London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=299438

From the post on BF:

Something just looks weird about them, but I can't put my finger on it...

The left pedals are missing their cages. Except on the NYC one where pedals are not required, Fred Flintstone bike.

all photoshop jobbies

Nope, they look shit because they're screen-shotted out of a preview of the 2008 Specialized Catalogue, and that's a .pdf.

The thread on BF has a link to the catalogue, and you'll see that yup they're coming.

Available after November 2007 (at the earliest), so just in time for Christmas.

specialized got them photoshopped then, all the spokes, chainring etc, are all in the position, and i doubt sugino will make a blue mess ring

I hate Langsters - These just confirm it even more.... compact geometry!!! Aluminium!!! what next? Bikes themed by cities where Fixed Gear is cool?!?!? Oh...... It's just happened!

They do a 10spd one: http://www.suginoltd.co.jp/chainwheel_e.html

They have the technology!!!

what is wrong with compact or semi-compact geometry?

On another note: Didn't Giant have a fixie available much the same as the Langster about 2-3 years ago? Hmm.. Maybe I'm thinking of an SS MTB?

they do make a blue one... http://www.suginoltd.co.jp/singlespeeder_e.html

LIghter, stiffer, more standover height.. :P

oops, i stand corrected, but nothing wrong with a langster..as long as you change the wheels, rigid ali fork etc...

Do like photoben and paint it. Then it doesn't look like everyone else's Langster. Simple.

well the london one looks like it was designed by ben sherman, but i like the look of the 'seattle'.

its all a bit much though.

the Bowery, i think

The London one looks sh1t (thats for you hippy) as.... i don't know. Why do we have to have the crap one?

Probably because of some prick in an office somewhere.

31: Nah, it was before the Bowery. WTF is that name all about anyway?!

rkn: F u d< 1 n g cheers mate! :) Forget the London Langster.. just buy a Soma or something off ebay :)

i'd love to meet the survey group their marketing team got their hands on.

they were probably some 20 something graphic designers with a manga fetish and a membership card for the ICA. or washed up ex-messengers or perhaps students?

:-)

I'd rather walk.

exactly the kind of thing i was thinking

The fact they've come up with these 6 is clearly in response to the current backlash against Langsters - "Too boring, not individual, bought by unimaginative chumps who want to pose outside coffee shops" etc.
So in that respect, the point has been missed completely, and will net the owners of these new "off-the-peg-bespoke-fixed-gear" bikes even less respect from the more purist fixed owners/community than the current ones out there.
But Specialized themselves will be fully aware of all of this - I don't think they particularly care who buys them or how they're used. The bikes will shift like hot cakes and they'll make a fat load of money out of it, all off the back of the fact that it's currently cool to pretend to be a courier.

Still, with all these new ones floating around, it might reduce some of my own Langster shame - "that's right - I'm dead old skool, me - straight outta 2005, this one..."

I'm upgrading.. tomorrow night it'll be out of the 70's and straight into 2004 baby!!!!!!! :)

You getting a Langster hippy?

Me? No truckin' way! I need to have something slightly odd otherwise my wookie breaks and my mojo flies away..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170115486306

mmm black phil wood hubs... i love them. i wonder if will/hubjub can get them ...

SJS has them I think.

You might be able to buy mine at a massively overinflated price if I don't like the bike.. ;)

yeeeeaaaahahhh!!!! come on!!!

how was the soma hippy ? has it arrived yet ? nice ride ?

I'm picking it up tonight. Currently sitting at home losing a day's pay for a fscking Sky installation! Grrr!
The things I do just to watch the Tour..

are you cycling back from dartford ? give it a nice work out ?

I'll see how I go. I'm taking pedals and a pedal spanner as well as multitool for saddle height tweaking. Hopefully I don't forget my spuds!

I didn't really want to ride it back if it's raining or getting dark but as it'll be peak hour, geting it on a train ain't gonna happen anyway so yeah, I'll probably be riding it home.

I did the same with the Raleigh. First fixed ride in London and first time on a fix in 2 years and I had to ride it from East to West London. Easier than I thought in the end, except for a slipping seatpost.

good luck look forward to seeing that in the sunshine on londons streets soon