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Graeme Obree. Invented his own training regime, a cornflakes-based dietary regime, and invented a new bike. The Obree bike is true engineering genius, and designs out many of the short-comings of a conventional two-triangles frame. It's a shame that the only thing anyone remembers about it is that he used a washing machine baring.

I also hate that 'an hotel' thing... Can the sub-editor unigear posse please illuminate me? According to the London Times style sheet, o' course...

I'm not sure there is a single correct answer, grammar evolves, so you can probably find professors etc. who'll argue both ways. I approach it from a practical point of view; adding the "n" to make "an" should make the sentence easier to say (e.g. "it's an honour") if adding the "n" makes the sentence catch in your mouth (e.g. "an hotel") then its not serving its function and can be abandoned.

I'll tell you what gets on my tits; Latin and Greek pluralisations. This is a forum, and if we had more than one of them we would some forums, not fora.

Is oral sex vegan?

yes.

I'd say there is a 97% chance it will be called off.

oh bugger.

I read an interview with Federico Bahamontes a couple of years ago where he complained that index gearing made climbing too easy. His argument was that friction shifters didn't allow you to drop a cog when someone attached; you had to respond in the gear you were in, as if you were dicking about with the levers you'd get dropped.

I'm only vegetarian so I can be smug during food scares.

It ain't good:
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/dayforecast.asp?zipcode=london&day=4

Hello to all, by the way. This is my first post, but I've been lurking on here for a while, picking up info before buying my first fixie a few weeks ago (a Giant Bowery coz it fitted my 6'7" lankyness better than anything else I tried). This is a great site, and cheers for all the help you unknowingly gave me!

I did my track induction at HH last Saturday morning and met a few of you guys who were there doing the same. I was planning on joining you on Sunday, but it's not looking good eh?

GiraffeBoy! Good forum name, it suits you. I was just behind on the first few induction laps, and heard that nice pedal strike you had on the banking.

It was s'posed to be p-ing down last Saturday, and then it didn't so may be we'll get lucky again. Still a few days to go, keep your fingers crossed.

School journey to the Wye Valley in 1980. We rocked some wicked Simon;

I'm sure that's all very reassuring for the occupants.... Not so much for a cyclist being hit by one.

NCAP standards cover injury to people outside vehicles as well as inside - which is why you can't get old school bullbars anymore.

G-wizz vehicles are built to no standards whatsoever. Would they hurt you more in a crash? no one knows

I'm no defender of 4x4s. Driving pretty-ed up farm vehicles around city centres doesn't make any sense. I'm just saying that driving something that has been constructed to exploit loopholes and avoid safety regs doesn't make a whole bunch of sense either.

@Jay1 - hope your OK and not hurting too bad.

Should have said that in the first post. sorry.

Yeah, right. So stupid, not like these guys eh?

A cherokee is built to some kind of safety standard, and is crash tested. A g-wizz ain't.

At least the g-wizzers are looking out for the environment if not cyclists.

I think most of them are looking out for their expenditure on the congestion charge. A g-wizz burns a load of fossil fuels, it just doesn't do it under the bonnet.

perhaps he's been trying for 20 years, and only just suceeded. It would fit with someone stupid enough to buy a g-wiz.

Why hasn't anyone attempted a "longer bikes" joke yet? This thread is 14 posts long, surely we should have had one by now. I know its not funny, but that's not the point. This is the internet FFS.

yeah, good fun on the track today, really looking forward to next week now.

+1

The stupid smiles plastered on our faces after the intro session said it all. Even on a cack bike with touring tyres it was brilliant.

North circular = no fun at all. South Circular is OK for getting places....like Herne Hill!

Buying bikes new for kids is an expensive business, as they out grow them pretty quick, and cheap ones really are crap. If you thought Halfords adult bikes were bad, their kids bikes are downright dangerous. The upside is, that because they get outgrown quick, there are loads of second hand bargains.

I bought a Trek mountain lion for my daughter from Apex cycles in Clapham High St. It's got a proper Shimano deraileur and Tektro brakes (kids bike brakes are usually unbranded shite). Save for a few scratches it was good as new. I paid 75 quid for it, and will probably sell on for not much less when the time comes.

I was stabbed by my bike, it chased me up a tree then stabbed me, it was naked and I was scared.

Doesn't really count as an accident. Sounds quite deliberate to me.

Mind you, if you wrapped my "post" in luminescent material and then posted pictures of me on the internet, I'd chase you up a tree naked. probably.

1 Chris Crash
2 Skullhead
3.Splatbucket
4.aido done!
5.Cornelius Blackfoot (if I haven't done the induction in the weeks previously)
6.flickwg, but i doubt i'll get my arse to hern hill that early in the morning

1. Object, provided I look at my diary and don't suffer froma an attack of apathy.
   
2. lappiesza (whatever happens)
   
3. runtime
   
4. mikec
   
5. Aroogah
   
6. joe lounge
   
7. Sol[/FONT][/COLOR]
   
8. Robofoxx
   
9. 50/14
   
10. JOL (Is this the 24th or the 17th?)
    
11. Pilky (if it is this saturday, and i can find my way there :P)
    
12. Willski (its gonna be one busy induction!)
    

What did you find nasty about it? Where we were you riding? When I started riding fixed, I went up to Tooting common and spent a few hours just riding around to get used to it. This gave the opportunity to learn how to pull away, stop etc. without having to worry about traffic. I probably covered 100 miles in the week that followed, by which time I was totally converted (fixated?). It was still a few months before I got rid of the back brake.

Ah-ha! I think I've seen you on this, or at least someone on a blue trek folder that's been fixed up. On Kennington Road, must have been at least a year ago.

I've got a brand new combine harvester.

This place is a bit special, in every way.

...special needs, special school, special brew...

Did He-Man save the universe (of which he is master of) in the UK as well?

Indeed he did; and he taught us that good-guys are good-looking and bad-guys are uuuuugly.

Based on the LFGSS drinks that I've been to, there are some bad mofos riding fixed.

@ willski - have you done your track induction yet? Had mine today using one of their hire bikes - an official Southwark Council Harry O complete with orange saddle (tasty). The hire bikes are okay but it just feels weird riding something other then your own bike.

Next time I'm down there I plan on using my bike- change the bullhorns to drops, ditch the brake and flip the wheel to a 48x15 gearing.

Think if you change the gearing at home and HTFU you could be knackered before you get there- showing up 15min early would surely give ya enough time to change the cog and remove the brake?

Thanks Crank. I'm planning on doing the induction next Saturday - I think I might try one of the hire bikes and see how I get on. I'm a lazy fucker, and I don't know if I can be bothered to mod my bike before, and I certainly won't want to after.