Recreational cycling

Pea coats are wool, double breasted, quite short, as worn by fifties amarican sailors (ask Wiganwill about sailors), usually navy blue. They usually have these rather naff blue buttons with anchors on.

Or find a pic of pajamas he's always rockin one.

Crispin Glover:

I can dig that, bra'

Paddington rulez dude.

But....if you turn up to SouthEasties with the wrong shoes, I will spit on your feet you heathen.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/10/02/111-pea-coats/

"Another common characteristic of the coat is that white people will write their names on the label inside the coat. This is not done for fear of theft, but rather as a necessary precaution against party mixups".

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/10/61-bicycles/

Fixed gear bicycles meet a lot of requirements for white person acceptance. They can be made from older (i.e. vintage) bicycles, thus allowing the rider to have a unique bike that is unlikely to be ridden by anyone else in town. They are also easily customizable with expensive things Aerospoke rims, Phil Wood Hubs, and Nitto Parts.

Pea coat used to be called a reefer jacket. Same nautical origin.

By the way, no-one cycles in London. The dust flap of a 1970 book on the history of cycling I am reading says, "...very few ride bicycles about London, though both the author and the chairman of Routledge are among those few."

Now you know!

Only wear gear that's been tried and tested by generations of savvy dudes, and it dun't get mo' savvy than a sailor, y'dig?

WVM- you could take the bike in the back of the van, park up around the corner and then jump on the bike, hammer along Tooley street, stopping with a 20 foot skid outside the pub?

Lots of those Paddington bear dolls were made by Jeremy Clarkson and his family. We should find another style icon!

feel sorry for the considerable number of couriers who seem to have lost the enjoyment factor through having to ride for a crust.

How much enjoyment you can get out of riding when your position is so bad and your stem too low I can't imagine.
Anyway maybe now I will rediscover the pleasure of riding in London. laughs bitterly

Paddington Bear for Prime Minister!1!!

joins group

I really don't have a choice in driving or not. My work usually involves working on different sites every day hauling around tools, materials plus one or two lads too. Today I was in Park Lane, tomorrow I'm in Brighton, next week in Streatham for a couple of days and then back in Park Lane.
On the odd occassion I do work in one place for a few days and where there is no free / cheap parking nearby I do drop people off and then park the van somewhere reasonably priced and cycle back but those opportunities are rare.
On the plus side of things riding for pleasure is great. Just got back from a very pleasant ride to Greenwich Park. No rushing and taking the shortest route, just blasting down some favourite streets enjoying the sun and having a ball.
Oh, and I love the way threads drift - Pea Coats - brilliant!

Keep an eye out for me if you're round Streatham I'll be doing my cycle to school and back. Yellow frame, blue tires. I'll do my best back brake skid.. damn freewheel.

I cycle out of necessity and want. Don't drive so cycling is the best way for me to get around town, and when the sun is shining it's nice to hop on the bike and go explore some new roads/areas!

Also, if I were to turn up to, say, SE drinks, should I change into cycling shoes and liberaly spray my forehead with water from a plant mister before going in?

If you can talk about anything other than bikes you'd be most welcome :)

I shall write 'do a skid' in the dirt on the back doors. That'll make a nice change from 'wish my wife was this dirty' and 'she is in bed with me'.

Could also slap a WAC sticker on for the non believers ;)

this made me laugh, from the stuff white people like comments:"fuckin fixie pricks, i ride a 1958 bianchi superleggra, and some hipster scum came up to me and asked me if i was going to convert, CONVERT? Fuck that, never in my life will i ever take off a cambio corsa and slap on a phil wood product. ill shove that pink aerospoke up your ass"

from somebody called ross, so not RPM?

I cycle everywhere, my car gets occasional use for work purposes and to travel long distances, probably no more than £15 a month maximum in petrol goes through it though.

Why do you put money in your petrol at all?

I really miss cycling around london, the distances in oxford, as I've mentioned countless times before, are nothing, which means you have to cycle for fitness, and there aren't too many people who want to just head off into the lovely countryside around here with a picnic and just relax.
stupid exams.

That's a shame - there are some fantastic rides out of town. I used to do one that took me out beyond Cowley into the Vale of White Horse, out to Watlington and beyond. I couldn't show it to you on a map, but I could ride it again now as if I'd ridden it yesterday, not fifteen years ago.

Crispin Glover:

OMG crispin is a cute little bear !! awwww

Pea coats are wool, double breasted, quite short, as worn by fifties amarican sailors (ask Wiganwill about sailors), usually navy blue. They usually have these rather naff blue buttons with anchors on.

Or find a pic of pajamas he's always rockin one.

ha! very much last year's look for the pajamas collection..

FFS people, that^^^ what Paddington Bear wears is a duffel coat. Heathens.

This is a pea coat.

wvm thanks for clarifying, its fairly obvious to some of us that motor vehicles are necessary for some people some of the time.

I think writing 'do a skid' in the dirt on your van would be excellent.

This is a duffel Jacket, not a pea coat.

Get your teddy bear fashion right.

too late morgybaby!