Welcome

hello, im new. from the midlands and ride a bianchi fixed gear.

hi nyquil, wherabouts in the midlands are you from? I am from Worcester originally.

hi mate. im from stourbridge, lived in hagley for the past 8 years and moved to birmingham last year

Commiserations.

nyquil, you ever knock about with Sudafed?

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stop the hatin'

YouTube- "Stop Hatin' on Me" by Jerry & The Champions

Hi All, my name is Chris, not hard to guess, im keen fixed gear riding, i'm fairly new to the cycling world since i started workin in Evans a year ago, since then i've had to fixies, the first ever volume cutter in England and some peugeot, currently tryna get something new to mess around with. My bike range? well, lets see, i got a few bikes, i got my fixie, cannondale taurine, GT zaskar, Pinarello suprise, FItbike BMx and Pinnacle jump bike..Nice to meet Y'all!

Hello Chris. All new members are required to post to this thread please: http://www.lfgss.com/thread41452.html

Thanks.

repped!!!

fuck - need to spread the love before i give it to you again!

Get in that thread and give it to me.

hello all

been lurking for parts for a while after last bike got stolen but now managed to afford new bike, just a fuji track but not too shabby at all, live old street way hopefully make it to east beers sometime when not so poor! cheers!

Howdy y'all...Another newbie here....i'm from N.I but been living out outside of the UK for 10 years( US,NZ,OZ Asia) but am just about to move to London in about 3 weeks .
Just had to sell all of my bikes when i left aussie so am currently bikeless but that will have to change very soon,trying to figure out my priorities when i get to London...find somewhere to live or get bike...

Hi, I joined a couple of minutes ago. I'm from Johannesburg South Africa. I was at the very first South African Fixie meet, which happened in Cape Town last year September. I am an old school BMXer, but also ride road bikes. I am quite fascinated with the fixie movement. Anything with wheels and pedals are fun to restore and ride.

hi hi, just signed!

Hey All I have posted a few times on here already Mainly in the B'ham section. Been cycling seriosly now for 2 years. Mainly MTB. Been riding a rigid SS MTB for a year now as well as commuting on a fixie. So if you are in B'ham and hear an american voice on a fixie say Howdy to me. Laters all

Howdy y'all...Another newbie here....i'm from N.I but been living out outside of the UK for 10 years( US,NZ,OZ Asia) but am just about to move to London in about 3 weeks .
Just had to sell all of my bikes when i left aussie so am currently bikeless but that will have to change very soon,trying to figure out my priorities when i get to London...find somewhere to live or get bike...

Hi, I joined a couple of minutes ago. I'm from Johannesburg South Africa. I was at the very first South African Fixie meet, which happened in Cape Town last year September. I am an old school BMXer, but also ride road bikes. I am quite fascinated with the fixie movement. Anything with wheels and pedals are fun to restore and ride.

hi hi, just signed!

Hey All I have posted a few times on here already Mainly in the B'ham section. Been cycling seriosly now for 2 years. Mainly MTB. Been riding a rigid SS MTB for a year now as well as commuting on a fixie. So if you are in B'ham and hear an american voice on a fixie say Howdy to me. Laters all

Hi, I joined a couple of minutes ago. I'm from Johannesburg South Africa. I was at the very first South African Fixie meet, which happened in Cape Town last year September. I am an old school BMXer, but also ride road bikes. I am quite fascinated with the fixie movement. Anything with wheels and pedals are fun to restore and ride.

where in Jozi you from kuwasakid? you travelled to ct for a fixed meet and youre from the city of gold? Thats serious dedication!

Hi, I'm Andrew.

I moved back to the UK last year after 15 years or so in Auckland (where riding a bike appeared either for men with legs of titanium or a penchant for bright lyrca and blue tounges). I'm currently right at the arse end of Streatham, by Norbury.

After a months of research and umming and ahhing, I decided to go the hybrid route and picked up a Globe San Fran 1 new for a song. Not riding a bike for 10 years or so to a single cog in London traffic seemed a 'challenge' but has proved fun - if somewhat prone to overdosing and resulting heavy protest from leg muscles.

Great sense of humour on here so I'm sure I'll be in good company. Thanks for the great read on the CTC training, will definitely get amongst that.

Toot toot.

Hi I love fixed gear and I love this forum

hi

I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself. I've had a look around this forum a bit and there seems to be some good stuff here.

I first tried cycling round london about ten years ago. I went to the local bike shop wher i'd got my last bike at the age of 12. Twelve minutes and £110 later I walked out with a yellow mountain bike that seemsed to fit my needs i.e. it was cheap and would get me around without attracting attention and getting stolen (how I can have been so stupid took me years to get that kind of self insight). About 20 minutes later I was half way to notting hill when a nail went straight through the front tyre. bad luck i thought to myself and walked the rest of the way to my friend stopping on all saints road to get the thing fixed. the guy in the shop was like why on earth would you buy a bike like this? For the same money you could get something decent second hand.

So....8 years later when I next wanted to start riding I took his advice. I knew nothing but had an idea that i didnt want to ride the tube every morning. I went to brick lane and got myself a second hand brand name mountain bike for about £80. It took me half an hour to realise that the back tyre had a huge hole in it so i took it to a shop in camden and got "puncture resistant" tyre - remembering that the nice man in all saints road had sold me one. I was happy enough on that bike even if i did suspect that it was stolen. .... And then it got stolen.... and i didnt ride again for a while

I made a couple of further attempts when i bought a bike off a guy at work for £100 and another when i got an old raleigh 3-gear girls bike for £25 that i thought would never get stolen... but it did. By now i'd lost my office job and thought i'd try doing a bit of courier work while i thought what i wanted to do with my life. I went into the local bike shop on kingsland road to get my girl's bike a new chain (some nice person stole the chain off an old 3-speed - it was quite comic when i tried to peddle and, cartoon-like, my legs spun but nothing happened). I came out with a yellow falcon single speed conversion for £95. I guess it's from the 70's or 80's. It's a great bike but when a friend offered me an entry level road bike for £100 i took it. As a courier i liked having 2 bikes and the gears did help.

The story ends with my road bike getting stolen, save the front weel, a shimano R500, that i've put on the yellow falcon. So now I'm deciding what to do.

Either i could get a new (second hand) road bike and keep the singlespeed as a second bike. Or i could upgrade the back wheel of the falcon in which case have to decide if i want single speed or fixed gear. I am on a pretty low budget but can spend monney if necessary and good value. I also have plenty time to put work into a project.

I'm aware that this post is getting a bit long so i'll stop soon. First question is this. I live on a hill (parliament hill) and the road up (tanza) is very steep, quite possibly the steepest in london. I can ride up it in 1st gear on a geared bike but not on my singlespeed. going down I take advantage of the freehub. similarly when i come down tufnell park road to the holloway road i often don't pedal at the top. If i got a fixes gear would this be a big isssue or would i get used to it in a day or two. Equally I do find it annoying tat I can't stop the bike without using the brake. That extra control seems to be the big advantage to a fixed hub. Are there other advantages? Do you feel more connnection to the bike?

Finally if i am going to build a fixie do you think my 30 year old bannana flacon racer 10 speed is a good frame to use or should i try to pick something else up either for free or very cheaply?

dan

evening all. just got my bike nicked and joining the forum to plunder the classifieds for bits and bobs. hope that's forgivable. hopefully i'll stay for a chat too

Hi everybody. Hopefully I'm not in the nursery now!

Hi, I am Paul I live in Essex but work in London. Been riding road bikes for nearly 25 years on and off and have now decided to try going singlespeed and I must say I am enjoying it so far in leafy Essex. Looking forward to some sound advice and lively banter.

Finally if i am going to build a fixie do you think my 30 year old bannana flacon racer 10 speed is a good frame to use or should i try to pick something else up either for free or very cheaply?
I have the same frame and had no issues converting it. If the hill is too steep you could always go for a lower gear, or just walk up...

Hi! im Daniel from Sweden, been doing freeride and downhill in my younger days, newly interested in SS/Fixed and general bike mechanics.