Welsh riders?

Are there any Welsh riders on here? There are 6 of us in Swansea that ride regularly and two others spotted. As far as I know there doesn't seem to be any kind of scene in Cardiff, as for the rest of Wales I haven't got a clue!

I've knocked up a blog and I want other Welsh riders to post to it too! http://www.fixedgearwales.co.uk

roon

I reckon 'Pearson Guy' is Welsh. He's faster than everyone else in west London.

i ride fixie in cardiff.. doesn;t seem to be a big bike scene here as you said... oh well

if you fancy coming down to swansea for a ride sometime drop me a line through the blog. you might even get to see my "one backwards circle" or hear me saying "why the fu€k can't i do wheelies?" every 2 minutes :-p

every couple of weeks we do "the six pack tour" where everyone buys a six pack then you drink one drink per spot. its always a good laugh...

I'm in Barmouth/Llanbedr/Trawsfynydd every few months. waves from the North

NB - do not try to do Barmouth->Traws in the dark with a rucksack full of a week's walking kit on 48x15. It hurts.

there should at least be relatively big scenes in swansea, cardiff and newport. us swansea lot are all skaters and a skaters girlfriend which i think is pretty normal for fixie riders worldwide but there are huge skate scenes in cardiff and newport but nobody else riding, it's weird.

Swansea's got a pretty vast student population for the size of the town IIRC - gatecrash the freshers' fair and set up a guerilla LFGSS (Cymru) stand :-)

there is a plan to hit the uni bike stands with a double sided flyer for the critical mass and fixed gear wales. the downside to that is having to put up with loads of bloody students on the mass every month though :-p

I'm in Barmouth/Llanbedr/Trawsfynydd every few months. waves from the North

ha! Im from Blaenau Ffestiniog originally and now my family live in Barmouth !!

nice one.

Heh. My dad was born in Barmouth - his father's family are from Llanbedr and his mother's tribe spread down the coast (railway bods). Ardudwy posse let me hear you!

(I was born and brung up in Cambridge, sadly).

I've been lurking the forum for a while, hello. I just moved to Cardiff from Glasgow a couple of months ago and started riding fixed down here. I've noticed quite a few fixed/single speed riders about the city.

every couple of weeks we do "the six pack tour" where everyone buys a six pack then you drink one drink per spot. its always a good laugh...

I like this idea a lot.

I've been lurking the forum for a while, hello. I just moved to Cardiff from Glasgow a couple of months ago and started riding fixed down here. I've noticed quite a few fixed/single speed riders about the city.

Thats cool, join the facebook group if you are on there: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54164423764

I'm in Swansea. Won't be back out on the bike for a week or so (got myself fixed so can't ride for a bit), but if you see someone on a black steamroller that's me.

awesome, then you can join our gang :-p i hope you can teach me how to do wheelies, haha

I'm still trying to get backwards circles going sorry. Just seen on your site there's a Critical Mass in Swansea. Do many people ride it?

There are usually about 10-15, early days yet but i've been doing some advertising so hopefully more this time. you should come along, its this friday.

And if you need any help with the backwards circles check out my instructional video: YouTube - Backwards Circles with Roon

Don't know if I'll be back riding by Friday, but if I am I'll try and make it. You shot that video near my work - do you ride a lot round here?

Yeah, we always ride down there, the floor is nice and slippy for messing about on. Thats nearly always the first stop on a ride. Where do you work?

I work in Technium 1.

Very flash ;-)

I think there's someone who rides fixed in the J Shed building as well - one of your lot?

Nah, thats where the sixsixone/royal clothing dudes are based. I don't think any of them ride fixed, I shoot the photos for their catalogue and as far as I know they only like things with suspension on!

I'm from Cardiff and my fixie should be arriving by the weekend, I know one other person who rides as well.

Isn't there a meet in Swansea on the last saturday of every month.