London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

did find myself riding deliberately slowly behind a rather comely young lass in sheer leggings this morning. nice stripey underpants she had on too. does that count as harrassment?

/her ass meant NOTHING to me!

Evident delight?

Hardly-I just looked at the blog after reading the thread and the first post is saying someone has nicked her bike (today).

So, wasn't laughing at her, rather that it is fucking ironic that once you start a popular blog about people being arseholes whilst you're cycling some cnut robs your bike, wouldn't you agree? I think you're being a bit sanctimonious...

Someone's stolen her bike! :[

+1

You need to ask Jaygee and Skully...

I've a couple of guesses... More reason she needs to get to drinks. :)
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its sad she had her bike nicked i was enjoying the blogg very funny but disappointing that there are such wankers out there!

That's horrible. Depressing stuff

^^Looked a bit boring to me. I find it hard to focus on picture-less content. What's it about? I'm sure some cleavage or thigh shots would help my attention span

don't start your first post about this with "HA!" and then try and back pedal.
and that's not ironic. is it. you're dressing up being snide.

"HollaBack LDN lets women Holla Back at street harassers! London is not a playground for pervy dudes "

Which London are you talking about?

oh no!

Oh fuck off and stop being so pedantic.

Pedants! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I can feel another Evening Standard story coming here...

Well done to the blogger, it's tone seems pretty spot on.

Do you know Dancing James?

Hello! Interesting reading, and thanks for your comments. I will come to drinks! Not this Tuesday, but maybe next Tuesday. I'm not a shit cyclist, and I tend to avoid confrontation. A lot of other women have emailed me with similar, more harrowing stories suggesting it is very widespread and there are a lot in the comments on this post: http://fforphilistine.wordpress.com/...kers/#comments Yes, my chain probably did need fixing: i can clean the chain and fix a puncture, but that's about the extent of my bicycle maintenance abilities. yes, there were 6 in 3 days initially, but there weren't any over the weekend, and I think it's mostly to do with the fact I cycle at least 30 miles a day, always on main roads. So it's actually a tiny percentage of people who are prats. And now some bratchild from beckton has nicked my damn bike just when I was enjoying this whole project.

Yes! Come to North drinks on a Tuesday. It is the best.

Sorry to hear about your bike. Always sucks. Great blog though.

^This

Welcome!

(but West drinks are best FWIW)

Was your bike like this one?



I can't see why they'd nicked it, unless it was locked with those tiny cable lock.

Good luck with your bike. Bummer.

In the words of Teenslain:

Shut up, Ed.

probably not the right time to says that!

This

Remember, you can get two for one on their delicous burgers, that should be tempting enough.

Identical! but a dark pink/purple colour. It's in the middle of an estate, so I reckon the kids just grab them for laughs. I was in the shop for 15 minutes! Grr.

Dawn, good on you for getting so much attention for your blog. I hope very much that you'll get your bike back or a new one soon, and obviously that your source of inspiration will run dry before long, ideally before you get anywhere near 101 (here's hoping, although of course not very hopefully).

I don't doubt your experiences for one moment--I've heard plenty of similar stories from women over the years. I think what people are thinking about when speculating (on the basis of no evidence) about your cycling are the questions that they have about anyone's cycling, male or female. You write in your article on why you started the blog:

Curiously enough, and I hasten to stress that I say this without actually having seen you ride, it is often precisely not 'taking up space on the road' that invites people to pass you closely or otherwise victimise you--it's often the (seemingly) timid cyclist who rides with an 'I'm not really here' body language and road positioning who looks the most like a potential victim to cowards who want to abuse someone to feel better about themselves.

Quite irrespective of any specific issues, it's always worth doing cycle training if you haven't already done so. It will be tailored to your abilities, which are assessed at the start of the training. Have a look--there's a whole sub-forum devoted to cycle training:

http://www.lfgss.com/forum49.html

Enjoy your riding in spite of the subjects of the blog!

It may have been kids, but curiously enough such bikes are also quite fashionable at the moment.

30 miles a day on a bike like that is quite something. Respec' and apologies for assuming you were shit.

15 miles each way, she's a perfect example of someone who can do that on a normal 3 speeds bicycle.

top work Dawn.

It'll all end in gears.

Don't derailleur thread with puns, Oliver!

Yeah, it's getting tyresome

or 10 there, 10 back and 10 random miles bating people and trying to get into fights to provide content for the blog ;)

Uh oh, let's not shifter thread onto a punning chain reaction.

well im just glad she SPOKE to us...

No need to shout, we're all very geared up to puns round here.

I really didn't mean to foster punning, honestly, although it is slowly dawning on me what I may have done.

Thanks! Used to cycle up a monstrous hill in Coventry on a single speed, so London's a piece of cake so far. Aside from the delights of New Cross of course. ;)

What you gonna do once you reach 102?

Good grief, Ollie... Let's build Dawn a new bike...

So the 'Ha!' is ironic. Right.

+1 to what Oliver said, apart from the bloody awful puns.

Rep forever if you do it, teenslain.

Nice blog.

As a female I haven't encountered anything like that, perhaps just a shake of the fist - but to be honest if I was to have such an encounter, I would probably smash their face in. :)

Where was that? I'm a former Coventry lad, flown as far as Leamington so still in the area.

OK, new project...

rep forever if you dont take it to BCC halfway through the installation of a 'part' ^

I wonder if billy piper will play you in the tv series dawn?

What's BCC, B?

:P

You kn ow I don't do headsets or bottom brackets, I'm too creative...

Ha! Is it possible she meant south easts? :)

nb, I think Citygent might have a spare step through, if the build her a bike idea is serious? There was definatly one being freecycled recently...