Welcome

Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I may well come along for drinks if I'm not too terrified haha.

Thats the one yes, just hold your nose when you pass the processed food factories of Park Royal and its a good ride!

Im not holding my nose when going past the biscuit one!
Probably a silly question, but is the route safe at nights? For when I come back from drinks etc?

Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I may well come along for drinks if I'm not too terrified haha.

Awww, most of those people don't bike (see what I did there :P) you'll be in safe hands... I think :P

Hi everybody, I'm new here. I am hoping to build a flip-flop free/fixed bike these summer holidays. I will probs post later, asking for advice on stuff.

Just out of interest, has anybody here build a flip-flop bike from scratch for under £200? I ask that because I am still at school and I don't have much to spend.

Im not holding my nose when going past the biscuit one!
Probably a silly question, but is the route safe at nights? For when I come back from drinks etc?

Good question, and no don't do it on your own at night.

Good question, and no don't do it on your own at night.

Okay, thank you :D Edscoble said he would take me on this route, so will test it. Thanks again!

Hi everybody, I'm new here. I am hoping to build a flip-flop free/fixed bike these summer holidays. I will probs post later, asking for advice on stuff.

Just out of interest, has anybody here build a flip-flop bike from scratch for under £200? I ask that because I am still at school and I don't have much to spend.

That's doable if you aren't in a rush. Buy an old road bike with horizontal drop outs off ebay (£50-100) an put a new rear wheel (£50-100) in. Bingo.

For the wheel you'll want to look into a Formula/Zenith/SJS Cycles hubs (all the same, just different lables) and a Mavic CXP22 or Rigida DP18.

its that cat a sphinx?

I'd rather not be introducing myself on a hello thread but i'll have a go.Bought my first fixie the other day thanks to the help of my friend toby.Hes on this site somewhere but as of yet i haven't found him/attempted to look for him,picked up a nice bike from the forum that was quietly hidden away in the backstreets of oxford circus with no brakes.then thought it would be a smart idea to ride it to new cross.I'm not saying it was smart but it was entertaining none the less and i'm still in one piece.I'm a uni student in brighton and we're hoping to get a few polo games going there so if anyones around it would be great to get in touch and sort some out.

I'd rather not be introducing myself on a hello thread but i'll have a go.Bought my first fixie the other day thanks to the help of my friend toby.Hes on this site somewhere but as of yet i haven't found him/attempted to look for him,picked up a nice bike from the forum that was quietly hidden away in the backstreets of oxford circus with no brakes.then thought it would be a smart idea to ride it to new cross.I'm not saying it was smart but it was entertaining none the less and i'm still in one piece.I'm a uni student in brighton and we're hoping to get a few polo games going there so if anyones around it would be great to get in touch and sort some out.

I hope you werent implying when talking about the bike being hidden away in the backstreets, meant you stole it or something :/

Anyway, welcome, there's a Brighton subsection here http://www.londonfgss.com/forum21.html

ah no,just the little bike shop was hidden away down some back road,i'm going to try a track down the thread on the forum where the person was selling it and thank them etc etc. Cheers for the link to the Brighton section

Hi all,

New to this place, I'm from a small part of Northern London called Yorkshire.... Ahem,

Either way, this seems to be a good place for info so I apologise for my geographically challenged nature....

Hi all, just joined. My ss/fixed bikes and projects: 1939 Carlton Flyer (seehttp://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/bikes/neil-carlton-rb.html for pics), 1949 Waller Kingsbury, 1951 R O Harrison Madison (similar to http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/roharrisontrack.html but mine was built to take mudguards and brakes) and 1938 Carpenter. Also some bikes fixed/free, like my 1939 R O Harrison Super Circuit. (http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/bikes/harrison-super-circuit-rb.html). Live on the South Dorset Downs, where it's very lumpy...

Hello everyone. I'm also kinda new to all this. I joined the forum a while ago, but this is my first post.
I have been riding fixed since the beginning of the year, and I'm in love with it. Commuting every day on my Steamroller is a joy. Anyway, hopefully I'll get a chance to grab a drink and talk bikes with some of you. Cheers.

Hi all,

New to this place, I'm from a small part of Northern London called Yorkshire.... Ahem,

Either way, this seems to be a good place for info so I apologise for my geographically challenged nature....

Haha, Ben, don't worry, there's a quite a few people who aren't in London! But welcome, and hope you find that peugeot bike you're after, keep checking the classified and sales, also the ebay thread http://www.londonfgss.com/thread6-334.html

Glad you joined though! Enjoy :D[U][/U]

Hey! I'm another newbie. I moved to London a month ago from Brighton and I am in dire need of a nice single speed. I'm pretty small (5'4/5'5) and I have a limited budget but if anyone wants to help me out, or would be into helping me build something that won't cost the earth to begin with I'd be incredibly grateful. This is me and my (i.e my housemates) cat:

Hey, I feel your pains of a tight budget. I'm not sure what route to go down for my next bike, and I'm not too sure of the benefits of a single speed. Hopefully shall get something sorted pretty soonish anyway, so fingers crossed.

And Lil, it seems eBay is crowded with Peugeots but they are all in Essex!

And Lil, it seems eBay is crowded with Peugeots but they are all in Essex!

Mine's from Bristol, what's your excuse? :P

Mine's from Bristol, what's your excuse? :P

Err, that I'm a lazy fuck? :D

Mine's from Bristol, what's your excuse? :P

When you live in Kingsbury..? That seems an "unusual" place to purchase from. ;-)

BTW, as I never said a proper hello when I joined... Hello, I'm Tim. Live in Greenwich with Princess_Pashley, we ride sometimes but we have too much other crap going on to make it a serious hobby. It's a means of transport for us, which happens to be good exercise and great fun. So when it all starts to get too serious, we start to head for the pub. ;-)

Her ladyship has (as her name suggests) a Pashley Princess. It's not fixed, or single speed though, but I'm trying to work on her. I had an old Raleigh racer running single (but at stupidly high gear-inches) which died recently, so I bought a Charge Plug to replace it, which is chewing the streets up right now and in due course, I'll start building up a project-bike, to learn more about the mechanics of cycling.

You'll see me at beers when I can make it. All friendly faces welcome to come and chat.

Err, that I'm a lazy fuck? :D

When you live in Kingsbury..? That seems an "unusual" place to purchase from. ;-)

Bristol to NW London £18 for shipping :p

And Hello Tim!

1... How the HELL do you stop the f***G thing !!! ... you fixie guys are totally insane !!!!!

On the top at the front is the bent-around bit that waggles from side to side. That's attached to the front one of the round spinny things. Well on the bent-around bit, there's a sticky-out looking thing on the middle part of that. Two of them in fact, one on each side. And if you squeeze one or both of them together, then it makes the bike do a sort of slowy-down kind of thing. I'm not sure if that's what you're supposed to do, but it seems to be working for me at the moment.

;-)

Not a thread Hijack, more of an invitation, for the new bods and a chance to introduce yourself to the forum in an easily accessible way.

Bright Times BBQ, This Sunday 19th July

So put your names down,
https://www.londonfgss.com/thread23385.html
get that meat a marinating, and bring a sunny disposition with you, and take your chance to wow everyone with your powers in the kitchen.
Enjoy the Bright Times BBQ, we've got a late licence, and the gorgeous companionship of your fellow forumengers...

And that includes all you lurkers, non posters, and noobs...

If you weren't there last time you missed out on a great, drunken, bright times filled event.
Check out this thread, for the full 531ness of it
https://www.londonfgss.com/thread9010-6.html

New members compass beer rides on this week. Any newbies who'd like to ride out to East beers, or any other (Norths, Wests, South easts etc) for that matter post up your interest in the thread via link below:
http://www.londonfgss.com/post814740-864.html
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread15291-18.html

As stated on the other thread I can meet peeps tomorrow for a ride into Easts. If you can't make it to the centre of town that's fine, just head down to the pub. Usually gets goin about 8-8.30pm.

This is a great way to meet other forumengers and get actively involved in something on a regular basis instead of being behind a screen all the time.

We have a TT every week at Easts - 1.4km circuit, start/finish line outside pub. Great fun, run what yer brung. Participation at your own discretion.

its that cat a sphinx?

Nah, siamese. Utterly adorable but a complete nightmare at times.

Hi just joined, looks like lots of people are into fixed gear

Lies, fixed is shit, geared tandem freestyle ftw.