.....the FIXED WHEEL. The BBC will have news slots for Ragi Omar to come back into the investigative fold, uncovering this new sub culture and drawing comparisons to when skate boarding hit these shores in the 1980s.

London will be full of beautiful shiny bikes, looking beautiful, bought off the peg and draped across boozers in the summer sun. Lots of peeps riding said bikes badly, probably brakeless without the skills to walk and chew gum let alone handle traffic.
Then some young pretty things will get killed.
Then Gordon Brown will dither for a few months before banning bikes lacking in number plates, flashing lights, bells, training wheels and riders in kevlar body armor.

Muppets on bikes are dangerous. Muppets on Fixed Wheel?

Fcuk it.

...the dutch shopper is the next handbag. Fixed is dead.

Agreed 101%

...the summer of Numpties.

Well, if the last couple of days are anything to go by, the wobbly fair weather dithering asshats are starting to come out and the roads are going to get v busy when it gets properly warm.

I know it's all biking & it should be all good & everyone has to start sometime etc etc, but really GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY.
The horrendous grinding & creaking noise of 7 months of rust being forced round the drivetrain, the puffing red-faced gurning needed to power an apollo 'full-suss' with 2inch knobbly tyres along at 12mph - it drives me mad.

...and Yes, you can fit through that gap.

hahaha, spot on! :-)

the summer of love as all the beautiful sweet smelling (no stale beer or cold chips) Parisian girls take to the streets of Paris on their velibs

I hope

it will be

the summer of:

better weather than we had last year.

otherwise there won't be much opportunity for these bikes to be "draped across boozers in the summer sun"

Dude we didn't even HAVE a summer last year.

No, wait, we did. It was two weeks long in april.

good friday was a sunny day, then it seemed to go on for a month.

I don't think it will be this year somehow, which might be a good sign for a proper summer.

the problem with sun early in the year is that the days are still too short to make the most of it, I'd rather it rained when it gets dark at 4 or 5, rather than all through june, july and august

at least ebay will be looking up come winter.

..sketching down the road to hyde park corner :D

lol

I get gap-fear sometimes...

HTFU asm

I think it harkens back to some nasty childhood experience with a mountain bike and a slighty ajar field gate, but that might just be me romanticising.

its down to your being a wishy washy artisy type, and not hard enough for the mean streets of london ;)

Yeah, maybe i'll do an abstract painting of my fear, then do a performance where I ride my bike towards the abstract painting and then stop because i'm scared. :)

ride through the painting....

Then what would i sell?!?!?!

your fear...

sell the concept you'll go far.

like bansky, omg he is soooo street, and it sells, it sells well.


and ill only take my 11% for the idea.

Im off to Antarctica in July so my summer is going to be pretty cold (unless global warming is a lot worse than I imagined)

Are you taking a bike?

fucking cool,or what?

This has opened up a whole new realm of possibilities!

hang on, i reckon there's a derailleur tucked behind that wheel...

it'll be an all metal one then, that bike has no plastic parts, due to the fact the extreme cold would shatter them

and you'd want gears, for the Antarctic I reckon.

not cos of hills, but the wind...the fucking wind

Rocking. I'm going to the Arctic next week. Fuck snowmobiles - gotta get me one of those. Also handy for 'summer' in London.

I want one for Chicago in the winter

This is how most people get around in northern Norway. Brakeless is dead. Wheelless is the way forward.

I think the big question is whether or not you will be riding brakeless or not. ;)

Yeah, I remember getting proper sunburnt at Herne Hill!

Charge Plug is bike number 1 in Independent "Top 50 bikes" supplement today. Tipping point?

@ adoubletap - is the article online? Linky?

^No it's in the listings supplement.

no just badly researched journalism