Welcome

Rawr! Greetings. currently on the lookout for my first fixie 8>

Hello I'm Francis, I've finally become a member after finally moving to London..

I've been riding for a few years since discovering time trialing at university.

So, what actually prompted me joining today was that some sod stole my wheel - I know it's my fault and I always religiously lock everything to everything...except this one time... - and so I was hoping that someone one here could sort me out!

Will be posting in classifieds imminently!

Oh and by 'imminently' I of course mean in* ' 24 hours AND [having] posted 3 times in existing threads'*..

Ha!

Nut, your first post was good and well written, don't fail now by trying to negate the nursery by posting one word posts.

Sorry to hear about your wheel.

and here's my bike (with both wheels), which it seems was spotted my somebody outside Nottingham library and stuck on his blog apparently:

http://bicyclesafari.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/dave-quinn-fixed-gear-retro-dose.html

Thanks for the support, I wish I could remember what size cog I had on it too..

4th post now I'm in!! Only joking furious tiles.

Hi all, been in London three months and have discovered that cycling is the cheapest and best way to commute. getting bogged down with the temperamental gears on my current heavy weather bike, so i'm in the process of building up a nice light single speed beater from an old Reynolds 531 frame. this place has been invaluable so far!

heavy weather???

Hello all. Got my bike recently and am interested in commuting to work, riding after work, Beers, customizing, (a little) like minded people or not. One more post to go and I am out of the Nursery.

You dont need to worry about being in or out the nursery unless you are looking to PM or start threads.

Just go out there and post!

Ahh. Thank you.

Hi there, my name is Gareth from Belfast, recently bought a second hand Langster and am slowely working my way round it, figuring stuff out the hard way!

Hey my name is Brian :)
I've been riding bikes since I was a kid and recently just got bought a fixed gear bike, around a 2 weeks ago for £250.
I can say Im used to it now but still need to learn how to skid (i have front brakes on) :)

I live in LONDON, around lewisham/new cross (anyone near?)
fairly new into fixed gear, any ride outs?

anyways, this is my bike.
http://oi42.tinypic.com/1z36p2h.jpg

Hi everyone,
I'm Robin, relatively new to the word of fixed riding, having finished a conversion in January. It started of as an old (late80s?) raleigh equipe which was in a right state, pretty happy with how it turned out although I learned that I should not paint my own frames - covered in chips already! It also involved modifying the dropouts which was a ballache but worth it... I'm based in North Wales - don't know if there are many members up here?? Also spend a bit of time in edinburgh and SE London every now and then...

Looking forward to contributing

Welcome.

Shouldn't you be called monsieursucre? ;)

Wouldn't want to over-French it... Sacre bleu!

Wouldn't want to over-French it... Sacré bleu!

Fixé.

Hey,
I'm Patrick and have been riding street bmx for most of my life (I'm 18) and recently picked up a 1991 Dawes for £40 from a local charity shop, soon to be a fixed/singlespeed, but fancy a nice change and love getting around a lot quicker than on my bmx

Hi I'm Jack recently moved to Croydon and have built up an old Peugeot Reynolds cr-mo frame with a flip flop hub, riding free wheel at the minute hopefully give fixie a go when the weather picks up a bit

hey guys need some help bought a raleigh ti 531c it had a suntour superbe pro head set
but the previous owner wasn't very careful with it so the logos are almost gone and the top ring was mutilated what should just polish it or leave it ??'

hi all i have just bought a 1974 raleigh crespie ligged bike, now stripped and ready for p/c im going to flip flop it as im not brave enough to start out straight on a fixed. i commute on a 91 trek mountain bike but cant wait until the s/s is good to go.

Hi, I ride a Dolan Pre-Cursa. Super twitchy but fast on the track..

Hi,

Roadie in Edinburgh, latest project is a restored Tom Browich track frame, all painted in velvet purple / gold decals and ready for some nice parts..........

Parts / WIP
Gipiemme special track cranks (fully polished want to get re- hard annodised)
TA 107 BB - trying to confirm if ISO and work out how or if I can get it to a 42mm chainline?? (really need the holy grail 109 but not at the silly money they fetch)
Headset - Shimano 600 arabesque
Stem - Shimano 600 (as with cranks)
Seatpost - Campag or Ritchey pista
Saddle - Selle

Still to get
Nice set of hubs / wheels (prefer to build my own) - this is proving a nightmare!!
Chain
Period track ring -Gipiemme one on fleebay (Greece) but I'd need to sell the house first !!
Bars - up to 26mm - thinking 3TTT

Hi everyone,
I'm Robin, relatively new to the word of fixed riding, having finished a conversion in January. It started of as an old (late80s?) raleigh equipe which was in a right state, pretty happy with how it turned out although I learned that I should not paint my own frames - covered in chips already! It also involved modifying the dropouts which was a ballache but worth it... I'm based in North Wales - don't know if there are many members up here?? Also spend a bit of time in edinburgh and SE London every now and then...

Looking forward to contributing

Hi Robin,

I'm based in Edinburgh........if you ever need any bike related help up here drop me a PM and I'll try to help

Hi,

Been lurking around here for a while all the way from Dorset. thought it was about time to join in as I'm going to check out a Surley steamroller tomorrow in Charlie the Bikemongers. Payday, n+1 rule, good combo...