London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

try argos cycles. not a bike shop but as a frame builders i'd be suprised if they did have access to one.

Yeah Im just not used to paying for shit like that working in a bike shop myself!
headtube facing is around 20 quid am I right?

twenny quid? i hope not. thats a crap amount. its a fifteen minute job so tenner tops. ask the mechanic where you work how much it costs. or kick up a fuss and get them to order the cutter to do it and then do it at work and spread the word so everyone will come to you for 1inch headtube facing...

oh also i forgot... spotted yesterday, tuesday, going down park street about half 4 ish. a girl on a red fixed with green(?) deep v's or similar. i thought she was turning right cos of her road position and i went by her on the left (sorry sorry sorry, i though you were turning). she wasnt turning, just chilling far out so folks wouldnt overtake i think. sorry.

I saw her on Saturday, Hotwells Road. Also saw Hammertime last night ploughing down Glos Rd on his daily charge.

Mint green fixed outside Jesters the other night too, in fact too many to mention..

Is there any futher progress on a weekly meet up, was thursday decided upon? If so is there a rough time?

6.30pm-7pm by Cafe Gusto round the back of the Lloyds Amphitheatre.

spotted on a bianchi pista in chrome with keirin stlye grips and track bars bottom of park steer near 5050, then saw the same bike locked outside 5050.
locked next to it was a conversion with a maroon frame silver deep vs and risers. brakeless too.
Oh yeah and what are 5050 doing selling charge bikes? I bet they know shit all about bikes.

*mechanics wise

Thanks Ward-a-Mercy will try and make it down to say hello.

Spotted twice today in Stokes croft 3ish and 6ish- brown bike, risers, bright red bag! Rider wearing a blue hat.

I believe the owner/staff are pretty into the whole fixed thing. Their interest may be genuine, not just a cash-in.

Anyway if Evans Cycles, Leisure Lakes etc and other shit bike shops sell Charge™... Then you clearly don't need to know shit.

Very true, I just thought it was pretty funny when I saw it.

Yeah, those guys ride.


Did y'all have fun tonight, I showed up kind of late with a little help from work and walking out of the shop to a flat front end.
I'm a little confused as to who came out tonight from this forum?
Next week? Well, we'll be there every week, weather permitted, if you guys feel like coming out.

Actually after calling Leisure Lakes a shitty shop...

a friend bought a bike in the Cheltenham branch today, I was supposed to go with her so she wouldn't get sold overbuilt/overpriced junk, but i got caught-up and couldn't go along.

I saw the bike and lock she got this evening and it's perfect. I think she got really sound advice about what she did and didn't need. Clearly not everyone in Leisure lakes is a 16 year old only interested in wanking over an Orange full-sus bike.

Fair enough, who went to the meetup thing?

PS - some times see this guy on my road (kingsdown parade) and also going down horfield road into st michaels hill on a modern looking fixed gear with a pace (or similar) mtb style fork and a front disc brake.
wearing a helmet (red possibly)

didn't make it tonight, but will try to get along next week. what did you guys get up to?

saw someone tonight on a nice looking frame, it was white with a different colour fade on each end, and he had a nice bag too. by the suspension bridge at about 9.15

I was there. Nice to put some names to faces!

I met DJC, whatfriends and Bond off here that I know of - may have been some others. Were quite a few people out, maybe 10+?

I left about 8ish and fancied a quick burn around so I followed Bond up Jacob Wells Road and through Clifton. I thought I was cool with hills from riding up the Wells Road every night, but I had to push hard to not get left behind!

Magnus - that would be Bond. He was off to t'other side of the bridge to play football when I left him.

I thought my ears were burning!
Nice to meet some heads from here at last - Whatfriends and Ward-a-mercy great to meet you, good to put some faces and bikes to names. Didn't catch the names of others i'm afraid - it was a bit like the first day at school... Some impressive tricks!!

Magnus I was wondering when I might pass you, it's funny how a fixed riding style just stands out, not a sight I'm normally greeted by over that way, were you heading over the bridge for a burn? it was a fine evening for a ride..

just riding round catching up with lots of different people, stayed mainly round clifton but have some friends who live in leigh woods so was jsut popping over to see them.

what are you riding? it looked nice

Spotted....

?? last night by the fountains about 6.15pm

?? this morning cycling through Arnos Vale towards the city centre

Some guy on a fg/ss on the A420 out the back of Bath

7.35am Bianchi Pista going over the bridge heading towards Queen Square.

*raises arm*

Metallic blue bike with see-through grips locked up by cabot circus this morning! Do you work around there? Glad they have finally sorted out bike racks!

Spotted on gloucester road turning up into zetland road at about 4 or 5pm today
wierd looking bike with pink stuff around the front hub, messenger bag and some form of knitted sheepskin wolly jumper. drop bars without grip on the drop, maybe grip on the top.

Having looked at the "post your bikes" thread, I think I can state with some authority that I spotted Steamroller last Thursday on the platform of Bath station.

I was stood behind you with my roadbike (black w/ red rims). I thought you might have been off here, but I didn't want to butt in to your conversation with your mate with the old "Are you that bloke off the forum?" chat!

Next time I see you I'll say "hi"!

saw a gorgeous bike outside clifton down about 8:15am on Friday... black frame with chrome rear triangle, black rear wheel, white deep v front with white tyre and white grips on risers. looked lovely.

This belongs to a good friend of mine called Steven, and it is a beautiful bike. It has a good home and a loving owner.

is it a lugged steel conversion? Recently run with a white velocity on the back?

are there any bristol rides or meetups planned?
would be cool to do something

Hello!

Strangely the same thought went through my mind when I saw you stood there... then I saw the gears and thought better of it!

Did you get on the next train? Gets a bit mental at 6pm on the platform.

Yeah - I wasn't in a hurry and I didn't fancy the bunfight!

See you around, dude.

How, neighbours. I've been lurking around this site for a while now, like a bit of a rapey sweat merchant, but now I will reveal myself to you, you lucky, lucky people you. Sorry for hijacking the thread, but cos I'm new to the site, it won't let me start my own one.
I live in Yogurtsville, Montpelier. I ride an old blue converted Dawes with some uber-metrosexual pink grips yancopad. Are there any rides planned soon? And where's the loo around here?
Cheersy bye,
Cooper

if you book them, they will come... maybe. bristol folk are notoriously hard to motivate it seems.

Are any of you coming down to Mud Dock tomorrow night?

See this thread:- http://www.londonfgss.com/thread10516.html#post296215

im in there like swim wear.

that's disgusting. i just threw up a little bit.

where all these hipsters? i never see them. they don't stray outside the clifton triangle. unless going to gloucester road for the weekly hipster boho jaunt.

I might do although judging on how I feel today i doubt id be up to any form of excersise

i'm coming casp, as is:

aidy, pete, most of the cheesy riders (bristol MTB posse), and several others. so i'd say there will be at least 11 people there.

oh pj just did a funny...


and the hipsters,they are everywhere. perhaps you eyes are more tuned to the country lane muck of your your commute than the yoots on bikes out there. by the way, my internet is back. whoop.

yeah whatever.

david cripps is coming too. i think he said he was going to 'race'. i'm not sure. should be around by 6.30ish. i'll be on the raleigh, if it isn't raining. with my new wheels, if they arrive. if not, back on the bob. see pics in bob jackson thread. winter bikes all the way.

winter bikes are go for sure. except i left mine in london... i love the 81" gear, i was suprised how quickly it became normal.. sprinting up stamford hill was lush.

81" is ok for london. it's not normal.

i went to the velodrome yesterday. so much fun.

spotted some dude ive seen at hardcore gigs at the croft going up and down stokes croft yesterday evening, he then turned off into picton street/st pauls.
couldnt really get a look at the bike but the guy looked pretty scene, had some wierd blong straightened hair
sorry if ive insulted anyone

I had about 81" on mine for a couple of years. I only ever rode between Whitechapel and Clerkenwell though, flat as a pancake.

81" in Bristol will kill both knees in under a year I reckon. What about 51"?

nah, i rode 81 for over a year in bristol. you get used to it, you either blast hills or mosey up real slow watching the world go by.

I rode up park street once about 7 years ago on 81" fixed it wasn't very nice.

There was nobody to spot me back then.

what is blong hair?

back then all this was fields.

It wasn't so steep back then