London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

chris crash · 9th May 2008

read it and weep

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0501/p20s01-ussc.html

Dan(J-D-S-H) · 9th May 2008

"It's a ride built on adrenaline and danger, like walking across a lava flow in flip flops."

ha ha ha ha.

chris crash · 9th May 2008

watch the vid.

chris crash · 9th May 2008

i do have to say No Brakes is a good shop, and the guys that run it are ace.

dirkbang · 9th May 2008

Don't this lot believe in the "healing power of prayer" for everything? Good luck when you fall off and slice part of your body open...

CHUG_IT · 9th May 2008

I like the sound of "asphalt-sailing buccaneers"

Skully · 9th May 2008

Say what you like about god-botherers, their journalists are less lazy than the Observer's.

Alex · 9th May 2008

Started on a shoestring and grew because they are good guys. Last year they were super nice in the 24 hour race (they were a checkpoint).

If ever in Atlanta, I highly recommend stopping by.

shootthebreeze · 9th May 2008

"Fixie riders are often sly and clubby, the very definition of cliquish.
- LOL!
more like fly and tubby

pete · 9th May 2008

posted this last week!! old news!!

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread5411.html

pete · 9th May 2008

and without wishing to start a religious debate.... i wont.

anyway.. the article could have been written by anyone.. its rather funny indeed

tynan · 9th May 2008

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Originally Posted by pete

and without wishing to start a religious debate.. my parents are Christian Sciencentists..i grew up with it. (im not religious at the moment) im 23 and never even had a cold. so either something works, or having parents who are cousins has some benefits.

There is a 'law' (I think it is called 'Poe's Law' ?) which says that religious thinking is so nonsensical that it is literally impossible to determine whether a religious statement or claim is humorous or not.

:)

pete · 9th May 2008

and that way it shall stay! hehe

rather drunk, dunno why i posted that to be honest...

anyway... laugh at the video and ignore religion!!!

Smeear · 9th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris crash

i do have to say No Brakes is a good shop, and the guys that run it are ace.

agreed, mega ace!

Skully · 9th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by pete

and without wishing to start a religious debate.. my parents are Christian Sciencentists..i grew up with it. (im not religious at the moment) im 23 and never even had a cold. so either something works, or having parents who are cousins has some benefits.

anyway.. the article could have been written by anyone.. its rather funny indeed

''without wishing to start a religious debate...''

is like someone saying ''I'm not a racialist [sic] but...'' then coming out with something REALLY racist.

C'mon. No one was dissing Christian Scientists.

If you WANT me to, I can.

roxy · 9th May 2008

Well, riding fixed goes completely against the evolution of bikes so I guess that means they are neo-christian bikes.

whatfriends · 9th May 2008

they dont believe in evolution. hence the fixed, just like the original bike. er except the wood wheels one bigger than the other etc etc.

BlowieBen · 10th May 2008

@ pete
are yo parents really cousins? that'd be crap cos you wouldn't get so many presents at christmas.

pete · 10th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by whatfriends

they dont believe in evolution. hence the fixed, just like the original bike. er except the wood wheels one bigger than the other etc etc.

they do.

and no.. not cousins, twas a topical religious joke...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0505/p02s01-usju.html

tynan · 10th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by pete

they do.

and no.. not cousins, twas a topical religious joke...

+1

The majority of Christians believe in evolution (although it is a slim majority).

whatfriends · 10th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by pete

they do.

and no.. not cousins, twas a topical religious joke...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0505/p02s01-usju.html

Quote:

Originally Posted by tynan

+1

The majority of Christians believe in evolution (although it is a slim majority).

also a religious joke. didnt mean to offend.

tynan · 14th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by whatfriends

also a religious joke. didnt mean to offend.

No need to explain yourself to me, I think firstly religion is poisonous nonsense and secondly I don't think anyone or any one group of people should be given special deference or protection from offense, if I want to call a racist an idiot or a Muslim Imam an idiot I usually do.

No one has the right to not be offended as much as religious groups would like it to be so.

If it sounds offensive, I usually meant to offend. :)

Skully · 14th May 2008

Reminds me of being in the kiddie play area at Viccy park the other day, I was chatting to this dude with a dog-collar on who's son was an AMAZING climber at a really young age, totally fearless high-up on the climbing frames. I (stupidly assuming he was an evolutionist, hardly the case with 'high' types who wear dog collars to the park...) said 'aha there's an example of proof that humans are descended from monkeys', pointing at his son. He was not amused.

tynan · 14th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skullhead

Reminds me of being in the kiddie play area at Viccy park the other day, I was chatting to this dude with a dog-collar on who's son was an AMAZING climber at a really young age, totally fearless high-up on the climbing frames. I (stupidly assuming he was an evolutionist, hardly the case with 'high' types who wear dog collars to the park...) said 'aha there's an example of proof that humans are descended from monkeys', pointing at his son. He was not amused.

:D haha !

These people have skin thinner than a knock off packet of Rizlas.

(By the way evolution does not postulate we evolved from monkeys !)

BlowieBen · 14th May 2008

*looks up postulate in dictionary*

@tynan Really? what other possibilities are there?

tynan · 14th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlowieBen

*looks up postulate in dictionary*

@tynan Really? what other possibilities are there?

We share a common ancestry with monkeys but we are not evolved from them.

Let me do you a drawrin' . . .

Skully · 14th May 2008

Tynan you know too much [cue illuminati assassins]

big daddy wayne · 14th May 2008

TYNAN DRAWERINK TO DISPROOFIMIFY THAT EVOLUTION FEORY

tynan · 14th May 2008

Think of it like this (and I am abusing the word evolve here a little) -
you are evolved from you grandparents - your cousins are also evolved from your grandparents - but you are not evolved from your cousins.

Monkeys are our cousins we share ancestry but are not evolved from them.

Richard Cheese · 14th May 2008

We also share a common ancestry with trees, just a little further back than when we were mongrel monkeys

Richard Cheese · 14th May 2008

And by little I mean about 800 million years

playswellwithotters · 14th May 2008

Let me do you a Drarwin' . . .

BlowieBen · 14th May 2008

what animal/ tree/ primeval sludge is the common ancestor?

BlowieBen · 14th May 2008

ps i feel sorry for monkeys if the all have knobs like that- long, but horrifically deformed

tynan · 14th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlowieBen

what animal/ tree/ primeval sludge is the common ancestor?

We shouldn't stop at sludge, after all no particular point in the past can be said to be distinct to any other. We shouldn't stop at sludge an say 'it all started here', nor should we stop at amino acids, nor should we stop at carbon atoms, any of these would be arbitrary distinctions.

big daddy wayne · 14th May 2008

what about stopping at red lights?

tynan · 15th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by big daddy wayne

what about stopping at red lights?

You need to get in touch with the Chrischuns, I think you may have just disproved speciation through natural selection.

P.S I couldn't see the image you posted above :( (just one of those 'image hosted by Tripod logos)

haj · 15th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHUG_IT

I like the sound of "asphalt-sailing buccaneers"

Yah... i'm going to make stickers with that :)

9th May 2008	#1
chris crash	The Christian Scince Monitor on Fixie Bikes read it and weep http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0501/p20s01-ussc.html
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9th May 2008	#8
Alex	I second that Started on a shoestring and grew because they are good guys. Last year they were super nice in the 24 hour race (they were a checkpoint). If ever in Atlanta, I highly recommend stopping by.
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9th May 2008	#10
pete	posted this last week!! old news!! http://www.londonfgss.com/thread5411.html Last edited by pete; 9th May 2008 at 15:30.
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9th May 2008	#11
pete	and without wishing to start a religious debate.... i wont. anyway.. the article could have been written by anyone.. its rather funny indeed Last edited by pete; 9th May 2008 at 16:16.
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9th May 2008	#2
Dan(J-D-S-H)	"It's a ride built on adrenaline and danger, like walking across a lava flow in flip flops." ha ha ha ha.
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9th May 2008	#5
dirkbang	Don't this lot believe in the "healing power of prayer" for everything? Good luck when you fall off and slice part of your body open...
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9th May 2008	#6
CHUG_IT	I like the sound of "asphalt-sailing buccaneers"
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9th May 2008	#7
Skully	Say what you like about god-botherers, their journalists are less lazy than the Observer's.
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9th May 2008	#9
shootthebreeze	"Fixie riders are often sly and clubby, the very definition of cliquish. - LOL! more like fly and tubby
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9th May 2008	#16
roxy	Well, riding fixed goes completely against the evolution of bikes so I guess that means they are neo-christian bikes.
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9th May 2008	#17
whatfriends	they dont believe in evolution. hence the fixed, just like the original bike. er except the wood wheels one bigger than the other etc etc.
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10th May 2008	#18
BlowieBen	@ pete are yo parents really cousins? that'd be crap cos you wouldn't get so many presents at christmas.
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14th May 2008	#23
Skully	Reminds me of being in the kiddie play area at Viccy park the other day, I was chatting to this dude with a dog-collar on who's son was an AMAZING climber at a really young age, totally fearless high-up on the climbing frames. I (stupidly assuming he was an evolutionist, hardly the case with 'high' types who wear dog collars to the park...) said 'aha there's an example of proof that humans are descended from monkeys', pointing at his son. He was not amused.
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14th May 2008	#28
big daddy wayne	TYNAN DRAWERINK TO DISPROOFIMIFY THAT EVOLUTION FEORY
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14th May 2008	#29
tynan	Think of it like this (and I am abusing the word evolve here a little) - you are evolved from you grandparents - your cousins are also evolved from your grandparents - but you are not evolved from your cousins. Monkeys are our cousins we share ancestry but are not evolved from them.
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14th May 2008	#30
Richard Cheese	We also share a common ancestry with trees, just a little further back than when we were mongrel monkeys
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14th May 2008	#32
playswellwithotters	Let me do you a Drarwin' . . .
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