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Actually mate, I've just realised I think our shop has started doing resprays now, my boss mentioned it a week or so ago, 01617732125 is the number, give him a ring and ask about it because I know we're doing powdercoating pretty cheaply too.

Yea, we know Neil Orrell, lovely bloke and should be cheaper than that IIRC.

Storm of Iron was a good one by McNeill....

Just finished Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway, tempted to move onto some more China Mieville stuff now. Had a serious deficiency in his writing style recently and need to get my monthly hit.

Cool, undibs on the Brooks, I'll PM about the panniers.

Provisional dibs on the panniers/B17 pending on pics. (They don't seem to be working for me?)

Cheers man! Really looking forward to getting it, need a new jumper for winter to boot, left my old one around somewhere....

Anyone interested in getting number 11 so I don't have to freeze to death this winter?

Unfortunately I'm in Manchester, but if you can get a 'Ball joint separator', which is the tool I was on about. (Just remembered) from an auto shop or mechanic, that should do the trick.

Can't remember what the tool is called but we've got one at work, it's like a fork but each prong is a wedge, you put it either side of the taper and hammer it in, pushes the crank right off.

If the bike isn't made for 700c forks/wheels wont this mess the geometry around? Better to stick with the current forks and run the proper wheels.

It will mess the geo around a tad. Not sure specifically how it'll affect the riding/steering, my friend's bike was set up like that for a fairly long time and he didn't seem to have any problems with it, was his first fixie/road style bike to boot so he wasn't even remotely experienced with that sort of geo.

Just speaking from personal experience.

You can get 27" rims and do it that way, 700c are just a little easier to come by, you could also get a brake with huge drop on it which could equally work.

Looks like your frame is for 27" wheels. If you're not running a back brake, possibly switch out the forks for 700c forks and just don't run with a back brake. Did it with a friend's bike and it worked rather well.

Reading Hidden Empire by by Kevin J. Anderson, first volume of The Saga of Seven Suns.

Enjoying it so far, looks like it's gonna be an epic space opera series :)

Read that a while ago, not followed it up but it was a fantastic book, IIRC, starts off a bit slow but really picks up pace. The laser duelling was a favourite of mine.

Should be able to get the cash to you in the next couple of days, looking forward to a much needed hoodie!

Just started reading The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived by Robert Rankin, finding it pretty damn funny already and the bloke who wrote it is a fantastic fellow. Great singer/banjo player too.....

Also started reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon which I'm finding rather splendid too!

Potential dibs

PULLOVER HOODIE
1- Jadias
2 - EJ (Private sale)

ZOODIE (WITH ZIP)
1- PoppaToppa (M)
2 - FrenchTouch (M)
3 - r payn (M)
4 - WilliamJohn (L)

TEE
1 - callengreeves (?) *in White TBC
2 - Tomillsley 2XL Stealth

Cheers man, properly need a hoodie too!

Damn, I'm going to have to drop out of this one, just realised I've got no time and next to no money so wont be able to make it down, sorry.

One vote for zippers here, never been a massive fan of the pullover hoodies

Knew it was an Andy! I'll just come down and see what happens team wise down there, happy just as long as I get a few games in.

Me Tum and Andy? I've forgotten the guys name who we played with as well, which is really bad considering the photo is on my Facebook, I'm terrible with names but I think it was an Andy.

Sweet! I'll be seeing if I can get into a Manc team if there are enough people but I'm happy playing with whoever.

I'm up for this if we need a player, I'll be going down anyway to watch but it'd be great to play.

It's a wicked thing to have until you lend it to light someones fag and get a load of quizzical looks. Explaining that it's a thing from a comic book never really seems to help. I don't even mind communism that much.

Aye, I can imagine that'd get you some weird looks, just need to pick up some white trousers now and it's all good. Quite tempted to make a Saint of Killers coat/revolvers now.

Almost finished everything by China Miéville.

It seems as though the weirdness / fantasy aspect is a little arbitrary at times, and is almost just a MacGuffin.

Still, I like the complexity that he builds in to his plots, without being circuitous.

I think that's one of my favourite things about him, that he's able to make the plots really nice and complex but easy enough to follow. Some Sci-Fi writers end up with ridiculously complex plots and the reveals are a bit lost in just how bloody complicated they are, whereas I've found Mieville hasn't disappointed yet.

Sounds cash, my black tee is holding out damn nicely, you did a great job on them dude, top!

FUCK YEAH - absolutely the best comic series in forever.

*I have a 'fuck communism' zippo because I'm a nerd.

I think I need one of those now. I managed to finish the entire series in about a week, bloody brilliant, would have to agree if it wasn't for Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, still on the fence as to all time favourite but Preacher is definitely in the running.

Moved onto The Long Earth now which is pretty interested and getting into Catch 22.