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If it's for this forum, I'd say it should be, fastest rolla 500m, fastest night ride to brighton, fastest alleycat and most beer (or units of alcohol) drunk in one night visiting all the compass point "drinks"?

that's pretty all round isn't it?

Having said that I'd only be interested in the drinks one... I'm the least competative... so nah! object.

damn it, forgot trackstanding and plat beat me to the beers coment...

i would HTFU mate..... but i prefer to hear the traffic after having all my front teeth smashed out in july and having a nice £5k dental bill to have to take legal action to reclaim.... so il stick to music in the sticks please :-0

You don't mention what you were doing that would have been safer without music?

Every crash I've had has been unrelated to hearing except in the cases where it was someone relying too much on thier hearing.

I mainly have dreams about my bikes falling to bits (which they do iRL too)... last one I remeber I was cycling through a park and bits of my bike were falling off like rain on path... till I was just holding on to a pair of drops and sitting on a seat that was floating along...

If I'm in a bad mood they tend to be about me cycling fast and something going wrong and me crashing and burning very badly.

One of my friends from uni (who spend 99% of his life up to that point living in lovely clean country air) used to cough up black crap if he smoked a cig (bizarrely he was fine with weed in a pipe, but give him a spliff which was the only time he was going to try tobacco... and he'd basically be vomitting up black stuff!?)...

I'm a smoker. About to give up, the idea of coughing up black stuff doesn't sound too appealing... but as many have said better out than in...

So when's the next one?

I was there (albeit breifly) and won a race (albeit with a terrible time) my first racing of any kind/meeting people I know from the internet face-to-face!

(no photo's of me though, am I that ugly!?!)

Considering how shitty this forum can be to new people who put a word wrong, it was amazingly welcoming... really enjoyed myself, will be along at the next one (this time without having to leave before 8.30)...

Would people mind a small child coming along (small being 5 years old), would the pub allow it (obviously just for before 8.30)? Or is there an event for parents who want to indocrinate their children into racing in they way the parents never had the chance too?

Have I asked too many questions? (and used to many brackets?)

I feel like a bit of a cheat as I've not played, and don't have a bike I'm willing to turn up on yet (I have a mountain bike that needs all it's bearings replaced, bb and both hubs, that will become my winter+polo bike, but not till I fix up my other bikes)... having said all that I do want to give it a go and the t-shirts do look good?!

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nope, if you´re constantly switching between geared bike and fixed wheel bike, it shouldn´t even have an impact.

however thought if you have been riding fixed wheel for months, even years, then it would come as a surprise.

As usual ed you've hit the nail on the head, I don't switch constantly, I use my geared when I have mechanical problems with my fixed, which usually lasts at least a week or two before I have a chance to fix/jury-rig/take to LBS... About three times in the last year, after each time, I forget I can't freewheel.

The opposite happens too, the first time in a while I go geared I forget you can freewheel, but that doesn't really cause a problem, at least not as much...

Hmmm, can't decide if I should try to use the geared on occation just to mix them up or carry on as is...

Funny thing is that my fixed is a beaten up holdsworth (frankenbike) that is almost the same age as me and my geared is a shiny silver trek racer... If I had to label one as a beater it would be the trek... I don't think anyone outside of this forum would think the same way...

Bella, is this the same guy in the story you posted a couple of months ago?

If it is, sounds like he can afford to buy this, if he doesn't like it he's got to remeber it's not a normal commuting bike and he should try a more normal one...

If he's that shallow, he might find being spotted on his commute to work enough of a pleasure to outweight any danger/lack of comfort! After all I do wonder how many of the fixie riders on here stick with fixies in the hope they'll stand out from the crowd?! ;-)

Just in case it didn't annoy some of you enough you enough:
***FIXIE
[B][U]FIXIE
[B][U]FIXIE
[B][U]FIXIE
[B][U]FIXIE
[B][U]FIXIE ***
[/U][/B][/U][/B][/U][/B][/U][/B][/U][/B]

Basically if I don't ride my fixed for a week (which means I'm riding geared instead), I always forget the first time I go out and try to free wheel (usually over a speed bump by my house)... is this normal or does it bode badly for getting clipless peddles?!

Does this mean I shouldn't smoke weed before cycling?

Should I STFU? (smarten)

There must be a law you can pursue if someone willfully tries to run you off the road? Avoiding damage shouldn'g stop it being illegal?!

I america I beleive it would fall under reckless endangerment, but not sure what the english version is?

I crashed into a cyclist who was probably relying too much on his ears, turned without looking or signalling... right into me who was overtaking on his right.

I ride with headphones, but they hardly block out anything, just add music to the noise of traffic around me.

I was at the sept one too, saw a taxi get sidi'd and a motorcyclist get chased down, but not what caused either thing. I also saw a load of ninja police dragging cyclists off the road... But I think the vast majority did not take part in anything except a plesant cycle ride through london.

yep, its obvious but somehow really moronic. Like calling the Edgware Road 'the road that goes all the way to Anglesea' (which it is, but who cares?)

You are fucking fired from London.
(c) Charlie Brooker

Ha, You can't fire me I've got squatters rights! :-)

What's the northernline road?

the road that follows the northern line... isn't it obvious?
Should have mentioned that I was talking about south of the river where for the main part the northern line is mirrored above by roads. Saw him first on clapham common southside, he disappeared off my route on borough high st... there's about 6 road names, but it's basically one straight road (give or take a round about and one way system)...

Tallsam, no, I'm suggesting ss with one brake and brakeless are both equally crazy choices to ride on london's roads, but if I was going to the track with my light-as-fuck track bike (which obviously wouldn't have breaks) it's acceptable to ride it there.

And yeah, I'm aware that stopping with your front wheel is more effective than stopping your back, although I hope you are not suggesting that a back brake is more effective than a fixed gear.

Last night did make me think of fitting a second brake to my fixed.

Do you think I could fit two on the front?

Well, leaving snot-boy's comment aside, what, if anything, has Critical Mass achieved?

It's fun.

Does it have to achieve anything?

It's managed to get me and a friend from uni to speak to each other on a near monthly basis and it gives me something interesting to do when I'm broke.

Litt, Considering the number of foremengers who go to it or the foundary afterwards, I don't think there's any real opposition to it...

Actually it does acheive something, a large amount of bike anti-pathy amongst road users (particuarly taxi drivers who often end up with sidi shaped dents in their taxis)...

Shins bike?

Would you get annoyed with posts that have a bumping effect? Or do you want to be in sole control of bumping...

(oh and does putting "I want to buy a poster" in a mail work too?)

A card for keeping a prison tally of near deaths, HTFU on the back?

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd need a bigger card... quite possibly a bigger wheel.

Got cut up by one yesterday who pulled out on to great portland without looking, he was a fucker.

Generally they are great. More often than not they create space for a cyclist to pass, what with being at least a bikes width smaller than a lane whilst still not being able to shoot gaps.

I'd still like to see if they'd be willing to take me back to wimbledon and how much it would cost... on and if they'd let me pedal part of the way. Imagine going down hill on one of them?!

There's a huge place in morden for those in the south, where I used to get my steal toe caps when I didn't work in an office! Guy is plesant although with an element of cabbie-esque/daily mail type bigotry...

I have two rim brakes riding fixed. So I have three! It must be safe! Yes!

I saw the opposite of that today, green frame coming up the northernline road, SS with only front brake... is that the ss equivilent of going brakeless except without the excuse of being on the way to a track? WTF?
(by the way he had a flip/flop but no cog on the fixed side)

I had brake cable fail yesterday so road home brakeless... fucking scary. I assume people that choose to go brakeless don't go down any of the hills that I do!?

I'd be up for helping too, although I'm pretty much a commuter... pm me if you decide to do it again...

I've meaning to get something with gps anyway, so might be able to post data after christmas (when I'll probably get it)... pm me if/when you start up the idea again.

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(is that £10 including delivery charge?! :-)

What's juvenile about a bad pun?

I'm not getting into this, I don't want to be called punist... I'd like to point out I like puns, sarcasm, slap-stick, satire, racial slurs, all forms of humour, I don't judge on anything... not even how funny something is...

(as you can tell from this post)