Do you know of any famous people/presenters who ride fixed gear?

whats that big japanese stylist dude called hiroshi sumthing . .. he owns a few bikes . . . gotta be NJS aswell i bet with his supreme lock . . .

what's with all the aggro on here? everyone calling other people, who they don't know, complete massive wankers/cunt. err... how old are we? get a grip please.

/ has no one mentioned eric clapton
he's obsessed with them.
and at least a half decent celebrity.
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/01/from-bsnyc-culture-desk-clapton-by-eric.html

^ racist (Eric Clapton that is - not you Henry)

Jeff Banks? Adrian Chiles?

what's with all the aggro on here? everyone calling other people, who they don't know, complete massive wankers/cunt. err... how old are we? get a grip please.

it's the internet. it was invented to call people cunts and to let a lot of people see that you called them a cunt.
i'm 37.

^ racist (Eric Clapton that is - not you Henry)

really?
the only bad thing i heard he was into was killing animals mindlessly for sport.

really?
the only bad thing i heard he was into was puppy killing mindlessly for sport.

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So what did young Eric do with this bike?

...by taking one of the brakes off, removing the mudguards, stripping it down, and giving it different tires--the kind for riding over mud--I turned it into what we call a “track” bike.

Berets are great for winter, gonna be massive this year! ;)

Can't they just make em smaller? or will they shrink in the wash

Guide to shaping berets - As per the Army:

1. Get two bowls of water - one as hot as you can bear, one cold.
   
2. Soak the beret in the hot water until it is completely saturated (DON'T get the leather band around the bottom wet, or you'll never get it on your head again)
   
3. Wring it out.
   
4. Transfer the beret in the cold water until saturated (Watch that leather though)
   
5. Wring it out.
   
6. Repeat 2-4 a couple more times.
   
7. Finishing with the hot water, wring it out and put it on your head.
   
8. Shape it into whatever style you like - Che Guevara, Renee from 'allo aloo', whatever you like.
   
9. keep the thing on your bonce for about half hour then take it off very carefully, keeping it in it's shape.
   
10. Leave to dry overnight.
    
11. Et Voila. One beret shaped to you that you can fold, twist, crumple up and will always return to it's shape, whilst fitting well.
    
    

Good luck hipsters.

until that is, you take it on excercise, get pissed on by the great british outdoors, crumple you beret and get fucked.

have swimming caps been a hipster flavour of the month yet?

waterproof AND aerodynamic.

Only 2 people can pull of the beret

really?
the only bad thing i heard he was into was killing animals mindlessly for sport.

He was one of the reasons Rock Against Racism was founded back in the 70s, due to comments he made in support of Enoch Powell (which included some extremely racist comments).

What about that radio presenter on 6?

i think it would be the kind of thing the radio4 crew would find interesting. without a presenter tho, i guess the show would be harder to sell. and its often useful to have a presenter who people might know .... but didnt know they had an interest in... said subject.

You mean a celebrity? Why? Always bloody celebrities; celebrities go to look at endangered animals, celebrities go to look at the disappearing ice caps, celebrities talk about fixed gear bikes. For an example of an interesting and well received radio 4 programme about cycling search this forum for 'courier documentary'.

i think it would be the kind of thing the radio4 crew would find interesting. without a presenter tho, i guess the show would be harder to sell. and its often useful to have a presenter who people might know .... but didnt know they had an interest in... said subject.

You mean a celebrity? Why? Always bloody celebrities; celebrities go to look at endangered animals, celebrities go to look at the disappearing ice caps, celebrities talk about fixed gear bikes. For an example of an interesting and well received radio 4 programme about cycling search this forum for 'courier documentary'.

Didn´t Paul Smith ride a fixed gear bike?

Paul Smith told me off once for cycling on the pavement

I've managed to quote myself there.

Is this really how programmes get commissioned these days? Did you check here before or after Wikipedia?

Is this really how programmes get commissioned these days? Did you check here before or after Wikipedia?

Same time. Tabbed browser.

people famous for being famous how amazing is that!
people interested in the lives of the 'famous' because their own dull lives are banal in the extreme
that's tragic.

From HolyMoly.

Who could that mole have been.....

Sour Cream

A mole spotted a certain British guitar legend in a bicycle shop recently (Condor on Grey's Inn Road, if you insist) and described him as resembling 'a rather haughty tanned scrotum'.
The shop assistant was fawning over his famous client so much that he was beginning to resemble Gollum meeting the Queen, and his gasps of delight when a bike was finally sold to the great man were a joy to behold.
Eventually, the cap-doffing shop boy began to take the guitarist's details, inevitably requiring various bits of information.
"And sir's e-mail address?"
The reply was just a touch surprising for our lurking mole.
"Yes," said the man once described as 'God' by some fucking idiot with a spray can and an expanse of whitewashed wall, "My e-mail address is ."
Without raising an eyebrow or missing a beat, the toadying continued: "And can I ask, is sir spelling that with a 'K' or an 'N'"?

/ has no one mentioned eric clapton
he's obsessed with them.
and at least a half decent celebrity.
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/01/from-bsnyc-culture-desk-clapton-by-eric.html

I fucking hate Eric Clapton, even more than I hate David Bowie... And that's saying something... He's a fucking cunt...

I fucking hate Eric Clapton, even more than I hate David Bowie... And that's saying something... He's a fucking cunt...

yeah, the man's a cunt.

at least bowie made his own music, mostly.

I fucking hate Eric Clapton, even more than I hate David Bowie... And that's saying something... He's a fucking racist cunt...

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yeah, the man's a racist cunt.

at least bowie made his own music, mostly.

Also fixed.

I think Jade Goody ought to ride fixed and brakeless.