London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

Spotted, a girl called Becks/Bex friend of RUDY on here, riding a very nice SS Rossin, we chatted about bike shizzle whilst I was rolling down Old Street drinking a can of Lech :)

Yorgo today while we were out on the Espresso ride.

Chatters today near Ealing Common on my way back from caffeine overdose.

lech is good, but tyskie is the one

some bird trying to race me all the way from clerkenwell down the start of hackney rd. nice one.

a guy on a red modern geared Merckx, eating my dust from Parson's Green to Chelsea

sucker

haha, that is pretty funny actually

a guy coming down jerningham road at like 8 o'clock friday morning.
skidding all over the shop.
cap on water bottle mud guard, but im afraid i forgot the colour of the frame.
:(
black or white?

loads of fixie skidders outside that pub on Vikki park road after the fireworks.. There was LOADS of you... I was with walkengers all racing back to my flat to use the toilet so didn't come and say hello ;-(

hillbilly & miss socks in camberwell with a massive swollen face from infected toothness yesterday. nice to see your lovely selfs

The raleigh geared bike with only a front brake. TWICE today!!!!

Stix on Green Lanes. Yeh, I know it's a re-spot but it was me not that fakenger Emilia who spotted you. She's got a head full of jolly robins that one.
I spotted someone else this weekend but I forget who. You know you guys all look the same after a while. Young, bearded, possessed of a quiet confidence, some kind of bike with bits on it, wheels, possibly a stem...

Right now right outside my window, The Queen Mary being towed very slowly down the river by three tugs. Apparently they're taking it to La Rochelle to become a floating luxury hotel. I used to have a monthly meeting on that. Good sandwiches. Well, lots of sandwiches which is good....

N.B this is the Clyde ferry Queen Mary that's been moored by Waterloo bridge for years not the mahoosive ocean liner of the same name. Still quite a substantial thing for the river. They're still going to have trouble getting it under Blackfriars bridge I reckon. All the masts and funnels have been cut off but they're sort of stalled waiting for the tide to drop by the looks of things.

http://turbinesteamers.awardspace.com/QueenMary.htm

A smiley Brayley riding a Bakfiets full of flowers this morning through Piccadilly - good morning!

Me smashing my Average speed PB for my commute this morning, whilst carrying a heavily laden bag:
Laptop in hard case, power supply, full tool kit, krypto fag chain with lock, and my lunch for the day.

5 miles, 15 minutes, 20mph average speed.

Put a smile on my face this morning :)

^ You can thank clipless pedals for that. :)

I reckon so, after getting them set up properly, and getting my shoes sorted etc for my legs, I am mega in love with my cliplessness!
Everything is just easier, more efficient, and skidding is a piece of piss compared to clips/straps.

Jacqui sitting about 15ft from me in my office... Weird but nice... :]

Geezer with Chrome rucsac on nice blue Italian roadbike conversion through Bermondsey this am, trackstanding at various lights. I had a chrome rucsac too, stupid bobble hat, yellow and green fifties path bike. Watcha.

Also someone outside Goldsmiths stopped at the kerb with a familiar-looking red Bob Jackson, old block decals in white, I spotted a silver Phil on the front...

Hi.

There was quite a good write up of this on http://www.cyclingnews.com this morning.

It'll be interesting to see which pro team makes the best offer.

I've already turned down Colnago.

I changed back to clips and straps this weekend so I could wear some 'normal' shoes. I'm putting the Aliums back on tonight, burning my Sylvans and keeping a pair of these in my pocket when I want to go out dancing. Clipless for-the-frickin'-win.

I've switched back to Atac Aliums after getting fed up of carrying a spare pair of shoes and switching to clips and straps and I must say I've fallen in love all over again.

Spotted last night on Farringdon Road, a lady cruising along on a SS multicoloured Condor with rear Spok.

saturday, just after dark i was leaving downham and turning toward the south when i got a nice smile from a girl on a ss/fg being followed by her chap It was far too dark but that kind of simple, "hey, ooh another bike rider" smile is nice.
Sunday afternoon Bmmf and Tynan on clerkenwell rd (?) he was "allright"

Selim, working hard collecting a package from my workplace.

@Brendan - I was concentrating hard, as you tend to do when escorting an over-active 3-year-old on a micro-scooter across Old St (not Clerkenwell Rd).

That was a very responsible skid stop, BTW. It's so refreshing to see someone not riding like a twat on a fixie-type bicycle.

Outside Wholefoods on Parkway on Sunday afternoon, a nice tall person wearing sidis and a big bag and with a blue frame, approached the lamp-post where I was unlocking my bike, just as I was leaving. You said, 'may I join you?' I was thoroughly impressed with your manners, young* man. Give yourself a biscuit.


*ish

Nice to see another - a rarity in the area I live - proper fixie skidder ;-) Bombing through the traffic jam on Romford Rd., Stratford around 6PM.
It was too dark to see anything, but there're some fluo green deep-vs, messenger bag, d-lock and possibly a Condor cap?

Slamm this morning on the OKR.

George sportif and sorethroat looking for university clunge while i was enjoying a pint with maxcrowe

Hope your hunt was succesful guys

Unsuccessful in that we found no student bodies. Successful in that we had a nice ride to Richmond and back. Unsuccessful in that I fucked my knee (Probably due to the cold). But again successful in riding all the way home one legged from Big Ben!!!! Nice to meet you guys.

Also, spotted another fixie skidder on our way out. Probs around Putney area? Green frame, drops, chrome bag, longish hair, ohoc, gsoh, for fun, frolicks.... oh wait, sorry, not the gumtree singles page. There were 3 of us, you overtook going up a slight hill.

Clunge!! Underused word.

Hi to the girl on pug conversion I rode with from Oxford st to Notting Hill last night. You need to change those batts in your back light (as i mentioned)!

exactly what my thoughts of you were, the last thing you need to be doing when your telling your 3 years old to concentrate on crossing properly is start breaking the rules yourself.

George, what day was this? Girl or boy?
Sort of meets my discription and i would be super stoked if ive been spotted...

Meant to mention this earlier, but Forum Stalwart PJ(PJ) in Bristol this weekend.

The man is a witch, as I'd just come onto here (via the lovely Mac shop in Brizzle) asking whether anyone had his phone number anymore, when lo, two minutes down the road, I spot a yellow Bob Jackson being unlocked by the familiar PJ figure.

He looks and sounds much healthier than he did when he lived in London! Anyway, he's talking about coming back up to the city, for a visit, maybe to coincide with Cornelius Hotfoottingitaroundtheworld's leaving do.

On top of that, lots of Bristol HipsterFixieSkidders at the SW Regional Rollapaluza heats.

This was last night and it was a guy

Damn... Not me...

got a friendly/homoerotic smile from a dude going no-handed across the junction from commercial street to great eastern street, sorry i didn't smile back, i got momentarily confused.

Spotted a bod on a lovely Pink frame, Mercian (i think) New rd/Commercial Rd about 6.16 last night. Me going sarf, you norf. We mutually nodded a smile at each other, hello :)

jacqui?

Happens to the best of us, remember you're only gay if you smile/push back.

i guess i'm not gay then

lol get your head down and ride hard.

Ha, good to meet you guys. Glad to hear you had a good ride.

Dunno mate. Nice ride tho' white stripes on down tube a'la Mercian, Campy cranks, spok card. And of course a nice friendly smiley nod.

le car stopped and on blower at the arrospok exchange on hipster higway ;)

Small gathering of urban fixolords on Shoreditch's trendy Famous Old Street in London UK at about 19:00 hours trading football stickers and talking about how many wheelies they've probably done.

*trawls forum history for new clipless members vehemently defending clips and straps*

Or if you have your eyes open - important get out that one

rik resplendent in a very fetching merinho/synthetic combo on Tower Bridge this evening... You looked tired, good buddy... x

Jacqui was working with me yesterday, pretty sure she wasn't on the bike tho'... She was clobbered up all sexy-business-like in the office... I'll ask her... We coulda had a mini Mercian ride at lunchtime... Bitch!!! ;]