London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

There was some excitement on this so i thought i would get a thread started. i'm thinking central London ride 1:30 pm

Will work on a route but input would be nice, thinking through the west end and the graden, over w'loo bridge, then back up to the right side of the river ending at a park some where E1ish
some one creative want to make a spoke card?

also could this be a sticky?

Nice idea, i'll come along.

yeah i am in.

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too many "E" postcodes for my liking ;)

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sticky it should be.


we could put it on that blog, then anyone can turn up.

April 1st is a tuesday BTW, might be better to do this on the nearest sunday

"i'm thinking central London ride meeting 6.30pm at the Foundry Pub On Old St."

isn't that an oxmoron? the last time i was there old st wasn't in central london wouldn't somewhere in W1 WC1 WC2 be more central?

Count me in

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Agree that the nearest Sunday might be a better idea than April 1st but would make either.

and make it a daytime ride.

more inclusive if we don't need lights

yeah, why does it have to start at 6.30? just start it at lunchtime, and make a day of it.

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but theres less cars in the night

Of course I might be up for this but it depends on if you decide Tues or Sunday or what..

Could have an April Fools ride on Fri April 4th.. just for a joke, like.

i was going to be nice for people come from the city, and the west end...

sunday day time might be a better idea, but then polo...

would people be more up for Sunday meeting speakers corner?

fuck polo, it's a memorial ride for sheldon.

and not a race either so cars don't matter.

come on, it's a slow ride with a pub stop that includes everybody who wants to come

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lets do sunday the 6th, allows us to flyer for it at cm. ill change the first post.

good idea.

we just need the designer ponses to make something

I'll look into routes when I've got some time, we can agree on a start point later

Don't just flyer it at CM... inform the LCC, and let all of the blogs for London cycling know, as well as the key bike shops, and also the key London cycling clubs (VC Londres and London Dynamo at the very least).

It should be an open, slow ride for all cyclists to participate in, and not just fixed gear nutters.

What do you think the 'C' in EC2 stands for? Fucking suburbanites...

you know the letters don't mean much.

SW2 is hardly west! there should be SC, C and S postcodes if we're being pedantic

SW2 is west from where I'm sitting (as I'm being pedantic).

bloody east end hipster pedantengers..

thats what i had in mind.

....what the hell is an oxmoron....a bit unfair really ,cattle are known to be dumb anyway, without rubbing it in.

It's now in the calendar.

thanks hippo... you going to be coming then? on the spesh? i want to see it up close... really really really close.

For a fiver you can touch it. For a fiver you can touch me.

Not sure what I'm doing that Sunday. It'll probably clash with something but I might be able to shuffle. Too far away to tell.

put it in the diary now, frat boy.

does that mean that no one is going polo

Sheldon, died, BLIMEY, who are we going to ask now...? RIP SB

I'll be along for some Sheldon respect (assuming I haven't injured myself snowboarding the previous week - which is always likely). Now just need to find an eagle for my helmet.

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it's only central because the first post office was near st pauls so the codes radiate out from there. the center of Laahndaan Town is trafalgar square everybody knows this even the tourists.

Charing Cross: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/08/15/charingcross_feature.shtml

so antipodean cockmuncher are you suggesting i am wrong? or confirming i'm right? it depends on whether your read the page you link to ;-)

"The original cross was south of Trafalgar Square where the statue of King Charles I now stands. A plaque can be found on the floor behind the statue stating that mileage distances on road signage are still measured from this point."

and all street numbers in london radiate from this point too.

I thing i may go and sit on this point cross legged and go uhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I merely posted a link, from which the reader can deduce whatever they like.
So really, whichever makes you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside, you bowler hat-wearing nonce.

you make me all warm inside :-)

proposed route

thoughts?

looks good, especially the pub bit!

im in

Enough of your sexual shenanigans..

My only comment on the ride is that it is a bit short. We could cover all of that in about 30 mins or so, no?

Oh and also, Oxford Street is a disaster zone. Never go there.

mashton: The ride starts in Birmingham in honour of the game's inventor, Charles Darrow.

The length is dictated by the amount of hipsters who will be in attendance.
There are far more coffee shops and public houses on the route than have been indicated in the map.

This is a two week ride.

it should be a VERY slow procession

Uhh, this is the Sheldon thread, not Monopoly?

Is hippy losing it?

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interesting ... was thinking of naming my newest (as of yet, still needing the front wheel to be) built ride, the captain, also in honour. perhaps this would provide an excrement time and place for a debut!

ouch!

I started drinking again today.. it will take some time for my body to readjust. ;)
Apologies Sheldon.