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Seb - just go for it. I hadn't ridden a bike for years and went straight to fixed a few months ago. I had a couple of brief moments when I forgot to keep pedaling but I started out riding it around quiet roads where I live to get used to it before taking it out into darkest south east London. It was fine mate, you'll be good, just keep your wits about you. And welcome to the forum.

Nice one. Good luck with it Matt!

I heard that 531 was made from 531 but it sounded hollow.

^ Thanks gents (and I use the term 'gents' loosely ;)

Linkly:

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@Platini - +1 - who on earth would want to do that!?

What do you prefer in terms of frame style - as in traditional ladies' sloping top-tube or traditional gents' horizontal top-tube - and why? Just curious really as obviously (at least to my knowledge) the sloping top tube was developed 'way back when' to maintain a ladies' modesty when getting on or off her bicycle while wearing a skirt.

A chrome Plug, a red Willier, silver Langster and a brownish Pinnacle.
The Plug was disappointing, the Willier was good, looked lovely and the Miche parts were probably the best. The other two were ok, not much to choose. The Flyer was a surprise though, very enjoyable, responsive, felt lighter than it is.

I see why the Flyer won now, because the Fuji Track wasn't being tested.

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56cm for 5'7"!? She's a very leggy laydee? What I mean is that seems large frame for 5'7"....

A 54 would probably also be good but she is long legged. I always think slightly too big is better than slightly too small, although of course just about right is best :)

i have a vintage 2007 fuji track, which is an extremely rare example of the "mildly customised OTP" movement, which drew influences from the New York, Taiwan and Norf London schools of bicycle expressionism and the OTP movement more broadly.

PM me for details and price negotiations.

Shit! No way! I have the exact same model but drawing from the Sarf London and Edwardian gentleman schools of fixie abstraction.

I'm 'thinking' about getting a fixed wheel conversion for a friend and wondered if any of you might have one you wanted to sell or know someone who does. She's 5ft 7in so I'm thinking a 56cm frame would probably be about right. Nothing too pricey, maybe around the 200 squid mark, so basic but sound. Steel preferably. Just something decent but not too flash. Please reply here or PM me with info. Cheers y'all.

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I once tossed a punnet of cockles into a cabriolet Beetle with its roof down.

I'm not a complete knob... ;D

Joe, that really is a matter of opinion.

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Sorry, but this is utter nonsense. Completely white bikes are not the sole property of the Ghost Bikes movement. Ghost Bikes as a phenomenon are not nearly widely known enough by the general public (or even a good deal of cyclists for that matter) for the majority of people to get confused in the first place. This smacks of good intentions and a great idea (Ghost Bikes) turned 'worthy' and 'holier than thou'. And if and when people do generally speaking know what a Ghost Bike is it should be fairly obvious to them that the white bike stuck up outside a thrift shop is simply a white bike...

To start trying to claim this sort of thing as intellectual property for a movement that started with a piece of street art is overly sensitive in the extreme. What if Charge produce an all white bike? White seat/stem/rims/hubs/frame/forks/etc. Would that also be out of order and in some way disrespectful but only when these bikes were chained up? Where do you draw the line? What you're suggesting here is some form of censorship...

I'll certainly keep an eye out in SE15, where/how was it left?

Hard lines.

mine is yellow

Been watching a lot of porn recently and eating cheesy quavers?

Speak up!

True Love Waits my friend... it waits

Ahmen

Indeed. It waits for freshly laundered vag.

Congrats by the way, Nahvikconcum person.

Hard to say.

Best not fudge it then.

Quite a few people's bowls release when they first see them, it's a flight or fight response.

Is it true that Object actually touched cloth on receiving his set?

The picture of them made me moist. I fear the real thing.

May I be the first?

^rasist!

I gave a pretty reasonable and rational argument for a horizontal bar set up and accepted that there are exceptions

That'll teach me to skim-read posts at work! I 'thought' you were suggesting that there was only one position for drop-bars and that was with the drops at horizontal, when obviously it's not that black and white. Knickers now untwisted.

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FFS I'm happy to disagree with someone who's talking from experience, but I'm sitting here arguing with someone who has no idea, and is just regurgitating other people's arguments!

It may have escaped your attention but up to this point I was having a bubble. For a serious reply please read the following:

In my experience, and although I've never ridden on the track (something I'm looking forward to as I get fitter after a long layoff from cycling), I've ridden many different bicycles for all sorts of reasons off and on since I was about 10 I guess, so over the past 29 years - it's what is comfortable that really counts. And that often comes down to the individual. I do ride on the drops but infrequently and find the position my bars are in perfectly comfy, thanks awfully.

It's also interesting to note that from the pictures that were posted up, very well known professional cyclists, both track and road, seem to have their bars in a more upright position. Perhaps this is because they understand and appreciate that it's what suits them best that really matters. Or, perhaps in their professional careers they just haven't had the great benefit of your obviously superior experience. If only they had positioned their bars the way 'fred' on the interweb said they have to to be right. Who knows, by now some of them might have won Olympic gold or something...

? and I don't?

I rode my first track event in 1986...

Meh! RPM rode his first track event in 1886. You lose.