No brakes advice and anti-theives too!

For some reason it was fairly obvious this was a German offering from about twenty seconds in.

This isn't a million miles from what Hitler was back doing in '37...

And at least Hitler was smartly dressed.

Judge Dread was actually British. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread

i think they were referring to the program the video was on.

i think they were referring to the program the video was on.

Indeed I was Aidan - I got intrigued by the Hitlerian gestures and facial gurning that Dread seems to have adopted by the early 80s, I wondered if it was just for the German audience.

hackney downs represent!

I'm also fairly new to fixed, but have brakes. I couldn't skid stop the bike but a couple of weeks ago I rode out with the guys on this forum and afterwards managed to pull it off, still keeping brakes though. I'd have at least a front bike to preserve tyre's if nothing else.

Mike, I ride 48/14 and don't really skid, but it is fairly easy on a ratio like that, you just have to feather the front wheel a little and that unseats the rear allowing you to skid, I can only do this at speed though.

This has got to be a wind up ? Assuming it is not . . .

Hussy get a front brake, you might be fine flying around on 49/16 breakless without the skill to skid stop - regardless of how proud you are of your legs - but if you loose it on London's streets it is not only your pride that is at risk - a cyclist ploughing into a pedestrian or, god forbid, a child who runs out into the road (it happens and it happens a lot around my way) and takes a fractured cheek bone or shattered eye socket will not be seen in a good light when the police find you have sacrificed basic safety to avoid compromising your image or the look of your bike.

If pride in your skill to ride breakless is all important to you - then put a brake on and only use it when you need to.

48x14 tynan? are you insane?

There's a difference between skidding, and skid stopping - the former is done by leaning forward, thus promoting a long slide, the latter is done with bum on, or just off seat, and is designed to slow you down, however inefficiently.

Strong legs or nay hussy, you're going to majorly fuck your knees up even attempting to skid stop 49x16. I'd reccomend 49x19. I ride 50x19 and find it heavy enough to get decent speed up, but easy enough to slow down without a brake (although I have a brake fitted on my bike).

When the lever arrives for your clamp on brake, put it on - if only for safety's sake. I haven't used the brake on my current bike yet, but I feel confident going fast knowing it's there if something bad happens.

tynan do you really ride 48x14?? why?

tynan do you really ride 48x14?? why?

I do yes, please don't kill me :)

I've only recently got happy with my skippy skiddy stopping skillz on 48:19 but when faced with a hectic junction at the bottom of a nasty incline the 105 is just the sensible option.

Primrose "Hill": does what it says on the tin.

Primrose "Hill": does what it says on the tin.

I get off at the base of Primrose Hill - put on my 11t cog and 54t chainring, fill my fakenbag up with bricks, HTFU and get climbing.

can you get up Primrose hill rd. on that gear? (the one by Queens)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K5w8zV9Uoos
:D

I remember judge dread from the first time round.

please don't tell me this cockweasel is having a resurgence

I'm not gonna kill you. i hope youhave a spare set of knees!

can you get up Primrose hill rd. on that gear? (the one by Queens)

Confucius say "man with big gear knows how to go around big hill"

Actually I could get up that hill in 48/14 but I would need a better run up than that corner allows. (No, you can't come flying out of Rothwell street)

can you get up Primrose hill rd. on that gear? (the one by Queens)

Oh yes.

oh you go that way round...

...clever.

I remember judge dread from the first time round.

please don't tell me this cockweasel is having a resurgence

likin' the dread in your tone there, RPM. As far as I know Aidan is the sole culprit here, I skulk around "retro" (never got old..) Jamaican clubs and I've never heard this pap boomin out the bass bins. Long may it continue. shudders

judge dread is dead, so no resurgence is likely, unless it's a posthumous one.

His wikipedia entry makes it sound as though he had a deep rooted understanding of reggae. Lol to that.

I know, weird that he used to work for Trojan (as a "debt collector"), regardless that the owner was (if I remember) also white.. his performance here really seems to suggest a loathing of the reggae genre rather than a reverent love of it - but dems were strange times I guess, I think the Black and White Minstrel Show was still second only to the Morecambe and Wise Chirstmas Special in the TV ratings or something.....

regardless, Aidan demonstrated a cruel cruel streak this aft when he posted that little vignette after such a gorgeous Dekker side...the scamp :P

sorry...
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
will this help?

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no pics no care.