pragmatic, though not always very good from a riding point of view - like that seat bolt thing (how many people would really change the height of their saddle on the move via QR on the move?). The very early suspension bikes have been mentioned here before, but some of the ideas were mental then, all kinds of imaginative uses of elastomers and pivots.

The Ritchey is ace, obviously showing its age as all the older mtbs tend to. What is the deal with the spring on the seatpost though?

It's not dangerous if you're careful, just behave exactly like a car and take the full lane of the road.

It obviously is dangerous - significantly more so than riding normally (not particularly telling you off or anything, I've done similar with a frame and wheels)

No idea about listed buildings and the like, I imagine that does preclude certain features. Real shame though.

Stating the bloomin' obvious, but it's a really unpleasant idea that people walk past a house, see an open door and view it as an opportunity.

Once we've a chat with the landlord (he know about this), he'll be able to bill the neighbour £1,000 for the pair.

that'll teach them leaving the stupid door open.

With the best will in the world, I can't believe that they will accept liability for this. You should have a chat with the Landlord about his own liability, if people have been in before and nicked stuff perhaps he is more at fault for not making the place secure?

Really hope they turn up - nice looking bikes the pair.

That rourke looks like it's been shot... poor thing. Shame, looks quite pretty from a distance.

I got the FMJ reference straight away. I like it, though I don't really wear bike referencing T's so probably wouldn't pick one up. All the best with it!

might also be interested in the brakes if there was a picture / link

"The affair, which had been well hinted at in UK newspaper gossip columns, included passionate London taxi cab rides around St John's Wood during which they would ask the cab driver to insert cassette tapes of Wyatt singing Puccini"

I assumed this was one of the wiki vandalisms but apparently not. Amazing to find a Taxi driver willing to turn off Heart FM...

This seems really cheap for that frame, it looks really nice. Appreciate it's not yours but it's hard not to think that you'd be better advised to stick it on fleabay.

It's not only the dent on the top tube. There's a graze on the head tube which indicates, that it might be crashed. Anyway, the top tube looks like it was repaired and retouched - it's not straight ffs.

scratch on head tube looks like its cable rub. Top tube does look dented though...

Looking for a one of the little NItto R10 racks - anyone know where to pick them up in this country (or, indeed, have one they want to sell)? Or anything that does a similar job?

Looks like the attached (Why have I still not worked out how to insert pictures?!)

Most places appear to be out of stock, and the currency is going the wrong way for them to order more apparently. Or something...

haha! I have to say I'm a bit surprised this hasn't gone - I quite like it. Doesn't help you much but hey ho.

second dibs - pm'd

hmmm i'm not sure, my Pearson is seriously nippy, also wouldn't it depend on the geometry rarther than the wheel size? honestly though i prefer crazy handling of a very small rake fork.

Must be some centripetal / gyroscopic force that makes it harder to change the direction of a larger spinning wheel than a smaller one... I don't think it's sensible trying to justify lo pros - they just look wicked.

The other day a ped walked out in front of me, without looking (off a roundabout ... seven dials) whilst readin a FUCKING E-BOOK. Unbefuckingliveable. An EBOOK! I wish to god I'd knocked it out of his hands, and broke it into bits on the damp cold cobbled pavement.
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Shame it wasn't an iPad, I hear those things are so cool, it would have noticed via it's GPS that you were coming, and told the numpty exactly where to step to avoid you...

Thought you could ride through marble arch.

Think you can. But there's a cycle crossing accross the road, which ends on a pavement on which you can't ride which then (a couple of metres later) goes into Hyde Park where you can again.

Isn't that the bit in Hyde park where its a cycle crossing, then a bit of pavement before the park (which I think is ok to ride in). That's really pathetic.

From a gov.uk site somewhere:

"A fixed penalty is not a fine. Payment of the penalty by the recipient discharges there liability to conviction for the offence for which the FPN was issued. It does not constitute an admission of guilt, but removes the possibility of the creation of a record of criminal conviction."

Could be wrong but I was under the impression that you were meant to carry bikes (technically) whilst on pavements rather than pushing themalong. Obvioulsy it's one of those enourmously pedantic points that one would have to be really annoying to try to take advatange of in front of the rozzers... oh, wait... ;)

You'll have to catch me first - and I sometimes skip reds too...

Why bother? Just stop for a few seconds. Do you really want to risk being arrested given your employers? Just stop. Simples.

I have no idea who you work for, but now I'm imagining you're some kind of CIA spook? Provoking international dipsutes via RLJ?

You would say that ;)

I don't mind the constant clipping/unclipping. It's the fact that when you put them in your bag they always knock against something and turn themselves on, draining your batteries.

Lights that don't work unless they're connected to the clamp to the frame (some circuit runs through through the clamp) - makes nicked ones useless without the tea leaf taking the clamp as well, which could be made to require specific tools and therefore be a pain.