Riding down Lillie Road in Hammersmith towards Old Brompton road (just passed the traffic lights between Lillie Road and Fulham Palace Road) and some cheeky mofo on a white genesis, a flyer I think, thought he would overtake me.

On my Brompton I swiftly picked up the cadence and overtook said cheeky rider. And then the bastard overtook me at South Ken tube because of the bloody red traffic light and a car in the way, stopping me jumping it. :(

If you're on here, you really need to sort out your chain tension. It was rather loose, you could see how slack it was from a mile off.

Ok, I know I'm riding a Brompton (no way am I leaving my fix outside my uni hall overnight in London) but that doesn't mean I'm some slow old fart. I'd like to think I'm pretty fast :)

"because of the bloody red traffic light"

"I'd like to think I'm pretty fast"

the lady doth protest too much, methinks.

i'll ignore the "i swiftly picked up my cadence" because that's the one thing bromptons can do. from nought to 8 mph in about 3 seconds, maxed out.

there's a place for these red light stories isn't there...

8mph maxed out? Err yeah.

can't think why he chose to overtake you.

:P

Today i saw sarah (I was going into the old bailey as aidan (turd) ran gaily towards you), and aidan apparently saw muna too but i was too busy talking to someone. In fact aidan saw far too many people for 20 mins of walking! I think he knows every single fixed-wheel bike in central london.

Edmundane - it was just before the seven dials i think, as you were heading towards magma like a man possessed :). I like how you're still wearing the london bicycle film festival t-shirt! :)

were you found guilty?

Nope. We did here charges placed against someone who had allegedly murdered one man, then attempted to rape and murder a woman though. He pleaded not guilty. I didn't realise that courts are open to the public all the time, so you can go in whenever (the court is open) and listen to a case. We were lucky (?) in that both the cases we saw were rather serious/interesting. Or maybe unlucky is the word. It was pretty serious stuff!

I saw Caspar and me riding down Camden Road at 3.30pm.....he and I found cover before it rained then cycled home in the dry.

You can find the proceedings for the Old Bailey trials from hundreds of years ago. Some of them have map references and stuff. Here's one from when Camden Town was jus' a little village with fields and cows.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
I find it fascinating.

Before the drug dealers came ...

On This Day in 1736...

Jane Cooper allegedly killed her new born bastard baby by wrapping her too tightly in a bundle of clothes.

It was pretty dull hearing about how regularly the other guy walked his dog (4 times a day?!). I think he was charged with owning illegal firearms. Or possibly murder with aforesaid illegal firearms.

Ha, the Taxis were still hanging out at the same place in those days!

Asm and Aidan... on what looked like a school trip to the Old Bailey ;-)

um, yeah, thanks to my flatmate who went to sleepover at the girlfriend's for a whole 4 days and left a machine full of undrained laundry that started smelling like mushrooms, right when i need to do the laundry... how come you weren't with turd aidan? i would have spotted his HAIR :P

Yellow Holdsworth with a big set of bars (mustache?) tied up outside of the HSBC Regent St.

Right, i think we have all seen each other.....lets just give it a rest.

and dodgy youths trying to sell marlboro's at the back of sainsburys :p

that photo is as old as my holdsworth :D , thank god there is no more trams, imagine the chaos the death with cyclists

doh. so bad with names, nicknames and faces. and bikes too. sorry hippy, it was badrider.
there are two chaps who ride along old street, one i saw yesterday and one today, both matt black plain frames (make? dunno) with yellow deep v's and yellow wrap, cept on has drops and the other bullhorns. i saw an excelllent pale blue? roberts outside the gallery on columbia road last night (the show about the toaster fellow), white 3 spoke areo? front with white risers and gold finger? nice ride.
plus a hello to laura who bumped into vic and me this morning on clerkenwell road.

saw some hip tall dude with a beanie on commercial street this morning, riding a smallish white Vivalo, brakeless, white aerospoke in front, purple deepV at the back. One of the cleanest bikes I've seen in London. A bit of a cliché of fixed-gear trendiness but nice.

Cool little orange Massi + Surly Steamroller + red and chrome Harry Hall all parked near me in the chity
This morning: Blue fixed? with no rear brake but large flat rectangle plate rear brake mount. Also, guy with 'big hair' riding west on Old St. followed by three other fixers. Also, one tired fscker on a heavy GT trying to get to work quickly with polo gearing.. oh that was me.. ;)

Brixton 8.39am: Asian dude on a black IRO Mark V, deep Vs, some lycra action swinging left past the Ritzy onto the roundabout...
Brixton 8.40am: Cute dreadlocked girl on a pink frame with deep Vs heading north past Macdonalds...
Wish I was riding, I'm not on the bike today, takin' my girl out later... Tube was fucking awful! :-(

that would be french patrick from Glorias

I figure the fact that I cut down Lamb's Conduit St rather than coming along Theobold's Rd limits my opportunities to spot or be spotted significantly. Certainly if the number of fixies I spot when I get the tube and walk up from Holborn is anything to go by.

mush on here!

Black bob jackson, green deep vs bout 8.40 this morn

Nobody ever called me tall before? I think thats another Vivalo with white aerospoke (will have words)

everyone tall compared to yorgo :p

I love that picture of yorgo (in Japan thread) stood next to the tall girl ;-)

people call you hip alot?(if i were to describe you,im sure hip would be a word used)

Hip replacement maybe...

This photo has been cropped so that you can't see the group of smelly goths queuing up to get into the Electric Ballroom.

Shiny red Wilier parked next to the three bikes I mentioned above. Must be city workers coz they haven't moved all day..