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• #52
lpg Yeah, ok this is a dumb op. It's not really a proper question (you could get hit by a bus tomorrow), more like a thought-stream i was having.
Buffalo bill - i think you're jumping to assumptions. I didn't intend to come across as an elitist, anyone can share the road with me.
especially if you run brakeless ;)
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• #53
probably not. but it's fun while it lasts
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• #54
lpg I saw this geez on a track bike with the most chopped risers ever, furiously pedalling bow-legged. It was really funny. It made me think he must be a mountain biker, or a bmxer, but he's not a road/track biker.
It also made me think about the kind of people that are riding these bikes in London. A lot of people are definately riding them because they're trendy. Fixed wheel bikes, like tamagotchis, flared jeans and pagers, will go out of fashion. I don't know when, but they will. You will look back and think "Aubergine deep v's, what the fuck was i thinking!?"
I like to think people will learn to love riding bikes for transportation, for fitness, and for fun. If fixed wheeled bikes achieve this, then more power to them, but it also made me wonder :
Will you still be riding in 5 years?
Hopefully I will still be riding in 25 years, and I'm already an old git.
Ain't modern medicin great!
Toodle pip.
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• #55
I'll be riding bikes until I'm physically incapable. Always have, see no need to stop.
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• #56
andrewleitch86 Oh yeah. My answer. Almost forgot. I'd not ridden a bike since I was 17 (now 21) before I bought my Fuji in September so I've only been riding for 3 months in the last 4 years. When I move back up to Glasgow and it rains almost every day I'll probably not get out on the bike as much as now but when I finish my uni course in June 2009 I'm hoping to do a medicine degree so that'll be another 5 years of economising my monies so I fully expect to be riding the Fuji in 6 years time.
Yay! medicine conversion course, god i'm looking forward to starting that.
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• #57
Object17 I'll be riding bikes until I'm physically incapable. Always have, see no need to stop.
that sums it up perfectly for me too. and though i mainly ride fixed i do get a kick out of gears, mtbs, etc.
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• #58
I get a kick out of watching jonny ride.
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• #59
Will I be riding in five years time?
Who knows. All I know is when I reduced the amount I was riding bikes when I was an undergrad at uni it did get me down. Now I just wish I could have that riding time back.
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• #60
I quit riding yesterday. I've seen the light and it's hoverboarding..
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• #61
jonny [quote]Object17 I'll be riding bikes until I'm physically incapable. Always have, see no need to stop.
that sums it up perfectly for me too. and though i mainly ride fixed i do get a kick out of gears, mtbs, etc.[/quote]
Where do you go mountain biking? I'm looking for people I cancon intoconvince to start fixed wheel offroading...You know you want to. -
• #62
object, used to live within 10 mins of epping forest so always out there. but mainly we could get the train down to petersfield and go and hit the south downs. have been other places too.
problem is a no longer have my mtb (tho it is with a mate who can i borrow it from). i converted it to SS but he has put gears back on it. i did cross country rather than downhill. never mtb'd fixed but could easily be CONvinced if i had the wheels
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• #63
South downs could be fun. I grew up in North Yorkshire so am well versed in riding up hills too (Though I'm a smoker now so that could be interesting).
I've also never been offroad fixed but am building a bike at the moment. Should be finished in January(ish) but you'll know when it is because I'll have plastered it over the "face/bike thread"
Expect me to start bugging you around about then :]
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• #64
will look out for it Object and yep, will be well up for revisiting the south downs for some off road action. i am sure there will be others on here who would be up for it too so let's start a thread when your bike is ready. nice one.
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• #65
Have done the South Downs Way in a day on fixed, plus other bits and pieces. Makes a nice change occasionally...
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• #66
Why would I (or anyone) stop riding? I've been on a bike since I was 5 (or less, maybe I had a tricycle before then) and it's always been my first choice of transport. There's no reason to stop. Most Audax riders are 50+ agewise and they happily churn out 600k on a weekend. Cycling is for all ages.
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• #67
Hopefully I'll be in Australia by then and as long as my poor old, wrecked knees hold up, I'll be riding... Way of life innit?
Gotta say the fixed thing has injected loads more fun into cycling for me, it used to be something I just did everyday without thinking about it... Now I'm determined to become a regular at Herne Hill next year and actually take part in an 'organised' sport, which I haven't done since playing footy as a teenager... That's gotta be a good thing... No, a great thing! :-)
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• #68
@Scottnotscot, is that an open invite? I may need to find some off road panaché before hand It's been a while (Not that I have any onroad panaché).
@ Jonny, Done. I'll start pimping the concept like hell when the DMR is ready.
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• #69
Makes me glad I'm using my DMR frame. Plenty of crotch clearance :]
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• #70
Love the south downs, have been riding ss mtb for a year and a bit cos i was getting fed up with gears breaking all the time. Did SD's a month ago with geared friend nice and muddy, bivi bagged it overnight and carried on when it was light, was waiting at the top of every hill for him to catch up. Am building up my first fixie for daily commute and will never go back to public transport, so hope to be riding in 5-10-20.......forever years
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• #71
south downs is prob doable on fixed, but once it gets technical like seven stanes?! you have to be a nutter. ive seen some vids of the loops up there...suppose to be more extreme than the welsch ones. cli-machx and cwmcarn have good fast downhills, dunno how they can be done on fixed...and how about jumps and drop offs?!
im up for a south downs mtb run guys if you can get that organised. but not fixed. as much as i like riding fixed, i love going down a singletrack fast
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• #72
fatboyralph im up for a south downs mtb run guys if you can get that organised. but not fixed. as much as i like riding fixed, i love going down a singletrack fast
Done and done. I'm using a SS mountain bike hub with an ISO mounted Spocket for the fixed so fast will also be doable if I can be arsed turning the wheel around.
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• #73
I've got mad skills for the fixed jumps and drop-offs. What I mean is, mad bike-carrying skills :)
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• #74
Where's the fun?!? I haven't been injured for literally weeks...
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• #75
Sounds sensible. I suspect I'll be trying out both. Though, maybe singlespeed whilst I get used to mountain biking again would be sensible (Crazy long, i.e. not bmx, wheelbase).
What ratio / gear inch are you pushing)
I think there is only a period of about 2-3 years that I have not ridden a bike? So I don't see why I wouldn't be still doing it in 5 years?