Missing you already !

Missing me already!

Well after almost a decade with the Red Bull, Ive decided to leave and am out of there at the end of the month. I've had an absolute ball but i want to do something new- spend some time in the US of A and Canada, write my movie and spend all day trying wheelies ! As they are rather awesome they have decided to throw me a bash at our offices, where i will be able to robot dance to my hearts' content with all my pals. Im currently making them a double disc CD for my leaving called, "MIssing me Already" and "Missing you Already" so they can play my music on the stereo when i go . I created a game called 'The Hour of Power' at work whereby i used to play 80s power ballads and make the office put they arms above their head and sway along. They will probably miss that. Im not 100% on the content yet but i know that Lionel Richies' All Night Long will be the last track ! Ive ended every party i've had since 1998 with that and never had a single complaint !

Ghost Bikes

There has been a recent campaign to get some ghost bikes redone in London by members of my forum. Our safety on the roads has been on my mind a lot recently; fuelled by Mel's coller bone accident, the death of the girlfriend of a forum member and by nearly witnessing a fellow cyclist being crushed. London is awash with HGVs', all careering towards the Olympic site and along our narrow streets, often seeming to not know where they are going . For me ghost bikes are some positive out of tragedy . If the site of them catches just one drivers' breath and make him consider his actions more then all cyclists safety will benefit in the future.



(image from gorillaphoto)

New shop is nearly go !

Shop 14 , a new bikey shop is opening up just off Brick Lane on the weekend. I'm have decided to go off snowboarding and am going to miss its opening and bloomin ' Valentines alleycat too. Which is annoying, but at least it gives another slow person the chance to get DFL !

The list of what they will be stocking looks amazing and my friends over at fixed gear london are really involved too, including me Julie who has designed a T for them. She also has some of new ones on her Hell Yeah label . I shall mostly be wearing this as a dress , amazing !




Oh and note to weather .. feel free to stop raining, sleeting, hailing or snowing at time you please ! We are done with it now !

i love this more ..

my head is in a spin , my feet don't touch the ground ..

Wow. So last few weeks been a 'challenge' to say the least . A ton of stuff has happened :

SBC entered the rollerace league. We sucked but we can only get better in the Madison at Rollapaluza Kinspin 2 this Friday ... EEK!

Took new whip to Richmond park , lockring cracked .. on hill . Survived but had to get train home. Annoying.

Finally admiited to getting the computers "spinning wheel of doom" and "whirring fan of death" sorted . about to shell out £450 for the repair . Ouch.

oh yeah .. and my kittens' become a teenager and currently is over cuddles. Distressing.

oh well at least Beyonce is still awesome ..



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I said puck you miss !

Best thing to come out of Oz since brunch and invisible zinc ? Answer is Summer Heights High . Tune in !

Everyone alright for Sunday drinking ?

Been a really nice weekend of chilling and some riding. Got the new whip finished so im all happy with that, its such a lovely ride i'm hooked already. With bike 2 finished i decided to take a potter to Tour De Ville for a bit of a window shop on Saturday. LOTS of lovely things in there. Ian remarked that the ideal number of bikes is n=+1. N being the number of bikes you currently have. I agree, you always need a new one.

On Sunday we all met up for a spot of lunch at the Brittania which could soon be a new local. A quiet Sunday roast turned into tequila drinking carnage and dancing in the pub. Its was fun times until i heard that my little Mel went and cracked her little head again pedalling home. Booze pedalling not to be advised. I think im going to knit her a massive beanie helmet to keep her head safe. Get well soon mel ! x

Big bunch of trouble makers .......!

Cycle Chic?

Seeing the response from the London community to Topshops' new window display has made me think a lot about the what heck we all have to wear when we cycle. I have concluded that its bloody impossible to look 'chic' in London when you put the miles in on your bike .. Especially between November and March when you have to face rain, sleat , hail, wind, extreme cold and the ocassional ray of sunshine.

We all met for a burn last night and between us we could have completely beaten this guy in the layer-stakes.

We all tend to favour the tights, jeans , leggings, double socks, boots, double t , jumper, battered old riding puffa, scarf , hat and double gloves combo . You wont find that on a manequin in topshop i tell you.

I will however, shout about a few welcome additions to the cycling wardrobe which you should seriously get involved with if you going to see the winter though.

1. American apparel winter leggings .. warm..






2. Legwarmers - put the 80ss back on speed dial - they will bridge the gap between calf and foot where all the cold air gets tractorbeamed in and makes your toes freeze. Im keeping the colour simple though, lets not get too carried away !






3. Fleece lined boots . Ive currently swapped my vans classics for winter and am rolling in a black pair of vintage leather boots . Im holding out for a pair of these though - toasty!






I conclude cycle chic is hard . It also means you have to stash a second wardrobe at work and you tend to leave the exact thing you want to wear on a saturday in the office on the weekend!

Roll on summer when it can be jeans and a hell yeah t shirt again !

James Bond made me do it !

well check this out ! How can you not have a burns supper when Hoy, Sean and lulu have sang to you to make you all homesick and proud ? How could you not ? ! Ill ignore the fact that Hoy aside, the other two of them probably now live in the Bahamas and that haggis is pretty wrong and dig out the whisky glasses in a couple of weeks time ! 250 years old is very old indeed !

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Merry Christmas!

Just about to pop back on the plane after 5 very relaxing days avec la familia in bonnie scotland . Nice to not have an agenda and to relax with them. We haven't all been together for a long time . Went to local pub as i believe is mandatory over the period to play my favourite game of "Guess whose aged the most" . Thanks to early adoption of sun cream and cocoa butter i do believe that myself and the sister have got off quite well ! Now, its back to London. Hoping to get all waifs and strays together tomorrow so we can have a burn . I've finished the new whip .. almost ... so i shall get to it tomorrow and post some pics. Then, im off to the snow for new year , which im incredibly excited about . I only managed three days riding last year so lets just hope the cycle legs hold me in good stead . OH and the snow is good very good !

SBC in Huck Magazine

Rather amusingly we were recently in a shoot for Huck magazine . You can see the rest of the pics here

check out this its rad ..

J'ai casse ma genou ..

Im cycling a LOT at the moment and my knee is hurting . Ouch . I'm considering some lovely knee warmers for the winter. Purps of course.

In other news last weekend , the weekend of Halloween was one of the most fun Ive had for years. I had the luck of getting to go to two fancy dressers. Friday was a bit rushed so 80s prom queen it was and snow white on Saturday ! On Saturday the standard was off the richter so Ive posted a few of these. My highlight was Mel' who knocked up her outfit in about half an hour before leaving and was amazing. Blue Peter indeed !















It made me all nostalgic about Glasgow from about 1999 where we all used to get obsessed about Halloween at our favourite club night, Optimo. That place fully bought into the yankie dress as whatever you fancy (not a sexy witch,ladies). Good memories of images us all dressed up like Incredible Hulk , a Geisha, Nelly , Princess Di and a Nun all heading out with our friend who always and only used to dress as a cowboy . There was probably Buckfast involved in them days . In fact there was definitely Buckfast involved, it was Glasgow.

Anyway, funny how a little thing can trigger off homesickness . Im wanting to Loch Ness it soon to See padre and madre. I thought i would go to weegie to meet sister in Nov but apparently the train for le weekend is £300. Insania ! So ill be on couch with gato me thinks.

Sunday Times style !

Amusing write up but who cares, its the Sunday Times. A bible of mine since forever.

Looking 'ot foxx !



Foxx (second left ) made the Sunday Times style along with Em , Agata and Estelle.

wheres' dicko ? A trip to Berlin

So im just back from a weekend with Sam , Dicko, Foxx and me Julie to berlin. It was officially awesome which was good news.

We had to get up at minging o clock on friday (3am) to get to the airport . Would have been fine if foxx and i hadn't drank a ton of red wine with ians' amazing dad whilst bikey dismantling and trying to keep the gato out of our bike bags the night before.

We arrived safely though apart from Sam's bike whose chainring got squished on the way out (thanks ryan air). this meant she had to hire a dutch bike all weekend - thank god she does triathlons as bombing around on that tank all weekend looked exhausting ! I stupidly left my camera in the office, so i felt like id lost an arm most of the weekend, so many beautiful things to capture out there. So without many pictures to show, only thing i can really say about Berlin is GO THERE!

Cheap to drink and eat, super laid back people , nice pretzels and amazingly nice and well organised flea markets and vintage shops. It was my dream cOme true.

We stayed at the worlds nicest ever hostel . They even let us build our bikes up in reception

. I vote yes on it !

We also hooked up with some of the people from the keirin cafe and their forum . They gave us a wee tour on the friday which was jolly nice of them . Welcome in London anytime !

here are a couple of pics - ill post more when i steal some !

Tim and Gend rule ..

Ive just returned from Austria, where i went in "team mum" capacity to cheer Gee and Rach . Cp and i even made signs ! It was 25 euros and 45 minutes of cardboard and ribbon frenzy but i think it was worth it , i have been threatening to do it for years . I forgot to take a single picture which is very unlike me but we did end up on the dirt website .. not looking my best but heh, you cant win them all !




2 days of solid rain , 5 billion jaegerbombs and fun times,austria party followed by a stop for what can only be described as a "danger cycle" we headed to the red bull student conference where we were to present what we do to about 150 new student brand manager recruits . Only hitch in the plan was that i got flu ! Two days of lying in bed only to get out to do my presentation and roll my eyes at the carnage happening outside my room (no luck, i was in the room beside the bar !)

So anyway we did the usual when we were there and filmed a music video with the kids - a favourite of mine 'Together in Electric Dreams' by the Human league.

After a week in the mountains all i can think of is . God i MISS snowboarding ! Im really excited about it this year - I managed 6 weeks in 0607 and only 3days last year , such as my schedule went . Oh well, i have 4 weeks left to take this year so im plotting holidays with heather this weekend . i want to go to Bali in november for a wee surf and then morzine for hogmonay and new year. Sweet jesus, i cant wait . Im thinking as funds are the purps /blue outfit combo shall live to fight another year !


Talking of the soon to be ultrafamous and lending mee a tenner pals .. this is still my favourite music video of their ever ..

Meet Jim Lightening !

WOO HOO . I just bought joe a brother .. and he was cheeeeeap on ebays ! again ! woo hoo ! He wont look like this when im finished with him . He'll look even better !

summers over ..

Usually this time of year is when we start to think about snow and about the end of summer. Since we didn't actually have one i shouldn't be sad about the changing season but i am ! gutted . Also, my whole office has come down with some type of man flu which i seem to have contracted, gutted x 2 !
Another reason to be sad is that after 4 months in cinemas sex and the city is nowhere to be seen and i am thoroughly disappointed that i didnt manage to go see it.

Maybe its "the recession" that's making me miserable ?! Ill never claim to be an expert on such things but it seems to be an utterly self fulfilling prophecy on many accounts. The media tell us how bad it is and we stop spending and everyone pees their pants about it . Anyway, i went out an bought some rad patent heeled brogues in protest at the recession today . that'll teach you Gordon Brown .

amsterdammed

I went to amsterdam. Saw 2 fixed gears which is 1 less than the number of steaks i ate . It was so nice to get away , ive been grounded for so long i've felt like concorde. Rose wine, cappys, bikey times , pottering in rad, super well organised vintage shops . Es bueno.

oh .. and i met a new bikey friend ! We had fun !