London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

passed a guy on a baby blue fort lo pro at oldstreet roundabout / clerkenwell road petrol station.

Chinese/Japanese guy on a sweet black and yellow Omnium frame, all black and yellow components, racing me down Jamaica road in a no nonsense drag sprint from the lights :D I got tested especially after 5 days couriering in this weather, I ended up having to pull a slightly dodgy rlj to get ahead

Oh yeah and I had to use the riser bar aero tuck, 1st time in ages!

yesterday bout 7 ish
Marrrrk, and Lal on there way to sainos.
and emilia coming up to the lights at dalston junction... nice bar bag. the condor set up it looking pretty sweet.

Oh, you should've yelled! Mind you, I was concentrating on my steering, which is surprisingly difficult when your bar bag's full of Red Bull, Soreen and a jar of jam. I think I'll repack it with lighter stuff for Dunwich.

like lights? :)

i thought i heard a skiiiid from somewhere! unfortunately i was distracted by trying to drag my breakfast filled belly up the incline. haha.

Yup, t'was us heading into the depths of Soho to start a drinking binge, as is usual on a sunny Friday evening.

You are the dude in green t-shirt desprately trying to do a backward 180 turn in front of the crowd yeah? Spotted you outside 14 on Thursday too.

Are you the new addition to the team? Don't think we have met.

heh. i'm hillbilly's better half. so purely by virtue of the amount of time i seem to end up at grobag towers, i'm probably part of the family by now! haha.

I think i burned past fluff on wednesday on my way to work. Sorry, would have said hi kate, but i was at risk of running late. :)

Haha yeah 6 cans of beer weren't really helping! i've landed them before but not quite got em consistent yet

What seemed like everyone, Broadway Market/London Fields yesterday. No idea wtf was going on, I was working. The stuffed toys on poles intrigued me. Hope you all had fun!

Not much riding this week, but a few spots abroad, nice baby blue brakeless being locked up by a Eurocrat in Brussels earlier in the week and a fair few ss/fixed gracing the streets of Stockholm.

this!

Yeah I knew the DD was on but I didn't see what huge stuffed toys on poles had to do with it. Is it cycling jousting? Please tell me it was cycle jousting.

I didn't see any of it, but wouldn't stuffed toys on poles be more likely to have been part of the Mantathlon?

Reeen this morning in Tooley Street doing his Raleigh Burner impression and some guy on a geared who touched my bum before turning left. I assume you're a forumenger and not some random dirty getting your bum-kicks. Was hard to see your face.

Nurseholiday, having a go at me via text for sleeping at 2.55am!

Do you stake out that stretch of W1? Or a fan of the cheeky after-work pint at one of the many pubs around there?

That was me, I could 't remember you name so I poked your bum (strange logic I know), not geared though just fully unhipsterised fixed bike.

Hey there. Sorry, was just a bit spooked and proving to myself that I should go have my eyes tested as you were just a blur when I rode off. Didn't you just miss a ped?

:)

Great. So now a precedent has been set.

I feel nostalgic for the more innocent "Do a skid" days of yore.

Hmmm, not sure I like the idea of bum poking being the new secret handshake!

I'm rubbish with names, works for me

I just like bum-contact so I'm down with it.

Yep, quite slowly though, I was too desperate to poke a bum and hnece became distracted.

ha, that'll be annoying for The Ticity_most spotted_Bendix ahaaaha.
... if one could only catch her, that is.

temper, nice meet up place at that traffic light there at Tooley corner Tower Bridge , i alomost exclusively spot SE peeps there 1st row lurking for a gap at that set of lights.

Bluequinn three times in 20 minutes on Chiswick High Road enjoying his Steve Goff, while I was not enjoying myself being a walkenger. First time you were a fair distance from me and the second two you caoguth me by surprise, otherwise I would have said/shouted hello.

Split inbetween the first and second spots was the sight of Dec from Ant and Dec pedalling furiously on a MTB. He's the fatter, shorter one of the pair.

hael yesterday on oxford st.

Strider @ Bike Whisperer HQ

How was the first ride man?

London Fields is looking pretty crowded these days... You east bitches should move down south... ;p

I hear all the nice folk live south...

You heard right... :]

hell yeah!

Course mate!

Was that Walthamstow on saturday?

In case anyone has missed it...

2009-07-11 Sat - Emma Memorial ride
In memory of another life tragically taken from us on the roads of London, there will be a memorial ride on this date where we will visit the spot where Emma passed away, I have spoken to Riccardo, and he will be writing a small piece about Emma and her Life which will be recited at the Stone Circle (the usual critical mass starting point). Beginning at 6pm, we will start/finish at this point taking in sections of Central and West London to hopefully offer a very visible presence, and give Emma a worthy send off from her fellow cyclists. I'll be planning the route over the next week, but help with printing/laminating of spoke cards for this would be much appreciated. Tell your friends, tell your colleagues, tell your loved ones, tell everyone, see you there.

Update:

Start at the stone circle (southbank) 6pm
Route through central London including accident spot in Holborn
Finish at stone circle approximately 8-8:30pm


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<bikeradarcommuting>Sorry larged-legged mtb'er dude. You lose. Hahahahaha. Good effort though.</bikeradarcommuting>

I had a very hairy mountain biker overtake me on my way home last night. I tucked in behind him and took him on the rise and left him.

Don't mountain bikers wax their legs and backs?

Depends. I was never a serious mtb'er.. single-speeders would only do legs in conjection with back sack and crack and only when extremely pissed for a dare. XC racers though... they'd take their eyebrows off if they thought it would save some weight.

White Coppi, black rims and purple hubs. Avoiding pedestrians on Great Marlborough St not 10 mins ago. Nice ride!

Old St. roundabout - some guy with newish HED3 rear and purple bits (post) on bike.

I do believe that it is the duty of any hirsute people (male or female) who decide against bib shorts, to ensure that they do not expose a hairy arse to me when cycling. I do not like the sight of hairy arses.

Loic, I believe, shooting across the Acre lane to Clap Pk Rd junction on a geared bike this morning. I think you shot me a wave but I was too half asleep to respond in time; still surfacing from the Dunwich mong. Hello, mate!

+ eleventy billion. You too can fight against the war on crack - buy bib shorts.

This morning - Sam on the Hammershit roundabout - too late to shout as you bombed past on your Brompton.

Someone on the Mall - Purple bike with Bright Pink Spok on the front. Fess up.

Spotted lots of knob 'eds who've been watching too much TdF.

coppers at 15 out of the 20 RL's i have on my way in vans behind, on motorcycles next to, on bikes in front of me aaaand crossing the street. dat must have been the slowest run to work ever form me, i never stood around so much. what'ssss going on, did i missed something?

English class maybe?