Spotted...

Did this dude have massive tied back hair. I see that guy EVERYWHERE around east.

I think thats Effri who survived going under a truck last April, story is over on MT.

My first ever spotted post, coo...

wiganwill, yesterday at lights on Charing Cross Road, looking a little cheesed off and, well, working.
)

That sounds like me.
I later spotted a post box.

a big bike pile outside the prince regent in herne hill. anyone know what was going on?

ROLLAPALUZA!..... you should have stopped in.

Polish? messenger with blond dreads always on brakeless lo-pros round the west end. seen on a Colnago, and today on red and white bike with POLSKA on top tube. Nice collection.

rats! twas only round the corner from me as well.

Guy bopping into Stables Market in Camden, red/yellow two tone metallic paintjob with two HED 3s, fucking sweet looking bike.

Last night, 6.30pm, Old St heading east; Fella on a pretty red Colnago conversion, lovely... but... flat pedals, single-speed, no rear brake. DUUUUUUUDE!

JtothaDtothemuthafrickin'S-H.
just about making it thru the lights ootside the Foundry...9.25am
woulda caught ya up, but was wiv va lady. would have been frightfully rude
to leave her. specially cos she was lending me some ca$h for a crank set...

then 20 mins later !Nhattattack! rolling past the British Museum...Morning!

Object this morning on Hackney Road on polo bike

Black charge with powergrips at the bottom of kingsland road, trackstanding at the lights. Was hoping for a race as you sped away but after overtaking you, you didn't catch up again, even after some poker face slowing down to let you get near.

a guy on a white cinelli with white rear arrospok riding no-hands on City Road at Angel, about 7pm, looking like a pimp.

:)

that mikee my pimp

Spins, I think.
25/02 @ 1910ish

Black bike, turning left from Tavistock Sq into Tavistock place.
I gave you a tinkle on my bell but you were far too swift!

polo bike, front disc and polo mallet! silly boy! heading N on moorgate.

, and exchanged grins with a black courier-looking dude on a lovely red low-pro as he rolled around the bottom end of Brick Lane on sunday.

did he have lots of dreads and a curvy top tube? and white dep v's?

if so i've spotted him loads of times, but last week i followed him for about 5 minutes to get a good look at his bike, and realized it was a SS! which is odd because ive never noticed and brake levers on his handlebars

VeeVee on Tuesday night going down Kings Avenue, then 50:14 on Dulwich Road about 8 this morning. Must have been running *very *late for last night's rollers :op

Object this morning on Hackney Road on polo bike
Really, where about's were you?

Sorry, had my headphones in.

2 spots, both having very similar bikes, white with a section on the top and down tube (not sure about the seat tube) in purple. One with a TT pad, the other without. Both single speeds (i think not 100%). One was on eversholt st about 20 mins ago, the other on Highgate road.

Also i think i saw Mr lemon on Kentish town Road. If you have a yellow and black rear wheel and yellow on yer handlebars Mr lemon, i be a spottin you.

Really, where about's were you?

Sorry, had my headphones in.

No worries, I didn't call out or anything. I was gonna chase after you and say hi but my front brake cable slipped through the caliper when i pulled the lever (it keeps doing that - time for a new brake cable I think) towards the top of Temple Street. Next time!

Slowly but surely I'm getting to know more and more of those on the forum which is a spiffing thing. Apart from "Oi", "wheel-jockey" "hipster" etc., what is the etiquette on spotting a fellow forum member?

Much like the masons, of which I'm also a member*, I think there should be a word that alerts other riders that you are a forum member and not a mentalist.

my suggestions: 1) VBoy (in honour of someone who used to be on the forum); 2)The name of one of those who may have been lost on the road - this way their name lives on and for people who never knew them; or 3) [a better suggestion than mine]

Don't worry, this isn't an aim to start "Kling-on" or anything exclusive, but it is quite obvious that a number of those spotted don't even notice the "spot".

*If you are a mason reading this, I'm from *a different *lodge than you.

Courier outside my flat down Boundary Street on a nice lime green job with blue vdeep.

I think there should be a word that alerts other riders that you are a forum member and not a mentalist.

It used to be 'do a skid'.

I think we are past the arrospok fiddy dorra thing now - or do people still shout that?

The last time I was with someone that shouted 'Do a skid!' the cyclist in question rode back past us a few minutes later and threw a glass bottle at us...

...maybe he thought he was in Oz?

Guy with a 531 Gazelle road frame reading waiting for Brixton Cycles to open, getting ready to build it fixed, told him to join the forum.

The last time I was with someone that shouted 'Do a skid!' the cyclist in question rode back past us a few minutes later and threw a glass bottle at us...
...maybe he thought he was in Oz?

And then you shot him in the face.. you know, like we'd do in Oz.