Spotted in Birmingham...

You need to say please!

In Digbeth, say a guy wearing an orange jacket and a skateboard-style helmet (I was eating a sandwich). Shouted 'do a skid' but he just looked round and carried on.

Was he on a bike or a beastie boy?

Tang, I took a picture on my phone outside Sainsburys Moseley last Thursday. Did it have grey grips and all black tyres?

my bike got stolen today at about 3pm. it was locked up to the railings by the cathedral at the top of temple street. please contact me if you have any information or stick a lock on it if you spot it.
please keep an eye out for it at the sky ride !!!

spec:
identiti persona frame
velocity chukker rims
white forks
white gusset cranks
yellow pedals
and fat 38c tyres

Tang, I took a picture on my phone outside Sainsburys Moseley last Thursday. Did it have grey grips and all black tyres?

http://www.birminghamcyclist.com/photo/identiti-1

Thats totally the same bike.

Same chain, same bars/stem, same seat, same wheels, same pedals.

Too much of a coincidence. It looks like it was pinched by someone who actually wanted a fixed trick bike based on the fact they have put bmx cranks on it.

if it is the same one then all they've changed is the grips and tyres as far as I can tell.

Looks like these are Halo Couriers, which are specced with the bike so this could be all legitimate... assuming someone didn't steal it and put on tyres that seem to be the original ones...

Well spotted though LS, they aren't common at all.

http://www.identitibikes.com/identitibikes/products-details.php?id=5IT7FLH

Thats totally the same bike.

Same chain, same bars/stem, same seat, same wheels, same pedals.

Too much of a coincidence. It looks like it was pinched by someone who actually wanted a fixed trick bike based on the fact they have put bmx cranks on it.

That's what I thought initially but all that stuff is as specced on full bikes as supplied by Identiti as far as I can tell, it seems Tang changed the tyres on his, not Halo Couriers, and the other guy didn't, but did change the grips.

Unless Tang just bought a frame to build up and I'm wrong on some components, but it all looks rightish...

http://www.identitibikes.com/identitibikes/products-details.php?id=5IT7FLH

http://www.ison-distribution.com/ison/english/product.php?part=5ITPULK

the new 'owner' of the bike clearly doesn't value it much, either, considering he's locked it with a piece of string.

ATTN: IDIOTS! STOP USING CABLE LOCKs!

well there was that bike locked up in Moseley last year with a similar lock for about 6 months until the council took it away, but yeah... people = idiots = annoying as fuck

Guys the photo was taken BEFORE it was stolen.

ha, hmm...

yeah, shit lock anyway...

Ok for 2 minutes in Sainsburys if within view but not suitable for a good bike left in city centre. May as well use a ribbon with a gift card.

Hope you get it back Tang.

that was really exciting while it lasted, felt like some sort of detective*

*getting it all wrong but convinced I'm helping in some way

In Digbeth, say a guy wearing an orange jacket and a skateboard-style helmet (I was eating a sandwich). Shouted 'do a skid' but he just looked round and carried on.

Yo! that was me Mr Green! Many apologies, I knew you said something to me but the darn man that lives in my headphones doesn't let me hear a thing!

I must remember to spend time skidulizing for when you holler at me next!

Nice photo. Can I steal it thanks? Cool to ride with other people, even if it was just to rip the yellow bib brigade.

I saw some ginger dude in town, he smiled and said I had a nice bike. It was a bit too homoerotic for my liking.

Reminded me of that "fixy comic"

o the irony

pistaboy freewheeling past the anchor 30 seconds ago. didn't even come in to say hello. boohoo.

you also spotted, and touched up birmingham's worst dressed cyclist. i got called a leprechaun earlier.

Sorry Dan!!
I wanted to drop in. Need to get one of those rear lights to plug into my Joystick. Guess you guys might be able to order?
Was probably daydreaming as I came past the shop, I was listening to the new Arcade Fire album.

if you can wait a week, i'll try to put together an order to persuade stu when he gets back from holiday. won't be til 2nd week of october, though.

Legend. Cheers pal.

Spotted:

A lto of water falling from the sky.

I saw a wicked little ss converted kona lava dome locked near the cathedral, yellow and red with snowflake laced wheels. Looked badass

nelsons I think