Welcome

To be honest, Detective Sergeant, you could be wasting your time here...

Aahhh (To the kid, not you! But am sure you're very nice, etc. etc.)
Nice kidenger bag on the back there! Would recommend one of these though...

Welcome, and don't worry they're all harmless on here.
Except for Hippy, he's usually legless :)

thanks, i know, i am definitely going to get one of those but this was his first ride on the bike with me and the little one`s dad says this is cruel to put little kids in the seat like this... because when they fall asleep the head is hanging down and it must be painful

question, hmmm... i want to have a fixed gear bike no to impress anybody just to challenge myself as i see people riding them for quite a few years in london and just fell in love

so how to get one, where to start with a very low budget if you want one, maybe just wait to have saved enough and buy one of them very expensive ones from ebay? or maybe try to convert one on my own? or find someone who could do this for me?

Go here for OTP (Off the Peg) under 500.

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread2287-3.html#post319311

Or buy a suitable frame & bits off ebay, build yourself and consult Mr. Sheldon (RIP) as to how

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed-conversion.html

Or contact these guys (PM Jos) to build a bike up for you (fellow Forumengers)

http://www.tourdevillelondon.blogspot.com/

hello,

just a quick intro. i ride a standard steamroller and a tricross single, (not at the same time). i am in salisbury and thought some of you may be interested to know that stonehenge is still there, no stonehenge cycles are selling built up giant omnius with miche bits and mavic wheels for £599. all the best grotley

... i want to have a fixed gear bike no to impress anybody just to challenge myself

This is a commendable motivation. May I suggest that you look out for any runs into the Kent or Surrey countryside organised on here and when you are assured that the ride is relatively flat and will be at a gentle pace and suitable for fixed wheels, go along. You can be sure that the average speed will challenge even the geared riders and the hills will make you want to vomit, both going up and coming down. If you are more sensible that me you will, of course, realise that riding to a hill climb will involve climbing a few hills. English roads do not by-pass hills but go up them. You will at least be prepared to be challenged. If you can keep up and not surrender to the allure of a homeward train, you will also impress others but most of all yourself.

i think that is great challenge and i know english roads very well, used get to work everyday (before i have moved closer) in 25 minutes riding uphill and back from there only 15... even then never changed a gear (always thought i am stupid not doing that but since i know people ride without gears at all, i don`t think i am that stupid after all) thanks for your thoughts cliveo...

Riding without gears makes climbing more interesting; riding fixed makes descending fascinating. The lack of a freewheel and the respite that it offers on descents is as much of a challenge as pushing up the hills.

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Thanks for that valuable contribution...
:-(

hehe!!

Someone potatochop it so it says "Cock". Pleeease? :)

Miss-spelt? only time will tell ;)

Someone potatochop it so it says "Cock". Pleeease? :)

Changing G to a B would be easier, which was where I was coming from. But if you have to explain it, means total joke failure on my part :(

How about 'Wrong'?

hello,

just a quick intro. i ride a standard steamroller and a tricross single, (not at the same time). i am in salisbury and thought some of you may be interested to know that stonehenge is still there, no stonehenge cycles are selling built up giant omnius with miche bits and mavic wheels for £599. all the best grotley

welcome aboard Grotley... not sure many west country folk are on here mind.... but i'm betting if you have a garden to pitch a tent and copious amounts of booze they'll be plenty of folk who'd ride down!

Thats not me though.... i'm just lazy, and fat, like hippy

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Joey gets a ....

:P

welcome aboard Grotley... not sure many west country folk are on here mind.... but i'm betting if you have a garden to pitch a tent and copious amounts of booze they'll be plenty of folk who'd ride down!
Thats not me though.... i'm just lazy, and fat, like hippy

But I'd ride there for the booze.. I'm specific in my laziness :)

In fact.. get some rep up ya!

Nice one teenybopperslain. You've unkicked yourself in the balls for that.. :)

In fact.. get some rep up ya!

oooooh.... no-one ever reps me, GIVE ME MORE!!! :)

nope

beeeeeeeatch

I am interested have you got decals for it?

and how cool is this "hill-climb" special

The hill climber is a splendid beast!
I'm hoping when the paint comes off my frame will have the same chrome lugs as the second one on the page... I haven't got decals yet but I do have a number for Mr Spooner that the people who boght his old shop gave me, they were pretty sure he'd have some.
Otherwise I may well remake them, get rub downs made and lacquer over them?

oooooh.... no-one ever reps me, GIVE ME MORE!!! :)

Stop wasting your time working and get posting then. ;-)

Can't rep you. "Computer says No!"
So can just give you a hearty thanks instead.
Thanks!

Hello all,

Been riding bikes for about 27 of my 27 years in one way or another. Riding fixed for about 3 years although i'm only recently interested in the build side of things.

I'm a producer from Sunderland living in Hackney and working in fucking Shoreditch.

I have already been abused and/or upset people on here. I'm sorry, I'm abrasive.

Hello one and all!