London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

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i never thought i'd see the day when i could say that ^^^...but...

up by the mall at cribbs causeway, there is a road called catbrain hill. i remember when that really was a hill, a short one with homes onit and a field at the bottom where they used to do pick your own xmas trees. used to go there every year with my mum and a couple of spades and dig one up.. i think that means i am beginning to realise that i am getting old.

We will be bringing Lebowski, RPM, a DJ, Winston & me. That makes 16 people that's enough people for a race!

I think it is going to be packed. Mud Dock have been inundated with enquiries, we've had to deal with quite a few too.

i called muddock on friday to put my name down. they said they had about 50 already and the limit was 200.. bloody hell, ive got to get up at 6 and drive 10 people to west wales the next morning...

you fucking racist.

Hahahahaha

Spotted Ward-a-Mercy @ temple meads, good to chat and ride mate!

think i spotted you guys on my way out of the station. didn't say hi as i was hungry for tea and i'm also a cunt.

i'm sure there'll be chance for intros tomorrow at spin class.

think i spotted steamroller as well, leaving temple meads at around 5.30-6. orange backpack?

Yeah... that was me.

Moksha, what do you ride? Get a photo up!

Yeah - good to meet you Steamroller!

I'm sure our paths are gonna cross a bit more if I keep working in Bath.

Good to meet you last night Whatfriends. My voice is a little horse this morning, I thoroughly enjoyed the racing last night.

Good too see a 4x racer and not a roadie or trackie dominating the racing!

Was behind a guy from fountains up to stokescroft.
s/s or fixed (chain was pretty slack, guessed s/s) specialized bike with both brakes.

never seen anyone start off at lights so fast!

mad respect if it's anyone on here

was it a green one? could be mattster

Gutted, my first Obligatory Slack Chain comment, am about to sort it now, my rattling trackstand will be sorted. I am fixed but also like brakes, hence the front and rear V's. Moksha, Orange bike with drops and no tape right? Should have said hello but I get caught up with racing the cars. Will do next time.

Bianchi coming out of the American Apparel store as I was going in at lunch today... Davidjohnclapp? Managed an "Alright mate..." but my brain was fried after a busy morning at work!

..oh, yeah, that would have been me. I work there. Ahha, I'm sorry buddy, I wasn't paying enough attention. Lunch time is like that. I've got food on my mind.

Food is great.

Im drunk.
I saw possibly danny wainwright and someone else at the top of horfield road, by the chip shop going down into kingsdown parade at about 10 oclock.
Possibly one on a baby blue bike.
one had white deep rims.
(i think)

Spotted two bikes locked together with a chain outside cabot circus.
Baby blue track frame no decals with white front black and rear white deep v. sungino messenger chainring, thompson seatpost/stem, profile design pursuit bars oh and charge spoon saddle in black
Maroon conversion with silver deep vs, risers and black grips, white turbo saddle, both bikes were brakeless.

^the slave trade alive and well again in Bristol^

:D

ha ha. HHSB. havent heard that in a while.

hah, yeah I normally see quite a few hipsters riding down gloucester road in the early hours of the morning these days

That would probably be me...

spotted about 10.30 near exit of Broadmeads car park what looked like brown or orange fixed (or ss) with bloke on (sorry this is bit shite description i was not paying much attention)

i saw someone once, might have been yesterday. or the day before. they might have been on a bike but i cant be sure. or it could have been on a bus...

that could have been me, possibly

yesterday, at the lights under the arches, me heading town ways, someone heading out of town ways. we both trackstood till the green light, then nodded as we rolled away. it was funny. i was off to the climbing centre trying to beat the rush (i failed) so didnt stop to chat. also two bikes at the centre, pretty colours, one ss the other fixed. one with the shittest cable lock and hardware store padlock. just begging to be stolen... sheesh, some people will only learn when their shit gets taken.

spotted, pj on multiple forums trying to buy a track frame. someone sort him out will you...

Queen Square this morning 7.50am, green single speed/fixed.

you mean offer him a track frame or give him a duffing? either way, who's paying?

This morning at about 8.30am coming down Wells Rd then past Temple Meads. Someone on a black Jamis with risers and no brakes.

Who dat? B¬]

Locked up outside the nova scotia pub this evening.
orange track frame, orange deep section rims and orange wrapped bullhorns - tasty.

Fixed Blue Pompino rider with chromed guards who led me on the craziest chase from the fountains up to Stokes Croft, dodging buses with some savage shoulder drops to get through the gaps, good skills, hope you are up for the Alley Cat.

Spotted a pista with an extra passenger going up Cheltenham rd opposite the Pipe in the bollock freezingly chilly early evening on Saturday, about 6/half 6ish. Looked like fun. I was stuck inside a super shit Citroen Berlingo van covered in Vitamin Water logos.

Spotted two "riders" with death wishes yesterday:

Death wish #1:

One guy on a Bianchi Pista up Gloucester Road near the arches, brakeless, no toe straps, no clips. What the hell that guy is going to do when a foot slips going down Whiteladies Road or Park Street is beyond me

Death wish #2:

Kid delivering newspapers on a single speed, brakeless, not fixed. This one really baffles me. He has no way of stopping his bike at all, even for traffic lights. How does he stop? Does he jump off the bike all the time?

brakeless BMX? Maybe he has the skills.

nope, it was a full-sized bike like you and I ride... was tempted to go up and ask him whether he had a death wish, but then I thought that society would benefit if I didn't...

survival of the fittest. nuff said.

by this you refer to the skill of jamming your foot between the frame and the back wheel?

pretty skillfull..

Spotted... near Broad Quay 7.45am

Green fixed gear bike, rider carrying tyre over sholder

yeah i saw that guy outside temple meads.

sorry didn't stop to see if you needed help fella, had a train to catch. y'know, busy busy...

er... no.

ok.

A whitedread with a pretty messy looking fixed bike walked past me and said "yay fixies"
Think his bike was black but not sure.. would have chatted but I was deep in conversation with a man on a brompton about Reynolds 531 Tubing.
Saw also two singlespeeds parked next to eachother outside cabot circus...
they both had only a front brake... WHY DO PEOPLE DO IT

i think i know those two singlespeeds.
psuedo-fix?

theres a blue claud butler with very narrow bars always locked up at my uwe campus (bower ashton) and a couple other singlespeed bikes, but im pretty sure that the claud butler is singlespeed and is just running a front break with a goldfinger lever.

and also saw a trendy looking chap heading towards cabbot circus (don't know what the road is called) on what could have been a black bike but i wasn't paying much attention as i was late for work on foot!

..it was possibly a dark green frame\fork and he was possibly unlucky enough to be travelling to work to work all day with me. He was late for work as well this morning. I left early, actually. A bad case of 'the Saturdays' all round.

ah i know what you mean, i didn't even make it in today im afraid to say i did pop into american apparel though which one are you dave (not being rude)

..basically, I work out in back-stock, so...I'm not usually hanging around on shop floor but if you see a guy walking around with a clipboard and a radio, chances are that it's me. I should be wearing glasses, although I did a good job of loosing them the other day, so...at the moment I'm doing my best to function without them.
A couple of the guys that work there ride fixed and the rest ride single speed, actually. Ahha.