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Scherrit and Corrine are friends of mine and we're clubmates in Twickenham CC.

Apart from being the biggest bike geeks in London, offering the best fitting and spannering service around (who else do you know that rebuilds Campag ergo levers?) if you want to get fitter and faster on your bike, Scherrit also offers a very reasonably priced coaching package.

Where do you shoot Charlotte?

Until recently with the Greenwood Osterley lot. But my membership lapsed :(

I'm something of a knife geek myself, too. You'll rarely catch me leaving the house without a blade somewhere on my person - not carrying one doesn't feel right somehow. Much like the OP, I tend to EDC a Spyderco UKPK. This is my one:

When I'm out in the wilds, I go for a Frosts Mora in a rather lovely little leather sheath (probably cost more than the knife!):

This little bad boy rides in a pouch on my Chrome bag - no way it's likely to get me into any trouble because it's not really a knife. It's a Benchmade ERT-1 emergency rescue tool and incorporates a seatbelt/ligature cutter, an LED light and an automatic glass punch:

And as someone mentioned bowsan'arrahs, here's how I carry my compound bow when I'm going off to archery club:

It's funny how much more room you get from overtaking cars when you've got that on your back and a quiver full of carbon arrows sticking out of your pannier...

Nice to meet all you guys - thanks for keeping it sensible with the vava-voom; us card-carrying CTC types aren't allowed to jump lights, you know...

Please tell me you're doing it on the penny farthing this year. That really would be awesome.

Quite possibly.

Go for the B67, they're a good size, very comfortable and defintely absorb the shock from the road without making it feel too springy like a pogo stick.

That's the one I was thinking of - in black. The ones with springs at the front look like they might make me sea-sick...

Will you be on your penny farthing Charlotte? Please say yes!

I'm coming straight from work, so that's a no, I'm afraid. Even if I could zoom home and get it, I'd be ridiculously slow and if we're going for a proper ride, I'd be left well behind.

I've got a B17, a B17s, a Professional S and a ladies' Finesse (the poncy Ti-railed one).

Brooks saddles are unimaginably wonderful and I'm going to be buying yet another for the penny - this time one of the huge fancy sprung ones.

Okay, you've convinced me. I'll be the one with the red hair and the none-more-black bike.

Still tempted to come, but ever so slightly concerned about what to expect. Are you intending a gentle cruise around West Twelve ending in caffeine and calories or are you looking to rip up the warm tarmac with the sheer manly torque that your rear tyres can exert on it, mashton?

Worried of Ealing

When I'm not carrying a Zefal HPX frame pump (the daddy of all frame pumps - will get a tub up to 160psi, no problem) I carry one of these:

It's good because it's got a T handle that folds out so your hand doesn't ache. I'm no body-builder, but I once pumped my partner's tyre up with it and when we got home, she went to top it up it on the track pump and saw it was already at 120psi.

Recommended.

I have some black RPM ones (square taper fitting) at 165mm. Probably no ring or bolts. Depends how posh you're after?

I'd no more let a bloke with a pressure washer on three quid an hour near my bikes than I'd let a knife-wielding maniac into my bedroom at 3am. The thought of it makes my bowels go all squicky.

Soapy water, spray on degreaser, old rags and soft brushes FTW

I always ride with at least one brake. I like to keep my face convex.

Asymmetrical wheels? He must have some monster chalfonts.

Out of interest why do you take your brakes on/off according to the weather?

I don't. I have more than one fixed :-p

I get off work at noon on Friday and I'm not so far away from the Beeb. What are we talking here - gentle bimble or madarsed alleycat?

What do you ride during the week?

In the winter, a black fixed with two brakes, mudguards, rack and a dynohub.

In the summer, a black fixed.

ah, charlotte, you go to the co-op in south ealing, i have said hi a few times.

That's me! Nice to put another name to a face :-)

I ride gears at the weekend. If me and my partner are on the tandem or if I'm training with my club, fixed isn't an option.

Bollocks to all that uber-zen connectedness codswallop - gears mean I can go faster and to my mind, that's A Good Thing.

At some stage, I'm going to do the Dave Yates week and build my own. Mind you - how expensive can some brazing kit and a rudimentary jig be?

Couriers are hugely attractive to the opposite sex (whichever that may be)

As well as to a goodly proportion of the same sex, I'll have you know...

I was a 3rd cat when my licence expired last year. I wasn't planning on racing this year so didn't renew it. If I didn't have to cough up to BC for a new one, I'd do this, though.

Charlotte, bring the Penny - the fallout will be hilarious!

I'd not be fast enough. Srsly, you'll get pissed off waiting for me to catch up.

But I'll be on the next CM on it :)

The Dun run is almost completely pan flat. There's one kicker which you can walk up, but that's about it. I ran 74" the last time I did it on fixed and it was absolutely fine.