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Pff, until someone tells you it's not worth buying you lunch because they think you'll puke it up, or a shop assistant tells you to eat more (then walks away) when you ask for a smaller size, you've got nothing.

:P

Ok, well I guess I've learned not to make throwaway remarks involving beverages.

I have a stack of the LFGSS crash advice cards which I thought to hand out to people I train... It is strange though, promoting cycling with confidence training then giving them a 'what to do if you crash' card.

Knowing what to do in that situation makes it easier to handle confidently if it does happen and thus be more confident to get back on the bike afterwards. Totally give them out!

Are you called Jess Barret?

Close, but no.

teresa ?

"Bra Jesters" is an anagram, and I'll give you ten points (or a pint if I ever attend this Easts business) if you work it out.

:D

bra jesters on the a13. nice chatting to you. see you soon.

Nice to meet you, sir.

On my way home tonight I got two wankers on a scooter making "Orrite darlin'!" kind of noises at me every so often. I was almost home when they started driving very close to me, then the guy on the back reached out and tried to grab or hit me. I did a bit of a swear/swerve/speedy burst, then they fucked off ahead because there was a car behind. Said car pulls up next to me as I'm shouting and shaking my middle finger and (for some unknown reason) trying to catch up with them. Guy leans out of the window, and I expected he might ask if I'm alright. No. He says: "Well, you do have a nice arse."

"I'd love to be your saddle, darlin'..."

"Why's a girl like you riding a bike?"

got really shaken up last night when a woman holding a new born decided to do this to me - ffs are new mother's not meant to be slightly safety concious when carrying their children around?

It's like the "Pram as Shield" mentality/phenomenon. "Pram as Battering-Ram" is similar.

Under a block of flats in Leipzig. Of all the bikes there, around 30% were freelocked, the rest weren't locked at all.

The response to my disbelief: "Everyone's got a bike, why would they want to steal one?"

An unusual spot on Saturday, a group of about five guys on fixed gears pootling out of the Black Lion pub in Plaistow, of all places. Not a sight seen often round those parts!

There was a thread on here about a study into helmet wearing and accidents stating that drivers take less care when you are wearing one. ** I am yet to see a lady cyclist without one.**

Huh? Really? I choose not to wear a helmet because wearing one would just completely ruin my hair. I'll never find a good husband if my hair isn't looking its best.

Bra Jesters!

I love my bicycle!

First week of cycling in more than a month! I'm reduced to informing the internet about how awesome I feel, because my friends (and especially flatmates) are already very bored of hearing about it. My boyfriend thinks I missed my bike more than him, and is jealous.

Hah!

Sod the lot of them!

Wheee!

He's probably one of those people whose disapproval I can almost physically feel whenever they pull up next to me at a traffic light.

I didn't have any problems getting used to fixed. I was told it'd be a massive shock and totally different and I'd forget to pedal and I'd be exhausted after a mile because you can never stop pedalling ever and I'd die every time I went down a hill.

But it was all fine. I'm still a bit puzzled about what the fuss was about. I freely admit I'm pretty shit at riding a bike, any bike, but a freewheel didn't make me any less shit.

Have fun! Enjoy it! And don't worry about it! I reckon everyone has a particular thing they found challenging, and all these things somehow get collated into one big list of challenges that everyone will find near impossible to overcome. Don't believe the hype ;).

That Mission Bicycles site.

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Has a thing where you can make the ugliest colour combinations possible.

If they cut out the bits with those guys on a hill singing/playing guitars or whatever, it'd be a pretty good video.

The shipping for mine was ridiculously fast, three days or something? Got a separate tax bill, £13 or so (for the crankset and a cog).

I've been using a crankset of theirs since August/Septemberish, no problems, but I'm hardly the best person to judge, as a ridiculous weed who probably couldn't swing a hammer hard enough to dent it. I reckon you get what you pay for though. I wouldn't feel entitled to whinge too much if I'd got it and thought it was crap.

Aya Bra Jesters...

Christmas lights were really ace!

You win the prize for people who dont look like their avatars

Hah! If only I looked so dashingly deranged.

Your ravings about the lights have tempted me to go on a little 3am Christmas lights tour.

A guy on a Look on Thursday. I was flyering on Oxford Street, we had a chat, discussed your bars, they were from BLB, you weren't too happy with them. I was tactless and you were embarassed! It occurred to me that if you were on here I could apologise :-).

I wouldn't apply the term 'gangsta' in this case, really.
In fact I find the general depiction of youths as 'gangstas' and 'hoodies' to be a load of shite.

Hence the 'ironic' quotation marks ;).

I propose a new game: See how many oversized baseball caps with price labels still attached you are able to pluck from the heads of 'gangsta' youths.

I saw a bike the other day where the handlebars were just wide enough for the grips (them ones with the stars on), with a little Goldfinger lever which had been put on on top of the grip. I'd say that was too short.

Sun Manxman 1954/1955.

Since the photos were taken, I've added:

1. a new chain and sorted out the tension; and
   
2. black Oury grips, which I'm unsure about.
   
   

I'm looking for a Sun Cycles (Birmingham) head badge. On eBay I've only come across Worksop badges. Any ideas?

I have an old Sun frame, was going to do it up but the BB is stuck and to be honest I don't think the frame is really worth the effort. Keeping it at a mate's at the moment, will check when I'm next there (probably Thursday) and if it's a Birmingham headbadge you're more than welcome to it.

Also got the forks, with the little plastic Sun logo insert, if you're interested. Not sure they'll take 700c though.