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 21st April 2008 | #110 |
 | I'm lovin this whole 'scene' thing, as in wanting to be 'scene' riding a london langster with pink arrowspok. Isn't it about what you do with the bike rather then trying to announce to everyone LOOK I'M RIDING FIXED (as you slap a ped whilst talking on your mobile)?! Fair play to ya if that's what you want to ride. Everyone's got their own idea of what looks good (or bad). As long as you can actually ride the thing and control it without plowing into the back of me at some lights then I don't give a damn. |
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| 21st April 2008 | #130 |
 |  Can we sit sparticus on this splintered beast? no geared, no brakes, in a skirt(!!) and environmentally friendly.. all it's missing is a flame ressistant manatee seat cover What's so bad about Langsters? is there a dark class driven subculture to this "scene". can we compatre scars next?? |
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There's something wrong with the colour scheme that was put on the "London" langster and that is part of the global marketing campaign from Specialized, but nearly everyone on this site agrees that in the price range the langster provides a great starter bike. Why starter? Because a lot of people here customise bikes, build bikes, and want a bike to match them and reflect them. And it's felt that by building and maintaining your own bike that you really have created self-sufficient transport and will have an understanding and appreciation of the machine you ride. Why's the paint job so bad? Well mostly it's because it's hard to connect it to London (or even England or the UK or GB), and it looks like a cheap cash-in attempt on Specialized's part. As if just slapping a union jack on the top tube would make it 'cool'. It was cool enough before, now it just looks tacky. They should've gone for racing green, brooks-esque saddle and things that nodded towards the heritage of british racing and manufacturing. But the bike itself, it's good... for the price and utility. If you have just enough cash to buy a langster, and you are a bit intimidated by building your own bike at this point and just want to try riding fixed/singlespeed... then the langster remains one of the best introductions to it all. | |
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| 21st April 2008 | #133 |
| | Perhaps not. But this entire page and everything on it, all of the other images, all of the text, all of the javascript and css... all added together, weigh 197KB. Your one image was 8 times larger than everything else on this page combined. Over a third of people who visit the site still have dial-up connection speeds of around 44kbps. Without your image, this page takes them 30 seconds to download and view. With your image it takes closer to 5 minutes. All I'm saying is that you can show consideration to other forum users by not directly embedding images above 200KB. Cable, DSL and LAN connections may be all that you experience (me too for the most part), but while a lot of people still have slow connections, let's not make it worse for them. And they're unlikely to go away, not all slow connections are dial-up, that's just the equivalent speed. It's most likely that they're using iPhones, other mobiles, wireless connections, etc. |
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| 21st April 2008 | #134 |
 | i know dave i was messing about...it wont happen again. i bet if we done a poll all the dial-up fiends and iphone monkeys would happily wait 5 minutes to see the 'forkacus' animation :) |
