London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

finally saw a 2007 london langster in flesh on the road today. i wasn't riding when i saw it maybe i should count myself lucky it's so ugly i might have fallen off my bike. that dude's got long straight hair the saddle's set way too low and coasts way too much.... ugh. what a match.

i've seen two, both ridden by really ugly men, one of them looked like tim robbins in hi-fidelity, wearing birkencrocs or something similar if i remember.

was in evans (replacing an innertube 2nd puncture in 5 days) and saw a guy buying one, apart from the red rims and hubs, it isn't the prettiest bike in the world. Was upset for him, wanted to let him know he could buy something different. but just huffed over my inner tube and bit me tongue. Beauty's in the eye of the beholder dontcha know ;-P

they should make birkencrocs with a pedal spindle for the uglies. then they don't need toe clips or SPDs...

I don't know- If it didn't have the london tube map thingy, wasn't a specialized (though i have nothing against specialized- its just they always get nicked-- at least my two mtb's did :(
But the white bike with a red rims and hubs is quite nice (and incidentally if anyone knows of a cheap as chips bike i could convert (white) i'd love one.)
But i agree the whole thing is fairly ugly. Though not as bad as the others (boston and NY)

its true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

as I behold it, the new Langster is one ugly looking bike...I don't mean to diss, but just aesthetically it is all wrong imo...

i think it may have been bikesnob who compared half-taped bars to being like a dog's erect penis, poking out of its woolly sheath.

i saw an emo riding one down edgeware rd the other day, word bro!

I saw a courier with one outside evans today. Not my cup of tea; i like mine sweet

Yeah I saw my first one today, probably the same bloke. Put me right off my lunch.

PeterD : you sure that's a courier not a fake-fakenger?

ha ha unless he was taking it to the next level with the radio. I guess evans isn't the choice of the courier...but he looked like heed been caught out with a puncture or summit.

What a shame to shell out 400 pounds to be the but of everyone's jokes.

what fuckin courier bought a langster london?!

A really cool one.

he's sending it.

he's out irony'd the ironic

Firstly, hardly anybody rides a bike
Secondly, hardly anyone who does rides a bike rides a fixed wheel.
Thirdly, most of those that cycle with a fixed wheel probably have never seen it or heard of it.

Maybe thats the next big thing for realengers-
Buying a fakenger- special and riding it for work. hmmmmm.
I loved today, it was perfect. Sun + pretty girls + london on a bike= life is good.

i just saw one today as well, just a min ago


they look even worse in the flesh,


WHO designed them.......who!

Papa Ray would have done a better paint job

what'd I say!

gonna be your dog!

Funny I was just saying the other day to someone how ugly I thought the Langster London was.

Tim Robbins wasn't in Hi-Fidelity.

At least ppl are riding bikes. Thats a plus.

er... yes he WAS. he played laura's new age boyfriend, the one that comes into the shop and they fantasise about smashing him over the head with the cash till.

i accept your apology, when it arrives.

i wouldn't hold it against him, didn't he one get busted for driving a car??? or something stupid.

Yeah. I knew that really. I was just checking you did.

Wasn't he taking another blind man for a spin?

[EDIT: Maybe that just happened in Black House...]

It looks like the set design for a London-based episode of a US sitcom.

I expect the Duchess of York rides one.

I just saw a courier on one.
Around Berwick st.

is it a well made bike though? it is very easy to change the aesthetics

from what i understand its pretty well made.
But just looks ridiculous.

i don't like the look of the old ones anyway but do remember seeing one on FGG that a guy had seriously customised and it looked alright. anyway, will never be my cup of tea anyway as only ride steel.

What do you think of the rest of the range

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCEquipPopup.jsp?equipimage=/OA_MEDIA/2008/bikes/9084-92_l.jpg&equipmodel=Langster Boston

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCEquipPopup.jsp?equipimage=/OA_MEDIA/2008/bikes/9084-93_l.jpg&equipmodel=Langster Chicago

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCEquipPopup.jsp?equipimage=/OA_MEDIA/2008/bikes/9084-96_l.jpg&equipmodel=Langster Seattle

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCEquipPopup.jsp?equipimage=/OA_MEDIA/2008/bikes/9084-95_l.jpg&equipmodel=Langster New York

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCEquipPopup.jsp?equipimage=/OA_MEDIA/2008/bikes/9084-91_l.jpg&equipmodel=Langster

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCEquipPopup.jsp?equipimage=/OA_MEDIA/2008/bikes/LANG_Sworks_Red_FM_7780-60.jpg&equipmodel=S-Works Langster Frameset

They can't be aimed at anyone serious.
1. A tube map, on the London model (!). Most people ride bikes to avoid that fucker.
2. The cab theme of the NY model, also. If London is anything to go by, surely NY riders aren't the greatest fans of cabbies either...

I think the seattle one is by far the worst bike i have ever seen.
in second worst comes the 'Gangster' from chicago- sales line- 'If you ride this bike, you'll get shot' (getting shot is cool).
Then the NYC, then London.
Boston is the best of a terrible lot.

Makes me think of The Fifth Element more than New York.