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Hello
New french guy moving to London with my bicycle. Hope to ride with you soon

Just joined LFGSS and thought I should say hello and introduce myself. I'm not strictly from London but worked on Baker Street for 8 years as a designer. Commuted everyday on my Cannondale Badboy (sorry it's wasn't a SS or a fixie) from West Hampstead - best view of London is from a bike seat :)

I've just bought a 2012 Specialized Langster off a friend. It's practically brand-new! He covered less that 10 miles on it. It's pretty standard spec apart from the addition of some Bullhorn bars, white handlebar wrap, Cane Creek Crosstop front brake and a 45 tooth BIG ring. I'll post piccies of it as soon as I have my mitts on it.

I'm thinking about flipping the rear wheel and fitting a freewheel. My question is what tooth freewheel should I be looking at fitting to match the 45 ring? I'm hoping to use the Langster to get my fitness back and lose some weight (I know it's in there somewhere!)

Thanks in advance and drinks are on me

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Gearing is a personal thing that'll depend on your riding style, your fitness level, and where you ride. I'd say try riding it fixed and see how the gearing suits. Its probably cheaper to swap out fixed cogs to experiment than freewheels. Also beware of some of the cheaper freewheels like dicta that have no way to remove them.

yo snottyotter,, well keen on polo,, where & when??

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See you tomorrow :)

Nice, sign up to our forum too if you can get past the spam net, if you have trouble let me know and I'll get our mod to let you past. Don't forget beer.

Gearing is a personal thing that'll depend on your riding style, your fitness level, and where you ride. I'd say try riding it fixed and see how the gearing suits. Its probably cheaper to swap out fixed cogs to experiment than freewheels. Also beware of some of the cheaper freewheels like dicta that have no way to remove them.

Thanks for the heads up on the likes of Dicta freewheels Dtroll. Once I've got the Langster I'll have a play on it as a fixie and see how it feels. Got a mate who runs a bike shop so hopefully he'll sort me out with a little cheeky discount :)

Nice, sign up to our forum too if you can get past the spam net, if you have trouble let me know and I'll get our mod to let you past. Don't forget beer.

Beer, Bourbon, Ale, Gin....choose your poison :)

I spend way too much time on the UK KTM forum than my better half is happy with....looking forward to getting to know the LFGSS forum members too. I work as a freelance designer in London at least once a month. I'll try and bring my bike with me if I get a couple of days and get the proper drinkies in :)

Hi, everyone enjoy the Roubaix?

welcome everyone

Hey, I'm Antoine and i'm 25 years old.
I'm french, but i will live in London for 4 month, may to august.
I ride on an Eddy merckx extra corsa 90th.

I'm looking for a roommate and if it's possible a job ...

Antoine

Hi,

I'm Stéphane (also named by my nickname Keiway or Kiwi), french from Paris, mechanical designer for my job, i like to read/look things about messenger jobs, that why i started FG in 2009. Member of the french forum pignonfixe.com, where i find the link of LFGSS and decided to suscribe for discover FG's community in other country (starting by london is a pretty good start)

I ride a FG for 4 years now, i started with a Spécialized Langster Polish, and rescently a friend gave me a frame of a S-works, which i ride these days.

I rode a lot in paris' streets and around and i start to need to discover new city with my bike, that why i come on this forum to gather information for prepare a trip in london and visit the good place of this city and if possible, doing a night ride with you guys

see you soon

Hello everyone!

Just signed on to this forum. I am a 26year old student from holland who rides to the university everyday on a koga gentsracer or on a conversion fixed Raleigh. Really nice forum this is, here in holland there isn't really a good fixed gear forum.
I am looking for a new bike, large one, 63cm for a new project. Looking to replace my Raleigh fixed with a better stiffer frame!

cheers Max

Hi, I'm Adrian and been lurking for a bit and decided to join after getting my first fixie. I'm used to singlespeeds as my last few mountain bikes have been set up that way but I just sold my last one and decided to replace it with a road going fixie. So I bought a Charge Plug from eBay that had been really well cared for and have been having a go and love it. Also a BIG thank you to the posts on this forum warning of the cheaper OTP horrors that lurk out there in eBay land - you saved me from making an uninformed purchase! Having been a member of the STW forum for quite a time I know the importance of the search function so I hope I won't be bothering you all with questions that have been asked a thousand times already.
Oh, and I'm based near Horsham in West Sussex.

Hi All, London resident, and ride a freshly resprayed 753 single speed - who's structural integrity may be called into question. Looking forward to long summer rides.
See you out there on the road.

Hello!

Hi, I'm Eduardo
I'm from Portugal and i'm doing Edinburgh- London this Summer.
I'm just looking for some information about routs and places not to miss

Forgot to tell,
I ride an MTB single speed Berg.

Hi everyone, I'm enjoying my first day in nursery!

Likewise. Hello all!

hello
Kurt from Australia love bike porn lfgss has lots of it and ive just bought a 1949 gillott fixed which i will lovingly restore... not sure how to go about it????? also ride a spot rocker 29er and commute on a focus hybrid

Hi,
Paul from London : )

stolen! fucking stolen. condor 531c frame 56cm. it looks alot more ratty than this..... touring wheels and mudguards. i want it back!

Hello all, new on here and new to the fixed/SS scene. I have just had my 753 frame chain stays replaced and a new paint job just looking now for a nice light SS/flip flop wheelset. Great site reading great posts with interest.

Hi! Im Clara, from Ireland and currently building my Cinelli mash :-) Otherwise i mainly ride mtb and was a cycle courier in Cardiff until i got a 'proper job' but miss it loads. In London quite a bit every now and again so thought i'd say hey and get these three posts out of the way!