Keep pushing your luck Aussie.. BLB? That's a great idea! £450 for retro machine.. :P

this was me a bling bling outside the tattoo convention. anyone buy bikes parts of these dodgy characters!?


... you can buy bike parts of dogsballs and robertos? Cooooooool I'll have one of each.


...p.s. hey up Matt, yup that was my mate estelle on the chrome pista, you whacked your white risers on yet eh Toro?


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ah wicked. yeah i thought i saw you inside, but your all-clad-in-black-in-the-dead-of-night ninja techniques meant that as soon as i turned around to say something, youd vaporized. loved the note tho - quite touching!

xoxo, me.

yeah skoota, rocking the FGLDN bars, veery nice. will we be seeing you at bike polo any time soon? there is a rumour that we'll have a bbq rolling on sunday.... hmmn.

Girl on a pink/yellow little wheeled fix being escorted by a dude on a white deep-v'd bike up great eastern street this morning.

me and the little lady i think. haha! i work from home, so i like riding with vic in the morning, get to the 'office' refreshed and lazy.

I am not 'escorted' thank you! I can ride just fine by myself, without a chaperone... or stabilisers either ;P

vic i see your bike down at bike polo all the time, geez it's soo cute :D

Heh thanks... sometimes I feel like its a bit of a circus bike or something. I guess that makes me a circus midget? I'm have new 650 rims coming so I will be a few inches higher from the ground soon. Then I can play with the big people. Haha!

your short so what. you can join in any time. what wheels? a bit of bling?

you saying vic is short? you saying my girl is short? eh? are you? eh? *gentle shove*

yeah i challenge you to a dual :p , thank god you've taken the mighty bullhorns off otherwise i'd have no chance ;)

Well hello to you both.
If I see you again I'll shout something appropriate.
I am currently masquerading as a ped as my bike is incomplete.

I'm not that short I suppose (5' 2"), plenty of people shorter than me ride bikes bigger than mine, but I think it's better to ride something slightly too small than too big for you. I don't know the general opinion on that though - what do other people think?

Rims wise, just bought deep V's, grey ano 28h which I will be having powdercoated baby blue (like the Celeste colour Velocity currently do). My bike will be, er, pastel bling! I really should have gone for a 32h to make the hub search easier... but these were cheap, and I can get quite cheap Suzue hubs for them I suppose.

I did play polo once. The mallet came way up to my elbow

i saw no-one this morning, at all. it was 6.30am.

does anyone get up/ride to work at that sort of time?

1....... 2........ 3......
PISUMO!

JOL please do shout yes - I reckon we all just keep quiet too much when we see other fixie folks we don't know. I hardly ever dare to speak to people I see on my commute. Mo shouting mo friends. Or soemthing

Sometimes. I try not to be out of the house before seven though.

re: the ninja gear calitos: 2 schools of thought, motorists see everybit of you. or nothing at all... shhhh whoosh. gone.
i will try to come down to polo on sunday, BBQ oh yessss.
i wanna see this famous circus bike. I also 'found'/'saved' a polo bike but its not cleaned yet. Just realised its a raliegh bomber!

i spoke to a south african once on my commute after he nearly got hit by a lorry running a red light at the worst possible time. i gave him some genuine, heartfelt, subtle advice and asked if he was ok. he threatened to kill me, in a sort of boer-frontier-eugene-terreblanche voice. since then i've been a bit more reticent.

oh and i think i saw andy cavendish cycles, riding what looked like a flat bar cannondale, WITH GEARS, and a whole heap of boxes in some sort of impromptu bungee arrangement. moving house, apparently.

I see people riding fixed all over the place, I tend to look at them like they are a piece of shit that someone's just walked in.

that stops 'em grinning. the fake bastards.

apart from the odd glimpse of Monsignor Bicicletas, I don't think I've ever seen anyone I know (unless already riding with them)

ha! fucking boers. anytime someone asks me my nationality i tell them i'm a boer with a dead-straight face and they just look really fucking confused.

I try to test the water with a nice gentle "morning" or a nod or summink, but mostly get vague scowls from the courier brigade. Unless something stupid happens like almost running the red with two bicycops (aka 'pigs on wheels') sitting at it, or nearly being cab-fodder. In which case y'all are the friendliest lot in the world!

"Mo shouting mo friends." Anyone else foresee a London overwhelmed by confused pedestrians and hollering cyclists?

brilliant

all my saffer mates get called Boers. unconditionally, all the time. they love it.

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Saw edmundane off my bike today in covent garden, I waved and he walked straight past me on the same side of the road and didn't say anything!! :( You looked kind of serious, hope nothing bad had happened!

Saw someone with 2 green deep vs last night while riding no-handed. Smiled, then tried to wave as you went past the other way and very nearly lost control of my bike completely. You probably thought i was a spacker.

didn't think. knew.

EDIT - wasn't actually me. i'm just being mischievous ;-) i don't ever see anyone except the courier brigade and no one ever spots me cos my bike ain't cool enough, apparently. i do see andy and the cavendish lads a lot, tho - very helpful people, thanks for helping my mate get his single-speed fixed the other day (if you're reading).

shit really, sorry mate! where was that? i went to magma for a bit probably was that time? i normally look at bikes not people if not i should have recognised you! and probably lost in a sea of thought after reading some books for inspiration...

Call a Boer a Dutchman - they'll really love that

saw 2 fixies chicks this morning. one riding a white genisis and another with dreads walking a gorgeous deep red/chrome 80's holdsworth?? track frame with track drops on new cavendish (west end)

man - you've got the best commute. All I ever see are fat sweaty blokes trying to puff their way past me on MTBs.

same here, hence the surprise!

mornin. i saw a few folk i think. a friendly chap that looked kinda familiar spotted me going around arnold circus, saw a dark haired lady on silver frame, white drops (?) heading along old street from shoreditch highst, and an interesting looking dude on an orange frame, pretty big, ornage bull horns and a orange (i'd like to say hockey) helmet. hello to you all.

spooted (not spotted) @ kingsland rd, heading norf, about 9.30 this mornin...

yellow (almost safety yellow) track frame, dude in near-matching yellow safety jersey, nice wheels and oh-so-quiet. strange thing was his seat tube - dont know who makes them, but theres a girl who i see around on - assumedly - the same make; the frame is monotone, while the seat tube has a contrasting color spiraling down it; in his case his was yellow with black detail (sweet!) and in hers, its pink with white detail.

any one know who makes thesa frames? is they custom?