London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

nothing wrong with the concept. but seriously charging £250 is outrageous. £100-150 then fair enough.

also they are not called couriers, they are curryers ;)

Er Jona, that's precisely what you said a few posts before that people shouldn't do ;)

So, we have dani2uk who makes and sells the bikes, and Thor who probably is a friend of dani's and signed up at the same time or thereabouts. Both doing just as Tony Dafoney and others have tried to do so which is to repair their online reputation after it has been besmirched on this forum by the collective membership.

The question that seems to evade all of these bike builders is "Why do they slag our products off?", and in this case dani2uk and Thor the answer can neatly be summed up as "The bikes you advertise are soundly unsafe without a second brake on the rear wheel.". That is, a single-speed bike should at least have a secondary braking mechanism. It's all fine and dandy having a fixed-wheel bike without a rear brake as the rear-wheel itself is the brake via the fixed-gear.

As for the price, anything is worth whatever people are willing to pay. If you have a market for your bikes at the price that you advertise them at, then wonderful. Forum users might not like that fact as they know that they could build/convert similar bikes for cheaper, but they're failing to account for turning a profit as the majority do such things for their friends out of the joy of doing it and seldom think to turn a profit. Good for you that you can, good for us that we find enjoyment in doing it for our friends.

But yeah, put another brake on your bikes by default. Do that and you'll find that none of us would care what you're up to... well, mostly we won't... we'd still slag off the aesthetics, but that's just beauty being in the eye of the beholder.

Well are you SLAGS ready then???

LOLOLOLOL

LOL Typical was going to wind you all up and I cant paste a pic .......doh

thanks ;)

you are wheelcome

I can hear you all baying and slavering (?)

Hee Hee

what's your point caller?

lol soz must be a wrong number

well we seem to have a fault on the lines, folks, so here's Creedence Clearwater Revival with their epic version of Heard It Through The Grapevine:

"Oo, bet youre wondring how I knew bout your plans to make me blue
With some other guy that you knew before?
Between the two of us guys, you know I love you more.
It took me by surprise, I must say, when I found out yesterday. oo,


I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine.
Oo, I heard it through the grapevine, and Im just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.

You know that a man aint supposed to cry, but these tears I cant hold inside.
Losin you would end my life you see, cause you mean that much to me.
You could have told me yourself that you found someone else.
Instead,

I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine.
Oo, I heard it through the grapevine, and Im just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.

People say you hear from what you see, na na not from what you hear.
I cant help bein confused; if its true, wont you tell me dear?
Do you plan to let me go for the other guy that you knew before? oo,

I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine.
Oo, I heard it through the grapevine, and Im just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah."

aah.....marvin....RIP

The best .............. I am touched that you have dedicated this classic song to me RPM.

And in response here is one for you

Remember when you ran away
And I got on my knees and begged you
Not to go because I'd go berserk?

WELL,

You left me anyhow and
Then the days got worse and worse
And now you see I've gone completely
out of my mind,

AND

[chorus 1]
They're coming to take me away,
Haha, they're coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm
Where Life is Beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those Nice Young Men
In their Clean White Coats
And they're coming to take me AWAY,
HA HAAAAA

You thought it was a joke,
and so you LAUGHED, YOU LAUGHED
When I had said that losing you
Would make me flip my lid,

RIGHT?

You know you laughed.
I HEARD you laugh, you laughed
And laughed and laughed
And then you left,
And now you see I'm Utterly Mad

AND

[chorus 2]
They're coming to take me away,
Haha, they're coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the Happy Home with Trees and Flowers
And Chirping Birds and basket weavers
Who sit and smile and
Twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to Take me Away,
HAHAAAAAAAAA

I cooked your food,
I cleaned your house,
And this is how you pay me back
For all my kind unselfish loving deeds

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Rear brake? OMG.. What a loser..

Firehose? Did they cut your hair with napalm or something?

Ahem ... cough cough .... All Single Speeds MUST have a rear brake.

[quote] jonaent (Jon):Arguing with tynan (small 't' - capital 'T' is my son) is one of the only reasons I frequent this place. Life's boring without other opinionated wankers like me to shoot the shit with. But apparently he's busy riding his bike these days instead of posting - understandable with what's round the corner... ;)

Hurrah for 2 brakes! 1-0 to sound forum advice!

yeah well
um um errrr
OK
But I was gonna do it anyway .......so there

His bike is something special, too. If you like insane colours on a track specific bike used on the road by a non-courier with an unnecessary carbon front wheel, plus specifically powder-coated parts and drops without hoods :)

the only thing missing is that he rides with a front brake, otherwise his bike single-handedly gets on the contentious side of pretty much every argument generated by this forum - now that is an achievement.

Also, bmmf, how do you know jon didn't in fact have an argument with your son? :P

it was the creedence version man, you have to give it a bit of..er..creedence! it's really rather fine.

anyway, you're listening to LONDON fgssFM, this is RPM in the evening slot before I hand the chair over to The Big Guy, the fat man from a land down under, the hippiest hippy in the west..

Ok, we're still taking calls on this evening's hot topic, "rear brakes on singlespeeds".

what are your views? do you approve or disapprove?

are you a rear end person all the way, or does a rear brake make you ache?

give us a call and tell us your stories about rear brakes, were you brought up by a campag mirage? did you marry a dual pivot only to find out he was really a caliper?

don't touch that dial!

LMAO

ok hacked, as you seem to be missing getting grief for your bikes -

you sir are a cad and a bounder of the highest order peddaling your jerry built velocipedes with scant regard for the gentlefolk of the shire.

better now ya one-brake wonder :^]

err yeah hi, um well yeah I had this single-speed bike, it had two brakes... AND THEN IT MARRIED MY FATHER

LMAO
good 'un

so, asm from Newcastle..interesting story..

do you think there's a chance you might have any half brothers or sisters, running around in the north west?

maybe they've got japanese names, or italian?

Me and my friend ........well partner really, we are both commited single speeders ( been an item for 5 years now ) and we wondered whether it is possible for us to get some advice on adopting a BMX. I am certain we could show it the love and respect it would get with a straight couple and give it a happy caring environment in which to develop its own choices in years to come

I once caught my father yelling down the phone at someone... he kept saying the word "shimano". To this day he won't tell me who it was... at the time he was dating a circus bike.

yeah, come on fella, this is a family show. nobody wants to hear that kind of language.

so, rear brakes eh?

essential for stopping on a ha'penny? or a load of rubbish?

they say "one in the rear and you'll have no fear" but what do you really think, still got time for one or two more callers

before the "human gorilla" takes over

lol soooo funny

hahaha one time, one time, one time on the rewind!

watch that coke man, last time you split a bottle the maintenance guys had a terrible time wiping your knobs off

liking the new haircut hippy

the napalm line really suits you :)

Sorry, I'll be more careful next time..


Oh, we need a new maintenance guy. The last one quit for some reason.. ??

hmm, dunno why that was.

maybe he found your secret stash under the desk?

those aus sweets were getting a bit ripe

If I remember rightly, it was essentially tynan getting defensive about the middle class having a right to wave their privilege in grease monkeys' faces, and jon getting defensive about grease monkeys' rights to get defensive about the middle class expecting the same service as anyone else.

Tynan, on the other hand, only tends to get defensive if you try to take the middle monkey out of his greasy hands while he's classily waving it in your face.

you missed out the constant misquoting and editing of posts.

i know how Tynan feels, monkeys are great. I'd get pretty pissed off if i had a monkey, even just a toy one, and someone tried to take it away. Your son was definitely in the right, jon had no grounds for taking his monkey!

Amazing cover!

i had a monkey on the front of my bike, kinda of like the mermaids on the front of old galleons. it looked mint. then some crack head (i assume) in camden stole it off my bike. a soft toy monkey. i was upset.

That's what hipsters do, no one is safe.

do they also resurrect old threads?

I like old threads

pengy!

also feel sorry for whoever bought this for £300:

http://singlespeed2.angelfire.com/02.jpg