London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

is there anyone here from the cities of scotland such as

Perth?
edinburgh?
Glasgow?

edinburgh but i left before the accent took hold.

i've seen perth on maps but i think it's just a rumour.

stay in london.

haha perth aint no rumour, i will have you know it used to be the capital of scotland, way back in the day.

im moving to london providing a find a job in the industry i want to find a job in, hopefully in august.

i will install sat nav onto my bike, i will need it in london i reckon.

sat nav, haha, instant "rob me quickly" sign.

its called an A-Z all you need

me and one of my friends were thinking about going up close to the top of scotland and cycling back down to glasgow over a few days, need to make it happen though.
you londoners should come catch some fresh air and join the trip.

sorry i can't understand your accent.

IVE NAE GOT NAE ACCENT!

and ACTUALLY i was born in boston, lincolnshire and stayed there for a year!

Im from near Glasgow!
Any of you lot coming to the millport race this year?

the thing in glasgow the night before was good last year

millport race?
what happened the night before?
and finally....what bike you ride?

Its once a year
http://millportpoloco.blogspot.com/

It was just a race round some roundabout on a friday night, i didnt race becuase it was the first time i had ever taken my conversion to glasgow haha

I ride a blue Iceni track frame, but its unlikely youve seen me, i live in greenock, so not in glasgow too much on the bike

although ive been cruising around on my bike in glasgow for like the past two years i dont really know any of the 'fixed crew'
im getting a fuji track 08, ordering it at the start of the week i think and it will be the first fixed ive owned! had a shot on a bike called "Allegro - track" in melbourne which was rad.
ive been playing around in photoshop to see how i can modify it and this is what ive come up with that i can do as soon as i get it.

chop and flop?

i say leave the drops, you will love them on hills and head winds.

I there a 'fixed crew' as you mention in Glasgow?

I'm in glasgow at the moment - seems to be more fixed riders & more cyclists in general now than when I lived here. Lovely old Bob Jackson outside the State Bar last night and I had a nice chat with a chap (called DJ?) riding a beat up raleigh banana. I liked him for the simple reason that he had the same cycling shoes as me and I love my shoes.

yeah, there does seem to be a crew.

if i am going to have drops on my fuji i want those.....i dont know what to call them......the ones that are one smooth continuous curve, like as soon as it leaves the stem they curve, is there a name for those type of ones?

like the ones in this photo

http://www.fyxomatosis.com/gallery.php?gal=17#14

they be the some proper track bars your on about then,
Hubjub do nice nitto ones, and cinelli ones come up on ebay now and again...usually wide sizes though:(
I had the nitto b123aa's from hub jub in 36cm, them were great

how much are they from hubjub?

£45!
Id say worth every penny though haha

There's been an explosion in the number of singlespeeds up here over the last six months - invariably ridden by awkward-looking art school types - but fixed wheels are still rare beasts. I can can only think of a handful of fixed spots in the last 12 months: a dreadlocked courier girl who seemed to disappear from the roads when summer turned to winter; a whippet-like old roadie on Great Western Road; a bearded guy, who possibly was a courier, at the bottom of University Avenue (that encounter wasn't embarrassing at all. :-) ) and an On One Pompino just off Bothwell Street. Fixed wheels are going to be achingly trendy up here, too. It just hasn't happened yet.

You don't even see off-the-peg bikes on the streets. Hate Langsters? Come to Glasgow, cos you'll never see one outside the confines of a bike shop.

I saw the Banana last year, but never with a rider on top of it. Have you got your bike with you now? Only I just overtook a young lady sporting a single gear at the bottom of Queen Margaret Drive. If you say yes, it means I've made a spot. Feel free to lie. :-)

ive seen the girl with dreads around quite a few times and ive seen a few fixed folk here and there.
i also saw that on one bike strapped up outside oran mor on byres, looks quite nice.

i should have my bike infront of me and built within the next week and a half me thinks, so if you see a fudge 'track' 08 and a person cycling it with ginger hair and occasionally a green quilted jacket, come and introduce yourself...

couple of old photos i took in Glasgow.

wide bars= more leverage= faster ride.

Blonde dreads?....if so...she's hot!!!...and a damn good rider too...:)

a mate of yours soctty?

I don't know if I'd say blonde, but quite light, yeah. I saw her filtering down a queue of traffic on Great Western Road once, from a bus-top vantage point (you cannae stick a dog in the back pocket of your jersey, you see.) Anyway, she did it a lot faster than I'd ever dare to.

she used clipless pedals aswel so she must be fairly confident i imagine.

been lurking but thought i'd pop up to reply to this thread (hi):

i ride round glasgow, i've got a plug with flat bars, green timbuk. i've seen quite a few other riders/bikes. there are a load of other plugs going round, most ive seen have been freewheeling tho. theres a massive sized bianchi pista i see parked up at the uni, often see fixed riders when im in gear on gibson street- girl with dreads, guy with a nice old bianchi, but i run away. there is a group of riders i think - the millportloco people, but ive never met them. from when i first found out about fixed a couple of years ago to now there has been a massive increase in the number of fixed bikes i see, but its still a tiny number.

weirdly there is also a strange empty glasgowfgss.com forum just sitting there like a ghost.

got any photos of your bike and face?ha

saucy

keep your eyes on that

Now I'm feeling (pseudo)homesick.

Anyone ever made it up Scot st by the art school riding fixed?

HTFU ben

Good one. I would like to see that, or north Garner street in Partick. :)

Im in Glasgow too.

haha ive made it two thirds up scot by GSA, its torture.

lets get a GLASGOW "alleycats" sorted.....?

Sounds good. I'm from Glasgow. Living near Middlesbrough right now but I get up for most weekends. I'll be up permanently from mid August and I'll definitely be at Millportpoloco with my flat mate who also rides fixed that I'll drag along.

On a related note. I rode from Newlands, along kilmarnock road, fenwick road, ayr road and out to the Eaglesham moores and back down the A77 on saturday. Geared because those hills would kill you on fixed but I'd recommend it to anyone in Glasgow as a good training ride. Was 28 miles.

Oh, This might be the perfect oppertunity to launch a site that I've had sitting in the corner of the internet for a month. There's zero content on it so far but I thought it'd be a good thing for the Glasgow fixed gear scene.

Ta-Da!<