Norwich FG

Snarble
Norwich
Sanchez Swobo
42/16
(still have my goldfinger on but once my dad releases spd's from my Cannodale r600....)
Any other FG riders from Norwich frequent LFGSS? Does anyone want to get a regular ride going?

Hello. I am in Norwich. But I got hit by a car a few days ago so alas I have no bike.

If you are out on a ride with Vinz and see a 4x4 - drop your bike and run away from him !

;P

Shazaammm, I've been to the NandN too; faceplanted on magdalen ST, I came around in a ambulance. After X-rays the radiographer said I had a broken nose+cheekbone but doctor said Paracetemol and bed rest hmmmmmmmmmm. ( Also when I was a courier -1 of 2- got knocked off a few times nothing that nasty though) But do you know Sam? He said there were quite a few FG meetings.
Anyway sorry to hear about 4x4 anti-christ, when you've fleeced the ironmonger what are you going to go for?

I grew up in Naar-ridge, but it doesn't really look the same any more. They keep building generic shopping malls everywhere.

Still, my family live there (well, mum's in Wymondham, to be precise). It might just be me, but does Norwich seem to have gotten less pleasant in the last ten years or so? Last time I went back - about a year ago - it just reminded me of Kingston-upon-Thames; Starbucks, Caffé Nero and The Carphone Warehouse on every other corner.

Gas Hill was still a bitch, though. ;-)

Yup generic is the name of the game. Have you seen riverside? (clubs and pubs for the nova boys) They' ve built a new mall and library where all the kiddies try and pretend to be grown ups. But I've downsized though I grew up in North London(Nags Head) should really sling my hook take Swobo and try some real traffic. Hmmm gas hill would that be possible in 42/16?

"norwich is the provence of great britain"

"norwich is the provence of great britain"

No it's not. People want to move to Provence.

;-)

Have you seen riverside? (clubs and pubs for the nova boys) They' ve built a new mall and library where all the kiddies try and pretend to be grown ups.

Sadly, I have borne witness to both these monstrosities.

Hmmm gas hill would that be possible in 42/16?

Technically, yes (I remember some nuts kid doing it on a BMX when I was about 13).

i went to art college in norwich, i really like the place and if the mtb riding was any good i would consider living there.
i went back there last year after 10 years and was amazed at how poncy it was but i suppose you can say that about most places

happy memories
the orb gig at the uea
scotch eggs and jazz on a sunday in that pub near the bottom of st benedicts st
bannofie pie at the arts center and the lovely pair behind the bar
cinema city
some of the best beer and fish and chips in the south
halcyon days :-)

Dude....I was at the behemoth that is NSAD:1998-2001. As for the lovely pair did you ever meet Miriam? Oh lala. Yesterday we had a little night spin and my Bontrager hardcases survived crushing a wine bottle...Ossh was drunk so didn't see it. Also my cog keeps slipping you can tap it back(to tighten) with a hammer and screwdriver right?

Dude....I was at the behemoth that is NSAD:1998-2001. As for the lovely pair did you ever meet Miriam? Oh lala. Yesterday we had a little night spin and my Bontrager hardcases survived crushing a wine bottle...Ossh was drunk so didn't see it. Also my cog keeps slipping you can tap it back(to tighten) with a hammer and screwdriver right?

Rotafix.

See here:

http://204.73.203.34/fisso/eng/schpignone.htm

Thankyou..was a bit weirded out when I was out of the seat peddaling and it skipped. I'll have to give it a go tonight my morning commute beckons.

Still, my family live there (well, mum's in Wymondham, to be precise). It might just be me, but does Norwich seem to have gotten less pleasant in the last ten years or so? Last time I went back - about a year ago - it just reminded me of Kingston-upon-Thames; Starbucks, Caffé Nero and The Carphone Warehouse on every other corner.

That sound like every town in the UK.

I was in Norwich for my first 23 years, now in London. Am I going to have to defend it all by myself?!

I thought Carrow road was the name of Norwich FG?
I lived there for 6 months - come on the canaries!
Norwich is nice and has a disproportionately large number of attractive women.
Riverside is terrible.

I loved growing up there 20 years ago, it's just that the place has changed beyond all recognition since I left and I'm bitter because my 'home' isn't how I remembered it.

Kind of like when you bump into the 'hot girl' from school and find that, at 30, she's got more kids than teeth and thinks that pajamas are suitable attire for a trip to Tesco.

I will always be grateful for growing up with Mousehold Heath literally across the street from my house. I will, conversely, always be ungrateful for the fact that this meant I was in the catchment area for The Blyth-Jex School For Petty Criminals.

Riverside is terrible.

It is, but it serves a purpose. It keeps all of the hair-gel/shiny shirt posse in one place and those of us with less, er... 'Loaded'-esque tastes can choose to simply avoid the place. That and Prince Of Wales Road. I seem to remember reading a statistic a few years back that claimed that 80% of all violent crime in Norwich took place on that one street between the hours of 11pm-3am on Friday and Saturday nights.

Im in Cambridge, but frequent the Norfolk area now and again so Norwich is easy to get to. Easier than london....
How many other Cambridge riders other than me and Fc9k are ther I wonder. We could have Cambridge V Norwich polo....

I lived in London up until I was 22 then moved to London as my Girlfriend got a job here as a teacher. It is a lovely place to live, the large student population means that nightlife is quite varied and the Broads mean you can hop on a boat for the weekend.

London will always be my home but like Norwich it has changed drastically since I lived there. It seems to have lost its heart. To much style and not enough substance?

Errr I seemed to have opened pandora's box...Well the men in suits are re-developing Norwich and with Browntonian's mass housebuilding ravens gathering; will this quaint medieval city still have any of it's dark heart remaining in the decades to come?

But I didn't quite get that link Turpe? I understand that I will be tightening my sprocket but it says I won't need my lockring? But the lockring is to make the hub fixed isn't it?

But I didn't quite get that link Turpe? I understand that I will be tightening my sprocket but it says I won't need my lockring? But the lockring is to make the hub fixed isn't it?

It's more to do with the getting the cog on super-tight. Since most track riders don't skip-stop etc. a lockring isn't so vital - as simply going forward is constantly tightening the cog, it's only when you are resisting hard that you start to unscrew the cog. For street use, though, you definitely want a lockring and you should just torque the living shit out of said lockring. A common trick is to slide a bit of heavy piping over your lockring tool to get more leverage.

AAArrr hello Turpe so I have experienced a few probs as I am putting on my SPD's today I just thought I check in with control tower fixie. Symptoms: hard efforts results in skipping? ie If I am going up a steep hill the cranks skip and its like the chain has come off+If I am doing a skid a similar thing happens again+also when starting off sometimes the cranks slip for a pedal strokes or 2 before finding traction So I guess the cog is slipping?

 So I used that trick of wrapping the chain inside itself and the wheel did move back a bit. Also I have a lockring tool now, and by placing the bike upside down, holding the lockring tool against the frame and twisting the wheel clockwise I found there was quite a bit of play before it tightened up. So assuming I keep doing this perodically I shouldn't get any more slips? Snarble just doesn't want to go into a skid at 20mph behind a car and cling faceplant whilst locked in.

I just got back to Norwich after a few years away. I found a fixed facebook group, but no one seems to ride anywhere on their bikes. If any Norwich riders fancy a spin let me know.

do the larkman boys still send the little chav to steal the bike then all pile in when you say no?

Never found myself there on the bike, but perhaps a good reaction to that tactic would be don't stop and crank hard?