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It's better to have it tight. If it's loose you're in risk of throwing the chain due to the lack of a derailleur, which is an inconvenience on a singlespeed and a potentially lethal problem on a fixie.

I've had a hospitalization crash from riding a fixie (like an idiot) without a helmet. I wore it for the first few times i rode round london but then you start forgetting and before you know it its under your bed. And nothing ever comes out from under your bed.

watch it buddha that could get you arrested!

sick bags, bag lady, shit bag, fakenger.
anything but menstrual cycles
it would put me off buying one (i am considering it)

I dont know many 14 year old boys with a beard smeear...

I think its just my natural air of patheticness :) And the fact that i was very damp and cold at the time (well the second time anyway)

Damn slow loading times, and double-damn photoben.

oxfam

Cool, I have all this to come fairly soon. rubs hands

. I have decided to browse/view only - my toys may be out of the pram but the pram has its white aerospokes on.

any pics?

Shit... didnt realise mudguards were that expensive. Maybe i'll just go for the coke bottle method instead.

I wish my parents pushed me around in a pram with aerospokes when i was a nipper

Hey kam if you have negative clearance with 650c, then aren't you going to have some SERIOUS negative clearance with 700c? Forgive me if I have misread what you said...

Or, ride with me, and you will be automatically forgiven for anything.

aidan [quote]asm Something a bit odd happened in brick lane this Wednesday after (my rather pathetic attempt at) polo. Was sitting in the bar right at the top of brick lane (on the right hand side) with my bike chained to 2 lamp posts in my line of site. This old guy came up to it, started checking it out, then lifted it up (at this point i bolted to the door clenching my fists). By the time I was right next to him he was making some suspicious arm gestures (golf swing?) to what appeared to be a window on the top floor of a building across bethnal green road, to the left of the street that the polo court is on. I dropped my bag on the floor and curtly told him to piss off, got a good look at his face in the process. While i was unlocking my bike I noticed half a magnet on the top tube. Cycled home feeling pretty angry.

I can only assume that

  a) this guy (wearing a check blue shirt, blue jeans, heavy (fat) build, greying/thinning/shortish mousy brown hair, bright blue eyes (and with a squint)) had marked my bike with the magnet for someone else to come along and steal it(I had 2 locks on it, mini kryptonite and an abus cable lock);

and b) The people who would come along with bolt cutters etc were in the building across the street.

Either that or he was just a crazy guy, but I somehow don't think so.

I think/hope that this of some use to everyone here. I am considering parking my bike within easy reach and in clear view somewhere else in brick lane and seeing if I catch the same guy at it again! (Although that's sort of playing with fire i guess.)

that makes me want to punch someone!![/quote]

I nominate turd furgeson

I have a distant cousin called John (ny?) Baggs.....true and possibly irrelevant.

Stompy you don't look happy to be alive in that photo... :)

I consider myself spectacularly lucky in dodging 2 £30 fines in the past week! One for riding on the pavement to get round a bus, the other for jumping a red light on theobald's road. The first guy was obviously quite new, and I managed to talk him down (he just pretended to see a "crime" in the distance and walked off purposefully). The second one was a police car, got the siren & flashing lights and everything (quite cool). Guy marches out all angry threatening to arrest me if I lie about my name (?!). I just say sorry, hand him some ID, then talk to him about riding fixed. He and his pals drive off all smiles & waving!

I think i must look incredibly pathetic or something, and people just feel bad about fining me!

G(ay) A(nd) P(roud)???

i got some giant branded* clip ons from my LBS were only bout £25 and seem as good as the sks ones

*mudgaurds made for giant bicycles not a massive set of mudgaurds decorated with intricate motifs made by a hot piece of wire.

so has ' . ' thrown his toys out the pram and deleted his account? it's all your fault hippy, you should be ashamed of yourself.

it will be heavy.
Man....

http://www.londonhippyfgss.com

ace!

Jermyn Street is to shirts as Saville Row is to suits.....many fine emporiums all in a row.....also a bloody good cheese shop too, and the back entrance of Fortnum and Masons for afternoon tea....

Pronounced like "German" but with "i" replacing the "a".

Check out Swaine, Adeney and Brigg on St James Street near the end of Jermyn Street if you want a top class umbrella or shooting stick.....oh and Lobb shoes is on St James street too....

I thought so i have an identical pair....never leave without a veggie hotdog.