Welcome

That's the link I was trying to find last night, heh :)

wow. thanks guys. thats loads of help.
(eeehhhh youre right)i will be honest and say i think couriering looks cool, fixed or free im not fussed about but im sure in time i will favour one. from reading that link i never knew how demanding couriering would be. non the less i wont let it put me off, i have popped up to brick lane bikes and i have put a deposit on a set up with one of their own frames that they will be selling soon. its a fixed wheel but it has a flip flop hub so after an initial mess around possible crash and your advise i will switch it to a free wheel. i already do deliveries at work and as ill be riding to work i can use it for that so i can build to my knowledge of the west end and get fit!

thanks again eeehhhh, punkpixel, the brick and winston. all of your info is a great help to me. step by step i shall go after having a tester ride on a fixed wheel. so alien but strangely addictive.

M

Well good luck with what ever you do melv!

what makes a good courier
the ability to drink copious amounts of beer and crash bike / manage to ride bike safely home delete as appropriate
read a map
put up with british summers
the ability to talk a good ride
minimum of 24 bikes in your hallway at home
what are your top tips for wannabe couriers ?
i sound just like every bloody bbc radio station asking for you to text in with your thoughts or e-mail us at blah blah blah blah blah

Just thought I'd say hi. Found the forum a couple of days ago - I've been riding for a few months N16 to Fitzrovia (thanks to the tax free scheme for getting me off my arse and onto a bike!). I've got a Genesis Flyer, only change has been clipless pedals. Loving the bike and thinking of making the change to fixed. Thanks to the board for some pretty useful stuff on the board about doing this to a flyer.

Hey all..

I'm Arr Jimlad and i'm new!

I thought i'd say hello to everyone before i start posting everywhere annoying you all with my lack of skillz.

I'm a south londoner (not too south) and ride an ss 80's f.w. evans frame that i've built up myself from scratch. i'll get around to posting pics at some point.

Anyway. Hello everybody!

holler

welcome jimlad,

so where is not too south. there are a few of us down that way

Hello mate.

camberwell! reprazent etc etc.

where are you guys based?

Another sarf lonener ay... its better darn sarf! Welcome aboard jimlad :)

edit Camberwell too, well, on the border of Peckham but i keep that quiet! ;)

Bronxley for me.

denver, colorado muthafuka

keep you fingers away from hippys mouth, and do not stand bewtten him and the bar, newbies should be warned.

chris crash denver, colorado muthafuka

thats not in london! fuck off! :)

fuck you and your sister, sideways :)

smiley means its all ok

hi another southerner nice im down clapham way

Ratboy do you have a red bicycle?? I'm just off the Common tube station, how come we haven't bumped into each other yet? Don't worry, I'm not about to invite you for a drink in Kazbarr..

thanks for the warning chris. I'll try to resist the urge to touch his teeth.

Clapham, awesome.. Any camberwellians around??

EDIT: Hey toby, didn't see your edit. Peckham ain't too bad, but SE5 'till death!

Ahoy there! I'm between Cambersmell and Peckham near the Art School but prior to that was a Camberwellian for about 7 years or so. Do you know The Hermits Cave? I used to spend so much time there my mates started to refer to it as 'the front room'.

how now all, fashionable south west london for me... but from up north originally, so still a grumpy fucker

Balham 'gateway to the south' here.

Getting busy down SW way.

plingboot how now all, fashionable south west london for me... but from up north originally, so still a grumpy fucker

whereabouts? Richmond way?

CHUG_IT Ratboy do you have a red bicycle?? I'm just off the Common tube station, how come we haven't bumped into each other yet? Don't worry, I'm not about to invite you for a drink in Kazbarr..
nah a black raleigh no decals and red front tyre i live in that estate behind sainsburys

nimhbus [quote]plingboot how now all, fashionable south west london for me... but from up north originally, so still a grumpy fucker

whereabouts? Richmond way?[/quote]

even further out - other side of k'ston actually