Michael Hardman

I'm considering selling my bike complete, the time might hae come to pack in riding seeing as I'm goin to be one of those pillarsof community as a teacher in about 4 months time. I just can't find time for riding and when I do like today in London I have a bad wrist/arm. I might let it go for £750 considering the spec and condition of everything.

The tyre runs fine in the back now, last time I tried setting it up I had problems, 3 months down the line and it fits with a bit of room. Ordered new CVM pads or the yellow ones whatever there called these days.

I'm in a matching mood, anyone know if KHE make a front hub the same bronze colour as there freecoaster. I managed to squeeze a brake on the S3 with a KHE tyre n the back.

Now Bush and Blair are a guilty as Saddam, why don't they get the same treatment.

Travels free from 11.45 New Years Eve till 4 am next day. Its tempting to go out for a night ride

The rear hub broke, the nut cold welded to the axle and I destroyed the axle to get the thing off, all started from a puncture. I sold the hub on as spares. O and bike looks clean as I resprayed everything black gloss black. Wanted something a little lower and weighed less. I also have a thing with having Odyssey parts. Bars are for sale, advertised in a few places £40 posted

New bars, grips and I have a seat now. Oh and I ave a coater, Profile died a few weeks back.

Thst an old pic, I have a Street in the rear and a freecoaster as my Profile died a few weeks back. New civilian bars and a proper seat now.

I'm going to the bank tomorrow, I will have fun, then follow that by a trip to the bike shop to get a few things and painting my stem again.

I might be able to make it, depends on the weather and if I be arsed.

I'm ging to stick my PGCE course out even tough I don't feel like going back. Oh and become a quaified teacher. Try and buy less on Ebay and sell more. Convince myself not to give up BMX even though I think the time has come with a professional job and all.

And and and, seeing as I was a trials rider and Mark probably still is (I don't know) thats where our thinking came from.

Don't raw it, blackand raw is getting boring and yes my bikes black and raw and I wish it wasn't. I'm brakeless again, brake pads are worn and wheels busted so brake doenst work very wel, add in no money means bye bye brake.

I was going to come down but its way to windy and London's a very windy place along the river.

Amigo, hola and como estas are everyday words inthe Spanish anguage and not chaved up crap. There al in the Spanish dictionary.

Alans are also poo. Go Pijin, real friendly on the phone and an accent I can understand, oh the good old days or ringing Cleanbikes up.

Not sure if anytings changed on my bike apart from the constant switcing between brakes and no brake. I'm still waiting for KHE to bring out the 1.90 Street tyre. I'm liking pegs again.

I have to be in for 9 on most days and with catcing the train in as I'm iving at home for my postgrad course means I'm up at 6.15am every morning and out the house by 7.15am to catch 3 trains. TdayI'm real pissed off as the Jubilee line was suspended as I got to the Stratford station then I went on the District line and as I get on there are servere delays joke. I'm at uni till 4.30pm most days so its a long boring day with wrk when I get home. I ave it hard for a year but I get paid for doing the course.

3am oh the good days of being woken up by the fire alarm, not being able to go to sleep so off I went to the computer rooms to do my dissertation. Oh the memories, water fights, fire starting, drunkeness, back outs and booze, mooning from the wndow, cucking my tv from he roof (it was broken), riding ym biek in myroom the list goes on.

Yep I know I don't make much overall but the idea behind it was to have a nice lump sum of money to use a deposit as without it a 25k job wouldn't be enough for me to get a morgage on a house round here. is way I'll have a house that is mine and have the possibilty of renting it out if it has 2 bedrooms. I'l be on the propery ladder and as long as I have a job and in teaching I should have I should be fine for the rest of my life. Thats my plan and I'm pretty good when it comes to money and aving it, dont drink that much, no drugs of fags for me. All I have to do nowis stop buying Snap on tools as there for the furute but its not doing my walet any good. With the credit rating I should be fine as I only have student loans and as you said they don;t count, I was lucky enough to ave a job troughout uni and then several well paid jobs in the past year. I have no bank overdraft and my credit rating is fine so far. I found out te more you spend on your credit card the higher your rating and thats based on you paying it backon time every month, which is stupid. Yes it shows you can manage your money but so does not having an bank debt and never going into the red since I ad my own account and card form age 16.

I graduated just over a year ago and I applied for several government jobs but didn't get anything so I went on a wonder and did nothing for a while before pulling my finger out my arse and oing to work voluntarly in my mums school. I realy enjoyed it so started to aply for part time teaching assitant jobs but it was always the same, ' great CV and covering letter but not enough experiance.' I joined a few agenicies and eventualy got work in a few schools, then I spent 5 months working with autistic children, that was an expaeriance and ahalf and I'd like to do it again but as the Special Needs Teacher. So I know I want to teach primary school and I'm busy doing my PGCE at uni, so hopefully tis July I'l be a NQT and be working in a school. I also learnt to save money at uni, how I don't knowbut I'm wel on my way to getting a foot on the property ladder, give it a year and I'll have my own house as long as I get a job. Grab everyday at uni like its your last once you leave you'll seriously miss it, I do and maybe if I one day win the lottery I'l quit my job and go back to uni to study. I found out something intereting when applying for my postgrad course, stundent loans are not like the other type of loan. Interest on them is lower than the interest yuo could earn if you put the money into a savings account. Also in my case the loan I took out has 25 years to be paid back and then the remains disapear for good. So I'm taking full addvantage of tis and taken out every stundent loan possilbe and putting them in a high interest savings account knowing full well I will never pay back more than 1/3 of the loan before it is cancelled. In the meantime the money I save is going towards my deposit on a house so in the long rn I'm financially better off, than I would be if I didn't take the stundent loans. Confussing I knowbut I heard it from an experianced accountant and its al written down somewhere so just search.

Like many of you I go out todrink to catch up with my uni friends and even though were out all night we all still come home in one iece and without causing a nuance. I just think its sad that people go out to get trashed on drink. Make booze cheaper, legalise drugs and maybe mother nature will do the rest and rid society of the weak. orry I'mback to my old crazy ideas.

I agree with the lastic bottle idea. Up the age to 21 and come down harder on the people that se to under agers and the ones thatare of legal age that buy for them. My local has a major problem with underage drinkers, they've been warned enough times and its only a matter of time before their closed down, otherise its a descent gaff.

Ok not going, just been riidng and I'm pissed off I rode shit and Im not going anywhere near Batersea unless Wandsworth roundabout was on route.

If Chai goes I'll come with.