Grace jones, a blast from the past.  Playing "Slave to the rythm" on the radio, good times.

I just realised that the blog "Phatman on a bike" doesn't represent me at all, you would assume by the title that I am indeed a fat man on a bike but to clear things up it's a play on words.  My nickname has the word "Phat" so "Phatman on a bike" was born.

Monday mornings are always such a delight, I always take the lift on the Thames underpass as my legs aren't quite ready for the onslaught of the stairs, maybe when the warmer weather is here and my rucksack is lighter I'll attempt it.  We were all standing patiently for the lift when it eventually arrived to find a homeless guy fast asleep on the bench.  I'm not one to judge as I've been homeless myself, it's not nice and people tend to treat you like shit when all you need is some help.  People have no idea how homeless people end up in that situation but due to alot of bad press some of the more genuine cases get a bad reception.  Anyways, the guy was absolutely sound asleep and snoring hard and reverberated around the lift.  A couple of the other guys on bikes started chatting, something us cyclists do which motorists can't do and they mentioned that he's there regularly, the bench is a "hard" wooden bench and somehow this guy has fallen asleep on it ?

Good bit of news in that the London Bike Show is on this weekend so will book my tickets for that on friday, should be a good event to go and see, pick up some freebies etc.  Talking of bikes, my two month old Triban & has developed a problem and I'm not sure if its the rear bearings or the crank.  We've had alot of rain the past few days and the bike has developed a knocking/grating sound like a ballrace has dried of grease or sand has penetrated the crank.  I turned the bike over last night to oil the chain and chain rings up last night and as I did water poured out of the downtube so I know water has penetrated the inner frame so maybe has gotten to the crank.  I'll give it a day or two to dry out properly and see if it's still sounding bad, if so off to Decathlon to get it checked out.