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got to be better than when everyone smoked while they were tattooing you though!

Arse and neck rate as the only ones I would really not want to go through again. Sadly I have 4 hours to go on my neck.
Everything else has been bearable. None of it has been truly painless for a whole session but once you relax into it you can process the sensation in a less shocked way.
I try to play good areas off against the stingers now. So next is to complete a leg sleeve (trouser? my leg is trousered out?!)

Maybe he's neutered and it's nothing to do with the bike?

have lfgss tattoos already turned up? "tip top clubbing jam" would be amazing though.

I worked for years in tattoo parlours, we'd explain why and tbh most underage clients would just go and get it elsewhere, then we'd have to cover it later, and cover-ups were much less sophisticated back then. Hell you can even do it yourself with a needle and ink if you're desperate. Where ther's money changing hands someone will do it.

However the onus is on the clients as well as the tattooists to raise the light in which tattoos and the industry are viewed. It's a slow change, but it is happening.

It's a shame when the type of gang symbols etc (sweeping generalisation here, but this isn't a thesis) that some younger people are tempted to get/do get, brand them permanently as people with low self image and aspirations. I'm not out to judge anyone, but it's always better to see a well thought out piece of work worn by someone who is proud to be in their skin. Tattoos can be beautiful, but they don't make you beautiful, that comes from having a positive attitude about yourself.

/am not a hippy.

...also lying to your tattooist to get the work done is really bad form. The law won't support them at all if it's proven that you've given false ID. Not that you would do such a thing, I hope.

Save your pennies now because you'll burn through them pretty fast getting top notch work, and there's no excuse to settle for mediocre with the two plus years of enforced study and consideration. It might not feel like it, but you're in a great position to take advantage of looking around people's books etc.
Also some of the better artists can have years long waiting lists. So there might be a wait even after you're legal.

I didn't start getting tattooed until I was well into my twenties and it's never held me back.

well then you'll be considering it for the next two.

Or it might be an opportunity to make friends with your local bike shop, they'll usually tighten it for free.

Oh and no drinking tonight or tomorrow. Increases bruising/ blood loss due to thinning the blood, ditto asprins.

None of it is unbearable, the first 5-10 minutes will be the worst, which is the case every time you restart after a break.
Eat something high in sugar before and after.
The more you relax the easier it will be for both you and the tattooist.
Listen to the aftercare instructions.
Tip your artist.

I'd be surprised if that was the bb, I think they're reasonable miche ones and bottom brackets which are fucked are generally a bit noisy and feel gravelly. Make sure you have a lockring and yeah, tighten it.

is it doing it silently?
Also most reasonable otp new bikes have reasonable bb's installed, is it shop bought?

Just wondering if there was any update on this? No probs if not of course!

Hey it's on the new condor site!.... but it's the 2010 no cutaway but not slopey model. I don't know how this affects pricing.

I actually never expected the site to be back up.

I might drop by the art show on my way home.

Spotted a woman commuter on a small folder, following her blithely ignorant other half up the inside of a load of moving buses going around a bend, by a hard shoulder. Pointed out to her "please don't do that, the driver cannot see you, and you are likely to suffer horrific injuries at some point when you get smeared up the side" when she passed me waiting behind the bus. She stopped, thanked me, and I mentioned she could get cycle training, of which she had previously been unaware.

So that was a good result.

Conservative Values and I will be down tomorrow, come and say hi if you see us.

Mine's the 2009, but in rapha pyjamas. I paid £500 second hand for it and it was like new and unmarked at that price.

Dublin Kevin I believe? May be wrong there

Unfortunately I can't go this evening, have to go weightlifting instead, would rather not. Just there must also be some other part time slackers around.

Is anyone looking for climbing partners during the day at all, ideally at the castle?

lovely friendly people! bloody cold though, wasn't boy scout enough about clothing options.

that's actually very flattering, she said darkly

I use mine daily, I even go to the supermarket on it. It's fast. It suits my frame. That fat tubing makes locking up with the wheels in a bit of a PITA tho.

Braking/ resisting at speed, especially downhill can make the back end slide around quite a bit, so have got out of skidding it so much, esp on less than level terrain (ie take your weight off and skid and whoopsie).