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SimonC I remember when couriers rode mountain bikes because they were cool.

'strue. When I was student in the mid-80's you used to see the messengers going to sign on at the Elephant & Castle dole office. In those days it was all Italian racing bikes and Look tops.

..thats a good point, does anyone remember Age of Chance? The original fakengers shurely?

I'm an IT manager in a bank.

Yup. I'm a cnut.

BringMeMyFix Maggie Thatcher - Body Snatcher :S

I thought it was Maggie Thatcher - Milk Snatcher

Met Noggin in Clapham High Street last night. We had a chat about how hippy can't possibly have a girlfriend, job or social life, given that he spends every waking hour posting on here. It made up for getting absolutely pi$$ed on and getting caught in traffic on Battersea rise.

What? you mean you bunch of namby-pamby fakengers don't ride pedal-less?

I ride wheel-less - running along dragging the frame and fork between my legs. It's the purest form of cycling - fewer moving parts, less servicing, and the zen-like beauty of the metal scraping the tarmac.

winston tighten nuts...

hee, hee...

Ratboy how do you work out the number of skid patches as im planning to have a 54 19 or 20?

If you express the ratio of teeth on your chainring and cog as a fraction and then cancel down, then the numerator gives you the number of skid patches, as this is the number of positions the back wheel can be in while you've got the pedals locked. For example;

16/48 = 1/3 so there is one patch
17/48 doesn't cancel down so there are 17

19/54 doesn't cancel down so there are 19
20/54 = 10/27 which gives you 10

clefty am I in that Tooting twosome?

The Tooting Twosome are Mr Smith and RPM. If they invite you to form a Tooting Threesome, DECLINE!

Endura. Here they are for 17.59

And if your shoes get wet, stuff screwed up balls of newspaper in them as soon as you get home. Leave 'em for a few hours and the paper draws all the water out of the shoe.

hippy I like coffee too..

...yeah, Australian coffee.

(It's like Irish coffee with lager instead of whiskey)

This is a Pearson Touche

Nothing wrong with it at all. It's just the mystery taunts me when I have a hangover.

And here's the problem. No sooner do we start an SW thread, than a load of SE-ers flock in and start organising a pi$$ up.

I only ever see the mystery Touche rider when I am walking to the station. The fact that I am walking to the station means that I am hungover, having left my bike in the shed at work and gone to the pub the night before. He Touches past me and his Touche says "I'm fixing-it all the way to work now, and you've got to stand on a train with a headache surrounded by ugly people"

I used to work with a guy called Mike Hitchen (say it out loud)

Oh, and my mate Nick Moore, who works in a bank (you do the jokes)

Ratboy Hi to all you bike lovers, i live in south west london and see very few other ss/fixed riders just wondering iftheres any out there

There's plenty on here; Mr Smith & RPM in Tooting, Fatbloke & Fatboyralph are rotundly residing in Wimbledon Park, I'm in Southfields along with the mystery Touche rider. SW also has one of the best fixed shops - Brixton cycles.

RPM will be dropping by soon to chuck some abuse ;-)

fatbloke [quote]fatboyralph rarely see fixed gear riders down my neck of the woods, so that's got to be worth a mention. are we SWners not trendy?!?!

I'm at the top of Wimbledon Park Road and am as cool as $hit.

SWLFGSS, anyone?[/quote]

I'm near Wimbledon Park Road too (Southfields Grid) and I'm cooler than $hit.

Are you the guy on the Pearson Touche who rides down Revelstoke Road?

...and if you have had a $hitty day at work, 30 minutes of mixing it up with the traffic means you've forgotten all about it by the time you get home

Surely Wayne would have had this on his wall...

How much have you got in the way of plys between the innertubs and the fresh air? You might be alright - alternatively you could stop at Ev*ns in Waterloo and pick up a new tyre...

wayne_f14 eeeh when i were a lad this was my poster lady of choice...

When I were a lad this was what adorned my bedroom wall....

skoota i heard a funny story how clarkson introduced himself to kate moss at a party a few years ago with the line: "I'm jeremy clarkson i do top gear" To which she replied " I'm sorry i don't take drugs." much laughter ensued clarkson stumped... and then she obviously went to the bog and had a line of gak the size of one of clarkys eyebrows.

Clarkson's version of that story is that it was Goldie, who was sat next to KM you asked "Are you trying to sell her drugs".

peeterman always plenty of beer in my fridge...

best trappist monks = belgian

How do you measure trappist monks? Are the Belgians the most Monastic? or do they stay quiet the longest? Do they have annual monk-offs?

photoben Waterden rd. Amazing view from our tower. Oh, and we reckon it's a bendy bus depot.....

That could just be wishful thinking mate.

tome I don't get it. Are condor bikes especially heavy, should i look at getting an off the shelf bike? I was originally thinking of getting a lemand fillmore but thought a bike built to spec would be better

A pista will be a chunk better than a filmore as you suspect. Chances are that a fimore will come as a complete bike. If you want to upgrade, you have to buy new parts - which means you are purchasing the lower spec bits that you don't want. On a Condor (or other built-to-spec bike) you pay the difference, so your overall spend is proportionally less.

This thread has been a bit taken over with people teasing each other (for which I am partly responsible!) - just ignore them (us). A pista is a great bike, and even the detractors know this.

(wind up mode)
Oh, and there's loads of middle class people in Tooting as well.
(/wind up mode)

lpg
Before the drug dealers came ...

This photo has been cropped so that you can't see the group of smelly goths queuing up to get into the Electric Ballroom.

Be my light, be my guide - Gene

Scratch that.

Planet EARTH - Duran Duran