Spotted in Manchester...

gm half cabs stinking exenger shoes??? i might have to go back on the road for that insult...

bikehaus - byob...

saw about 20 fixed gears out today, I'm guessing the students must be back, all sorts of nice looking rides. Or everyone out for what could be the last nice day of summer

yeah I saw loads of people on my ride home - no nods hello though... shocking.

Fucking shout at people, that's what I do.

'OI FUCKING FIXIE-PRICKS COME TO POLO OR SOME SHIT'
'OI DO A SKIDDER- WE CHAT SHIT ONLINE'

You get the idea.

'oi come round mine for a beer'

oh wait a minute... wrong person...

yesterday on a bltz through nq - white guy with a skidlid on a nice looking white ride

sorry if we appeared frosty, but thanks for the nod ;)

deleted random drunken comment about pigs on fixies

sorry

im sad because ive recently realised charge have made a black plug with brown seat and tape that looks very much like my old peugeot conversion, who have obviously copied mine.

must nod more at people, but i do smile often.

@ slowcoach: kath kitson your frenchie!

http://newport-osaka.jugem.jp/

my that would make it stand out! not sure it goes with a beard though :)

PS are top tube covers just to protect the paint or what? i never understood them...

Nah, old tour videos arn't my thing.

what??? not even watching Bernard Hinault look at people with contempt as he flies by them??

protect the paint, your boys if you skid like tlw, or for just a little flair

i was thinking of getting max at tfg to hook me up a polka dot one and grow my beard back!

You should DEFINITELY grow a beard nasty. Definitely.

I'd like one of those five-gold top tube protectors, but I don't need one and they are fucking dollar!

I also saw these two, one fixed up by Font on Oxford road, one pitiful single speed with only a front brake locked badly by Sandbar. Sorry about the shite phone pictures.

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already been there...

time to grow one again for the winter...

dangeruss and tall paul have a good head start on me tho'

the kashimax tube protector's are a nice addition if youre constantly dropping the bike... pricey - yes, jelly - totally

i'm surprised px never knocked them out cheap - they've got a case full of them...

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I think I confused some guy in a wooly hat going down Talbot Rd in Old Trafford on a nice looking white ride on Tuesday by nodding at him. Although to be fair I was making like Haile Gebrselassie, but without the finesse, or fitness.

surely knocking uop one of those toptube protectors isnt hard to do yourself?

I've got a protector (as in a small one like a kashimax - not those cushion material ones) that I made with a bit of innertube, a sewing machine and some elastic - stops my bulls denting the fuji so does the job!

this morning i was riding down oxford road and a bus came up right behind me and started beeping at me, when he stopped i asked him what the problem was and he said "when a bus is behind you, get peddling!" stupid fucker litrally fuck off it wouldnt kill him to wait 10 seconds untill he can over take, am angry again now should have done something

bus driver humour. he obviously saw you were riding fixed.

Obviously knocking one up isn't hard, just wrap and inner tube around your frame, but that's neither overly expensive or recognized as such. This is what I'm going for...

edit: Ste - report the fucker. Either that or Bikehaüs lynchmob in full effect.

Had a similar issue on Lower Moseley Street last week. Bus driver blasted his horn forcing me into the left hand lane when I wanted to turn right by Deansgate Locks, then parks over the cycle box to ps me off and thought it was very big and clever to mouth fk off at me when I questioned his motives. The worst part as you say is that you get angry at yourself for not doing anything about it. Have done previously in Bolton but it was more aggravation than it was worth. Did get an apology though.

a bus driver once opened his doors and threw handfuls of coppers at my friend...for no real reason either..

Bit of a theme here. Maybe it's the paying monkeys peanuts scenario. Clearly not the brightest of employees are they.

"Obviously knocking one up isn't hard, just wrap and inner tube around your frame, but that's neither overly expensive or recognized as such. This is what I'm going for..."

applying the same methodology as when you knock one out morgan?

bus driver humour. he obviously saw you were riding fixed.

ahh was freewheeling actually!