You are reading a single comment by @h2o and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@h2o
the stalls which have licences are reasonably legit. brick lane bikes started off as a market stall, after all.
there are lots of randoms selling bits from blankets rolled out on the side of the road, and they aren't.
ditto full bikes - places which have permanent premises tend to be more legit (though far from guaranteed) than random blokes wandering around trying to offload single bikes (of which there are several, none legit).
if you want to buy random cheap/old/scuffed to fcuk second hand parts it's okay. but anything that looks too much of a bargain is probably stolen.