London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

This would be a good idea. I'm in. Where? When?

Lord Stanley.

fuck yeah, that's my local. great pub, sweet.

where's lord stanley?

on york way, just off camden road at the top of the hill

We went there on this pub crawl:
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread1449.html
ASM lost, then found his wallet there.

ok. i like north drinks. sounds like a plan...

was it the lord stanley that was confused with a 'ghost pub' in that thread?!

i can do now and tomorrow night but then i'm in korea for 10 days so i'll probably miss the first one :(

that was such a good ride.
ahh halcyon days....

This is the maths on leaving the pub:

Long Hill on a very busy road + fixed wheel + booze + night time = mayhem !

no need to be alarmist!

The idea of the Flask at the top of Highgate West Hill has also been touted up a couple of times. Then you'd have to earn your beer through 2 mins of sweat and pain ;o)

My local too, walking distance in fact. Which is good cause I don't have a bike just now. I'm travelling back home tomorrow. When I get home tomorrow evening I'll check this thread out, and if it's on I'll come down.

John you and Mike should come. Stay round mine if you want?

Not many days left in the week either.

I'm open to other suggestions. I'll have to ride my GF's minifixed up there.

Alarmist moi ?!

I am going to be waiting at the roadside with my video gear and tripod to capture stuff for 'Britain's Funniest Fixed Wheel Drunken Wipeouts' on 'Dave'.

£250 a clip, reckon I can retire on the footage I get when you lot drag yourselves out of the pub.

:)

How about somewhere more . . . level ? :)

There is that clump of pubs in Primrose Hill behind the Roundhouse on Camden Highstreet - The Engineer/The Princess of Wales/The Lansdowne/The Pembroke/The Albert ??

The whole area is pretty much traffic free, residential (posh) wide roads, so ideal for drunken round the block 'Pub Keirin™'


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lord stanleys a good choice, right next to cantelowes too.
with the flask id be more worried about going down after the pub, highgate hill is ripped to fuck aswell...what about the steeles?

Same here, beer + that hill = the Royal Free.

The Steeles would be good.

Yeah that's cool with me. I had a massive family argument once in the Engineer.

Christmas !? ;P

Mothers birthday. Apparently I was being loud?

Did you deck her ?

:)

That is what my mum accuses me of (being loud) after a couple of pints - on the rare occasions that I end up in the pub with her.

nah, just didn't talk for a while.

Yeah, that was one fucked up night..

Anyway someone come up with somewhere, and a time. After 8pm would be good for me.

If I remember, we had been drinking and then rode straight there? Didn't my brother fuck off with the keys for the bike lock?

I was sat in the Albert (on the same road as the Engineer but about 200 yards nearer Regents park) with a friend on a little round table near the door, there was a quiz going on, then in walked Richard Dreyfuss, I shit you not, sat down at our table (the whole place was a little crowded) and said, offering out his hand to us - "Hi, I am Richard Dreyfuss" (as if you wouldn't know!)

It was surreal !

Apparently he was in a play that was going on in London and most of the other people in the pub were from the production team (he thought we were too).

Spent the night talking about Jaws, beer, bicycles and stuff.

Very surreal ! Nice bloke.

We're going to need a bigger bike.

Yeah he did fuck off with the keys, roastmare to get them back.

(His brother, not Richard Dreyfuss)

Very good :D

I actually laughed out loud, much like the popular internet 'lol' might suggest !

:D

Love Dreyfuss.

Should have started singing

"Show me the way to go home"
I'm tired and I want to go to bed
I had a little drink about an hour ago
And it went right to my head

in the event that there was beer + that hill at least the whittington is at the bottom, its looking all fresh and new now too they can fix you up proper (no pun intended)...

tomorrow night, 8.30, lord stanley...?

can probably make tomorrow. has the stanley got outdoor heating yet?

not sure, probably not methinks.

It didn't when MA3K and I were there Sunday gone.

I'm down.

Anyone else? I'm sitting here refreshing like a muthafucka!

I'll check back when I get home tomorrow then.

Latez.

It was in camden!?! Explains a lot. Me and aidan spent ages looking round all the pubs between islington and holloway. No wonder we couldn't find it. I must've been well pissed when we reached it. I don't even remember how I got my wallet back now.

yeh build man i've been waiting for this thread for aaages. i'm up for it!

tynan should definitely come too, it would be a night to remember.

sweet. the pub is between holloway and camden. i would say it's more holloway actually. i'll be there for half eight but only for a couple as i have a long day tomorrow.

damn, can't make this week, will this occur regular like?

if it is nth, there is only one option and that is the flask in highgate, one of the oldest pubs in nth london with a monstrous beer garden. end of story!!

is that the one near finsbury park station, that has a huge multi-level beer garden, kinda like the best backyard fort ever?

wow these tags are somehting else...

N4 is alright apparently.

The one with the multi level beer garden is the Faltering Fullback and is a cracking little boozer. I can't make tonight but next week would be cool.

N4 is my endz. Safe.

I agree, the flask is perfect. Lovely beer garden, completely safe for bikes. And downhill all the way home for most people

we're not all going to hell!