IT'S HERE!! Cycling article in The London Paper starring ME!

Bassjunkieuk
Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
edited April 2009 in Commuting chat
A while back I posted about a possible SCR article in The London Paper, well it's now turned into a more general cycling in the capital article and I manged to get a lovely picture and piece on me in there :-)

When I get time I'll post a link to article.....but anyone up in town should definately grab a copy!!
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    A while back I posted about a possible SCR article in The London Paper, well it's now turned into a more general cycling in the capital article and I manged to get a lovely picture and piece on me in there :-)

    When I get time I'll post a link to article.....but anyone up in town should definately grab a copy!!

    Frick - just came back from a meeting via the hated tube and spurned several opportunities to pick up a copy of that particular rag!
  • girv73
    girv73 Posts: 842
    I like this one:

    Lucy Bathurst, 34, interior design agency owner, Hampstead

    Cycling philosophy? Bus drivers are out to kill you.
    Do you wear a helmet? No.

    ??
    Today is a good day to ride
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Dude - you ain't looking ninja/tart enough for my liking! I was expecting the full lycra, wraparound speed ninja/tart look! I know it's not your standard look - but if we're going to be stereotyped we migh as well give 'em their moneys worth...

    Talking stereotypes:

    "Kyle Hugall, 27, advertising creative, Hackney

    How long have you been cycling? I’ve been cycling since I was three years old.

    What bike do you ride?

    A Bianchi Pista
    (£150). It’s a fixed-gear bike, so the ride is really smooth. I love the amount of control you have over the bike. You feel much more connected to the road.

    Where do you regularly ride?

    East London to town."
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Cheers for posting the pic JA! I only got a chance to read my small bit before I got pulled off to do some "work"

    Got the sis in law grabbing some proper copies for me :-)
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  • chuckcork
    chuckcork Posts: 1,471
    girv73 wrote:
    I like this one:

    Lucy Bathurst, 34, interior design agency owner, Hampstead

    Cycling philosophy? Bus drivers are out to kill you.
    Do you wear a helmet? No.

    ??

    Makes sense to me, get hit by a double decker and a bit of foam on your head ain't gonna make a lot of difference to the dead/not dead equation.
    'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze....
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    chuckcork wrote:
    girv73 wrote:
    I like this one:

    Lucy Bathurst, 34, interior design agency owner, Hampstead

    Cycling philosophy? Bus drivers are out to kill you.
    Do you wear a helmet? No.

    ??

    Makes sense to me, get hit by a double decker and a bit of foam on your head ain't gonna make a lot of difference to the dead/not dead equation.

    :lol:
  • LazyBoycp
    LazyBoycp Posts: 320
    chuckcork wrote:
    girv73 wrote:
    I like this one:

    Lucy Bathurst, 34, interior design agency owner, Hampstead

    Cycling philosophy? Bus drivers are out to kill you.
    Do you wear a helmet? No.

    ??

    Makes sense to me, get hit by a double decker and a bit of foam on your head ain't gonna make a lot of difference to the dead/not dead equation.

    Oh please no, not another helmet/no helmet argument! If you wish to continue, please remove yourselves to http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12606081 forthwith. Thank you.
  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    chuckcork wrote:
    girv73 wrote:
    I like this one:

    Lucy Bathurst, 34, interior design agency owner, Hampstead

    Cycling philosophy? Bus drivers are out to kill you.
    Do you wear a helmet? No.

    ??

    Makes sense to me, get hit by a double decker and a bit of foam on your head ain't gonna make a lot of difference to the dead/not dead equation.

    :lol:

    Sorry Mark, I've seen the pics and I'm moving to the Hybridistas. 8) As far as I'm concerned, anything Lucy says is just fine. I've always thought hybrids were particularly attractive bikes, with um very attractive er attractions.
  • Big Wib
    Big Wib Posts: 363
    You could have cleaned your bike for the occasion :lol:

    [Sorry couldn't resist, it's cleaner than mine normally is]

    Is a fixie with flat pedals carried over the shoulder normal for the fakenger? I don't see them out in the sticks you see
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    The flattering from-below photo angle hasn't been quite so kind to Mark* or Alina...


    *I know Mark is a complete whippet in real life so I don't feel so bad saying this :)
  • nation
    nation Posts: 609
    Where are they finding Bianchi Pistas for £150?
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    @BW - :-D Yes it was a bit "mucky", but I think we just got unfortunate on the angle and shot they chose to use!

    @BD - Cheers for that! You should have seen what the poor photographer had to do to get that angle tho ;-)
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,714
    You are Marcus Brigstocke, AICMFP.

    marcus_brigstocke.jpg
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    None of them are really smiling and Bassjunkieuk looks like he's pouring scorn on some ped that's just jumped under his wheels...

    I like sultry girls but that girl on the Ridgeback Velocity looks like she's about to shank somebody.
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    ( a bus driver probably)
  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    prj45 wrote:
    I like sultry girls but that girl on the Ridgeback Velocity looks like she's about to shank somebody.
    Wouldn't you if you had to ride a Ridgeback Velocity?
  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    I'm very disappointed that you mentioned Bikeradar but not SCR :wink:
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  • jemjah
    jemjah Posts: 29
    @BW - :-D Yes it was a bit "mucky", but I think we just got unfortunate on the angle and shot they chose to use!

    @BD - Cheers for that! You should have seen what the poor photographer had to do to get that angle tho ;-)


    ha ha! the photographer is my housemate.... she actually told me about that shot....
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    jemjah wrote:
    @BW - :-D Yes it was a bit "mucky", but I think we just got unfortunate on the angle and shot they chose to use!

    @BD - Cheers for that! You should have seen what the poor photographer had to do to get that angle tho ;-)


    ha ha! the photographer is my housemate.... she actually told me about that shot....

    Did she have to dig a small hole in the pavement first, and then clamber into it with some sort of a macro lens?

    :lol:

    Small world though eh Jemjah!
  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    Just looked at the on-line photos, and they're not the same as the ones in the paper. Accordingly I wish to withdraw my earlier comments and remain in the roadie tribe. :)
  • ylawayjdp
    ylawayjdp Posts: 44
    What about if you don't think you fit into any of those tribes?

    I ride a rigid One-one inbred 29er, with nice fat fast rolling WTB tires, with wide handle bars and its single speed with brakes.

    Does it make me something of a split personality.

    I think it allows for the best of all worlds, fast uncomplicated, comfortable bomb proof and unattractive enough for the brick lane thieves to leave alone.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Just looked at the on-line photos, and they're not the same as the ones in the paper. Accordingly I wish to withdraw my earlier comments and remain in the roadie tribe. :)

    Too late, you're dead to us now.

    :lol:
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    @Wrath Bob - I didn't mention SCR as it's one of those things that could be taken the wrong way, even the name suggests fast riding, which when viewed from someone who is just observing could be rather bad.

    If I did mention both the site and thread we could have been in for a big backlash as people visit it and find story upon story of how we "scalp" other cyclist in rush hour traffic and I can be pretty sure they wouldn't pay any attention to any care we take in doing so or note that all passes are claimed on open and clear stretches of road and just assume it is us that nearly knocks them off as they cross on a red light!

    Having said this the article on "The Game" (SCR's Facebook group) is possibly going to be run later in the week :-)
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Call yourself a roadie??? where's the lycra..pffft

    that was a great opportunity for a publicised bulge shot
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  • Roastiecp wrote:
    prj45 wrote:
    I like sultry girls but that girl on the Ridgeback Velocity looks like she's about to shank somebody.
    Wouldn't you if you had to ride a Ridgeback Velocity?

    Oi! :D I love my velocity, and unlike my ribble it hasn't thrown me to the ground in a "you won't get up from that" way :wink:
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Just had loads more hits for "cycling" in today's London Paper so it appears they are running a section on Get London Cycling for this week so gonna need to get a copy each day!

    Had the usual backlash, a whole column dedicated to the demon that is the "fixie"
    "Since when has looking cool been more of a priority then saving your own skull" the letter author writes........
    Having said that he does mention that it requires a real skill to ride a fixie properly so I don't think the letter is all bad, just that he's had a few near misses with people on fixes, which quite frankly I find hard to believe - even I as a proper bike geek would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a FG and SS if it clipped me in traffic whilst I was walking across the road...
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Just had loads more hits for "cycling" in today's London Paper so it appears they are running a section on Get London Cycling for this week so gonna need to get a copy each day!

    Had the usual backlash, a whole column dedicated to the demon that is the "fixie"
    "Since when has looking cool been more of a priority then saving your own skull" the letter author writes........
    Having said that he does mention that it requires a real skill to ride a fixie properly so I don't think the letter is all bad, just that he's had a few near misses with people on fixes, which quite frankly I find hard to believe - even I as a proper bike geek would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a FG and SS if it clipped me in traffic whilst I was walking across the road...

    Cool!
    However: mutter mutter grumble grumble nothing wrong with FG why are people so obsessed with it being dangerous/difficult...
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Just had loads more hits for "cycling" in today's London Paper so it appears they are running a section on Get London Cycling for this week so gonna need to get a copy each day!

    Had the usual backlash, a whole column dedicated to the demon that is the "fixie"
    "Since when has looking cool been more of a priority then saving your own skull" the letter author writes........
    Having said that he does mention that it requires a real skill to ride a fixie properly so I don't think the letter is all bad, just that he's had a few near misses with people on fixes, which quite frankly I find hard to believe - even I as a proper bike geek would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a FG and SS if it clipped me in traffic whilst I was walking across the road...

    Cool!
    However: mutter mutter grumble grumble nothing wrong with FG why are people so obsessed with it being dangerous/difficult...

    The letter seemed to originate from the fact that he assumes all FG bikes come sans brakes and rely on the rider "somehow" stopping the bike with their legs. He does mention how he also loves watching the bike polo down near Brick Lane - the skill and elegance of the riders is something to behold!
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    He does mention how he also loves watching the bike polo down near Brick Lane - the skill and elegance of the riders is something to behold!

    Presumably he means how they move and ride - their outfits belong on sulky teenagers and fakenger tw4ts :)