Shit fixie skidders say...

The speeds are typically lower and I find it much easier to slow down off road as skid stopping digs in more combined with naturally slowing down more quickly due to increase rolling resistance.

Since he is back today, deserves quoting here

I've ridden Swains in 94"

lovely condish

Urgh, I can't stand abbreviayshes like that.

It’s been a grail frame for quite a while... I hope it’s special but that’ll be proved in the riding...

Yeah brother! You shouted FIXED GEAR. Kept the legs turnin all day

Only dickheads ride bikes.

Ha.

so question number 2 - a slightly more tricky one possibly... does anyone know how to make my steerng.. less responsive?

The trouble is, its so clean and new in there, that if i lift the bike a little the front end flops down loose, all the way round, usually sending my calliper crashing into my downtube....

I quite like it on older steel frames where the steering axis isnt loose like blowing in the wind, its more just that it wont turn any further than when you move it.. usually it looks like thats because theres a good amount of darkened grease keeping it slow and squishy...

any ideas? maybe some kind of incredibly thick but clean and slow moving grease?

Ultegra is for peasants

Could be also golf club candidate.

Lotus 110, ex-GAN frame used by Pascal Lance
Was pretty handy for drafting vans down the A127 in Southend or sending through the woods on dry days.

damn beat me to it :)

I think it is about details, composition, thoughtful engineering/tectonics, fabrication quality/material choices, price point and timeless understated graphics and obviously the most elegant geometry version of the required fit and intended use

“ride what you brung/fuck shit up” is the vibe I’m getting from that : /

First I read your comment as a matter of modernism being blind to its ideals as formalist as they are explained through function?

Where as form that is being added, such as the Sklar bend, is considered lesser because form is not considered a function.

Now, now lads- it is actually quite an interesting discussion. Certainly a cut above the usual 'OMGZ, that is rad, that is anti' level of discourse from your average LFGSS non-fixie non-skidder.

Then again, I wouldn't expect it to be interesting to anyone who had actually paid money for a Talbot / Isen ;)

I thought designer chat was pretty standard for lfgss

Tectonics is the do-a-skid of 2020, now all you OG forumers have fucked your knees

4 matches for the word 'formalist' on LFGSS; 10,148 for the word 'rad'.

I rest my case, m'lord.

10,148 for the word 'rad'

Tbf, 10,145 of those were @Howard

Ha!

Get a helmet, and not too big gear, you'll be fine ;)
Decade riding brakeless, just fitted one recently though: getting too old!

now all you OG forumers have fucked your knees

I have a feeling the few of us on here who still ride fixed have actually been around for a while.