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get to know the locals
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Glasgow is a cool place, like a mini London, but with less wnakers.... My girlfriend went to GSA - I'll tell u now that it is on top of one big fscking hill!! but really most of the area is quite flat, there are a couple of big hills in the middle of town. If your living in the West End or South of the river, Pollockshields etc. then you'll be cool with a fixed.
I remember bidding on a track frame that had been used in Glasgow in ebay.... so someone must ride them up there. I'm thinking of moving up to Glasgow in the next few years, I do actually prefer the weather - maybe we'll pass each other on our fixies in the future sometime!
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It's great, a great place. Plenty of hills too (unlike this London lark, well maybe the road up to Hampstead) and you'll never see the nut-jobs. The only snag is that as it's not enormous you find yourself on the same routes quite quickly. Eglinton Road (at Bridge Street) is a serious bag of bullshit at rush hour.
Best of all is few have jumped on the fixie band-wagon in the way they have down here (London), so it's really just those who know. You'll have a ball.
Also, buy some Sealskinz...
48 x 17 if you've had your porridge - c'mon the legs!
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I'll be moving to Glasgow with my girlfriend in Spetember to study at the GSA. I was just wondering how the fixed-gear scene is in Glasgow and if there's anything we should know, any info will help. I heard that Glasgow will be getting a velodrome in 2010 (?)... Thanks.