New Langsters

I'm upgrading.. tomorrow night it'll be out of the 70's and straight into 2004 baby!!!!!!! :)

You getting a Langster hippy?

lpg You getting a Langster hippy?

Me? No truckin' way! I need to have something slightly odd otherwise my wookie breaks and my mojo flies away..

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mmm black phil wood hubs... i love them. i wonder if will/hubjub can get them ...

SJS has them I think.

You might be able to buy mine at a massively overinflated price if I don't like the bike.. ;)

hippy I'm upgrading.. tomorrow night it'll be out of the 70's and straight into 2004 baby!!!!!!! :)
yeeeeaaaahahhh!!!! come on!!!

how was the soma hippy ? has it arrived yet ? nice ride ?

I'm picking it up tonight. Currently sitting at home losing a day's pay for a fscking Sky installation! Grrr!
The things I do just to watch the Tour..

are you cycling back from dartford ? give it a nice work out ?

I'll see how I go. I'm taking pedals and a pedal spanner as well as multitool for saddle height tweaking. Hopefully I don't forget my spuds!

I didn't really want to ride it back if it's raining or getting dark but as it'll be peak hour, geting it on a train ain't gonna happen anyway so yeah, I'll probably be riding it home.

I did the same with the Raleigh. First fixed ride in London and first time on a fix in 2 years and I had to ride it from East to West London. Easier than I thought in the end, except for a slipping seatpost.

good luck look forward to seeing that in the sunshine on londons streets soon

hippy

I did the same with the Raleigh. First fixed ride in London and first time on a fix in 2 years and I had to ride it from East to West London. Easier than I thought in the end, except for a slipping seatpost.

yeah, i did the same rode back from the barbican to ealing first time fixed.....it was ok, other than smacking in to two fucking great big twats who walked out from behind a bus..

dicki good luck look forward to seeing that in the sunshine on londons streets soon

You bring the sun, I'll bring the Soma :)

31trum [quote]yeah, i did the same rode back from the barbican first time fixed.....it was ok, other than smacking in to two fucking great big twats who walked out from behind a bus..

Ooops.. I actually had a black cab driver talking to me about riding fixed!! It was surreal :) They're not all out to get us ;)

I'm reading some of these posts and I have to laugh. Do you realize how self-absorbed you sound as you dictate the terms of what's cool and what's not? I am born and raised in NYC. I've ridden the streets of Manhattan since I was a schoolboy. Almost lost my right foot to a cabbie who ran a red light. Took me two years to walk properly again. After this long recovery, I'm back out there again, have ridden almost 1800 miles in 2007 thus far, with a long-term goal of riding Paris-Brest-Paris in 2011. Part of the preparation involves the Boston-Montreal-Boston 1200K in 2008. Because it' involves Boston and it's part of my recovery from near disaster and there's a Boston edition Langster and the geometry fits my body well, I reserved one. But if I read you right, because I want this bike I'm not cool; when you see me you will assume I'm just a coffee shop poseur. You'll disrespect me when you see me on this bike, blissfully unaware that I have eight other bikes in my garage (vintage junkie - and three of them I built myself from mongrels). You'll look at my bike and not my muscle tone as you decide I'm not worth speaking to. Perhaps you should consider taking a moment or two to get to know someone, judging them by their character instead by some artificially-created social standard. The coolest thing you can do is decide for yourself what is good instead of relying on the crowd to decide for you.

BTW, The Giant Bowery is named after an NYC neighborhood on the lower east side of Manhattan...

"The coolest thing you can do is decide for yourself what is good instead of relying on the crowd to decide for you."

i still don't much like them, mainly because there are other bikes out there of better value for money where the cash has been spent not on a focus group attempting to capture the zeitgeist in a £399 bike but on decent components.

I think you missed the irony in some of the posts BTW.

Glad we could bring a smile to your dial Mr Troll. I was born and raised in Australia where bikes are dusty things taking valuable garage space away from cars and car parts.
I didn't know any specs. for the new edition Langster geometry had been released. If you assuming they will have the same geometry you might be in for a surprise.
Do they have rack mounts? I hope you've got plans to swap the flat bars out.
I ride a cheap alu road bike and yet have 3x steel track bikes in my fleet. Do I care enough about this to post a big defence of my crappy Ribble? Err.. no.
Seems like you ARE worried about your bike's appearance on the streets - now that's not like an Audaxer to care. Think of how it's gonna look covered in road grime, racks, stickers, bottles, etc.
Good luck getting that bike to survive two 1200k audaxes AND the training that goes with 'em. Sorry, I'm still going to look down on green Langsters, just the same way people will look down on my cheap geared bike.

MyLangster served me well but as every else in my life i think that now it's time for a change...

Greenman,
This thread is about the new Langsters, not about you.
If you decide to buy one, so what?

I don't think the comments have been particularly aimed at "what's cool, or not"..this forum doesn't work like that.

It's quite simply a cheap road going singlespeed bike, available in several different colours and spec.

No doubt, some people will like it, and some wont, mostly though no-one gives a toss.

lol....monday blues?

Greenman I'm reading some of these posts and I have to laugh. Do you realize how self-absorbed you sound as you dictate the terms of what's cool and what's not? I am born and raised in NYC. I've ridden the streets of Manhattan since I was a schoolboy. Almost lost my right foot to a cabbie who ran a red light. Took me two years to walk properly again. After this long recovery, I'm back out there again, have ridden almost 1800 miles in 2007 thus far, with a long-term goal of riding Paris-Brest-Paris in 2011. Part of the preparation involves the Boston-Montreal-Boston 1200K in 2008. Because it' involves Boston and it's part of my recovery from near disaster and there's a Boston edition Langster and the geometry fits my body well, I reserved one. But if I read you right, because I want this bike I'm not cool; when you see me you will assume I'm just a coffee shop poseur. You'll disrespect me when you see me on this bike, blissfully unaware that I have eight other bikes in my garage (vintage junkie - and three of them I built myself from mongrels). You'll look at my bike and not my muscle tone as you decide I'm not worth speaking to. Perhaps you should consider taking a moment or two to get to know someone, judging them by their character instead by some artificially-created social standard. The coolest thing you can do is decide for yourself what is good instead of relying on the crowd to decide for you.

Perhaps you are buying a Langster for the right reasons but surely your not oblivious to the negative connotations surrounding such a bike. To most messengers/fakengers/early adopters the langster represents an ever encroaching commerciality on what up till recently has been an exclusive - read: Cool if you wish- past-time. They...We? Do not hate the riders of these bikes but the companies who so obvisously just jump on the bandwagon to make a quick buck. I simply think it is human nature to want some sort of exclusivity, to be unique, be it in the way they dress, the music they listen to or the bike they ride. Langsters are what Harry Potter is to The black Magician trilogy, what East 17 are to Take That!

oh it was going so well till the Take That bit!! could have said something like Libertines to Clash...thumbs up though

i think hes a specialized rep:)