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Green Oil UK Limited is a family run company based in Bromley in Kent. From product ingredients, to the bottle deposit scheme, to the recycled boxes used for wholesale orders, being green is central to all we do.

Green Oil has won awards for performance from the cycling world. Green Oil UK Limited, the company behind Green Oil won a Bromley Environment Award and was recently short listed for innovation in the BikeBiz Awards 2008.

Our cheesy slogan used to be ‘destroy limits, not nature!’. The slogan referred to destroying your limits of skill, stamina and speed, yet without damaging the environment with nasty toxic chain lube. However, this wasn’t inclusive of people who just wanted to ride to the shops.

Our new slogan isn’t calling for a military coup, so don’t worry. The revolution we all need to join, is one of making the world environmentally sustainable. Within this, we need to use bicycles more, and embrace the ‘revolution’ of all those cogs.

If people continue to use toxic chain lube indefinitely, future generations will have more pollution to clear up, aquatic life will suffer and cancer will spread. PFOA, a byproduct of Teflon, the ingredient used in many chain lubricants was classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a ‘likely human carcinogen’ in 2005.

If companies continue to use deforestation paper, and generally operate for short-term profit at the expense of the environment, the future will not be good for us, or for future generations.

We at Green Oil UK buy back our bottles, use sustainably sourced ingredients, and use recycled paper in the office. Our packaging is easily recyclable. For example, the plastic labels now used are the same type of plastic as the bottle, making recycling more efficient and reducing label contamination in the recycling stream.

End dependence on pollution join the revolution!

Simon Nash the founder of Green Oil, will be joining us on Tuesday 23rd March from 7:15pm onwards to give a talk on the company, how it all began and where it is going. He will also be giving demonstrations and a workshop on how to get the best from all the Green Oil products.

If you would like to come down and have a listen, a free beer or innocent smoothie and maybe get your hands a bit dirty, then email us at carnabyst@howies.co.uk or ring us on 0207 287 2345 and reserve your ticket!

I really like this.

Fixed on the road. BMX off the road. Perfect.

Joe has ridden for howies for a while now, the new season is nearly upon him and schedules are being planned, races booked and fitness tuned. Here’s a little bit of fun he had on the wee bike riding around the streets of his home.

Dear Rider,

This just a heads up to let you know that entries for the 2010 howies Dyfi Enduro will opened at 10am today. Spaces are limited to 650 riders.

We have been busy working hard to ensure that the 2010 is another one to remember, bands, films, beer, good food and a long ride in the woods. No better way to spend the May Bank Holiday weekend.

Cheers for now.

The howies Dyfi Enduro team.

My lights busted.

I sent them back to 2Pure and they worked on them but they could not be fixed. They tried hard.

So they sent me a new set which came yesterday, and they really light my way home.

Thank you 2 Pure

I have fallen out of love with the cross bike. Bit heavy, bit slow, bit too drop bar.

I only ever use it to ride to work in ice or snow or when the road to work floods to knee deep.

So during 2 lunch breaks and telephone calls that just require chatter the drop bars got ditched and flat bars, bar end (i have not had a pair of these since my first riser bars in 1995) v-brakes and new grips fitted.

Rode it in this morning and felt that I had a new bike.

Gotta get rid of the kelvar tyres now which feel like riding on deep pile carpet.

been a bit slow with this one seein as thought theres only a couple of screenings left, but one of those screenings does happen to be in Cardigan tomorrow night, i also just realised tims already posted about this but a little reminder never hurt anyone…

The Banff Mountain Film Festival is uprooting from the mothership festival in the Canadian Rockies and will shortly be heading for the UK to tour to a location near you.

As well as climbing flicks, there will be a selection of other brilliant mountain based films featuring mountain biking, skiing/snowboarding, whitewater kayaking and speed flying (a cross between paragliding and skiing including some incredible aerial footage as they descend Mont Blanc). Full details of the film programme at each venue, as well as more information and how to buy tickets can be found at http://www.banff-uk.com

As well as seeing some great films, you can also win some great nightly prizes as well as go in the draw to win a 7 day Mont Blanc trek. A bar will be open at all screenings before the films and during intermission.

we just received our first delivery of the new epic denim water resistant jeans and have been busy all morning installing our new window display, here’s a little sneeky peek of how it’s looking so far, more pics to follow!

me and jeff are getting a pair each tomorrow, so we’ll keep you all updated on how we get on, now all we’ve got to do is pray for a bit of rain!

Two documentaries I’m looking forward to this year:

Bad Brains Documentary, in final stages of production

Chasing Legends, documenting the 2009 Tour de France through the eyes of the Columbia HTC team

Any I should add to my list?

Jeff.

Kim sent round an email this morning warning the Cardigan lot that she and Ade had been experiencing a few punctures lately (probably due to the building work going on next door) and warning everyone to be extra vigilant.

Kim i feel your pain, I’ve been having the worst luck recently and punctures have become the bane of my life, in this week alone i’ve already had 3, the amount of glass that get’s stuck in my tyres is unbelievable. I have to empty them over the bath each time i replace an inner tube.

Interestingly enough i also just found out this little fact …

“Punctures come in threes; if you get one, you’ve a 46.8% chance of getting another each time you go out until you reach your three”.

Maybe my luck is about to change!

can anyone beat my 3 in a week???