Spotted...

spanking new baby blue foffa on the bike racks at the office... slack chain.

^Don't knock it too much.
I was thinking the other day.... my bikes not even nice. Yet its one of the best out there in the ol bike racks. I am convinced that scientists/researchers have the shitest bikes in the world. I mean compared to where my flat mate works at an architecture firm - that place is like crack for addicts.

A guy with an Orange bobble hat on a Vigorelli (?) in Acton/Shepherds bush area.

Black dude who I always see going in the opposite direction to me on the road towards Kilburn, on a Boardman today, but often a red single speed.

Think that was it, was a slippery wreck today, I need to become a dedicated nodder/commuter!

I went past the lights and thought, "did somebody just shout my name.."

Ditto. You need to work on your projection, Sumo.

^ you have less excuse, me and mick both shouted your name at full volume.

Orange spok on a Mongoose - Moorgate most evenings.

Blue and Yellow spoks black frame - Old street this morning

Guy riding a blue fixed Condor on Railton road about 7:45 last from Brixton to Herne Hill - fucking hell you are QUICK!

Orange spok on a Mongoose - Moorgate most evenings.

Blue and Yellow spoks black frame - Old street this morning

Sounds like some grade A anti to me

A rare sighting of pascalo yesterday on Leman St., rolling through to Jamaica Road. I was hoping he might crawl out of the woodwork to post here, but no...

Organise a drinks thing so we can say goodbye!

I saw him on Lordship Lane on Saturday, it had escaped my recollection until now

nik earlier riding westbound along High Holborn. I saw you pass as I waited in Chancery Lane for the lights to change.

Colettuce in my office building about an hour ago. Cue several seconds of bafflement as one side of my brain shouted "BIKESLFGSSBIKESLFGSSBIKESLFGSS" while the other said "but wait maybe you recognise her because she is a client or, even worse, is actually one of your colleagues? you might make a tit of yourself by mentioning bikes now"

Thank god Colettuce has more presence of mind than I have and mentioned the bikes first. Hello!

Mick on clerkenwell rd. heading west.

I forgot, Mr lemon this morn just coming on to blackfriars bridge of death.

middleofnowhere Matt breezing up alongside me very easily. Good to see you this morning, chap. For someone who said that TNRC nearly broke you last night, you were still quick enough this morning!

man's *quick. *don't feel bad about it.

saw OSR this morning, he demanded a skid when i was already trackstanding. no fair.

**not spotted - **any traffic, roads were deserted today

went on day trip to London today (i'm from cheltenham/oxford). I've never seen so many fixed gear bikes in my life. (nice ones, and horrible ones, and wannabee cheap lookalike singlespeed ones). Saw alot of real (or fake) bike messengers around. London has a buzz nowhere else has.
what makes you guys love or hate London in general or cycling in it?

One of the things I love about cycling in London is the fact that there are so many of us and occasionally it feels like a proper community. Wearing an LFGSS cap will get you DAS'd and whenever I wear an LCEF cap I get a cheery smile or hello. Chatted with some bloke on Theobalds Road yesterday about how the LCEF had looked after him when he broke his wrist in 3 places last year, just because I was wearing an LCEF cap, and he said "he wanted to thank everyone he saw wearing one or supporting LCEF" and then 5 minutes later got a wave from Nhatt down the road.

We quite frequently moan about the number of nodders and fairweather types clogging up the roads in London but there are some upsides.

Are you a student in Cheltenham/Gloucester? I'll be back at Christmas to visit my parent who live in Gloucester and will no doubt go for a ride with my brother who lives in Cheltenham. Look out for a stickered up Charge Plug and a forum cap ; )

i go to college sixth form in cheltenham yeh. I'm always about so yeh i will. could not believe the fixed gear community in Central London. its crazy. i noticed all subtle bikes are the nicest. and noticed how many posers there are alongside the proper people. the only distinctive bikes/people i saw was a big black bloke messenger with a stereotypical beat up messenger bike with a bizare downwards sloping saddle angle. and a colagno, or something with a colagno sticker on headtube (possibly grey, drops no brakes) locked to a lamppost with another bike outside a coffee shop, a bike with gold deep V rims, a small black fuji with risers and a 3$7*load of create type bikes, with flip flop set on singlespeed. so many i can't remember.
I love bicycling and bikes so much.

Last night on jamaica street, DASed lfgss cap wearing dude with tatooed calves. Think you had earphones in.

This morning chap on silver bianchi trackstanding at the junction next to bank. Smooth

I went Brockley>OKR>Borough>City this morning just to make a change.
Just after the OKR veers right after the bus garage a chap in a blue BMW 5 series starts honking his horn.
I look round, to see that he has wound his window down, and is saying something whilst pointing to his head.
This being Londons famous London, and he being in a car and me being on a bike I assume he is having a pop- possibly about my helmetless head.
However I cannot hear him, so I sort of shrug and carry on.
He moves a bit closer and I finally hear that he is shouting "Hat! You dropped your hat!"
I shove my hand in my pocket and find no Rolla cap- and shout "Thanks!" at the chap and turn round, going back up the OKR scanning the road and pavement for the cap.
Finally I spot it quite a way back- under a bus in the middle of the road.
Continuing on until a gap in the traffic appears I turn again, to see an old boy on a sit-up and beg bike stopped, reaching down where my hat was.
I catch up to him just as he has finished putting my cap on- and cheerily say "Morning! Thanks for picking up my cap!"
He splutters something ending in mate and hands it over.
I cycle on with a big grin, this having been a nice little incident on an otherwise standard commute.
Then a woman in a silver golf almost takes me off as she changes lanes whilst sending a text- and normal service is resumed on Londons roads.

I was riding across town with a wheel on my back on Tuesday and a driver said "careful that you don't catch that wheel on your saddle". I was aware of it, and was being quite careful with it, but it was a nice thing to say. Drivers in "not all dicks" shocker.

And then, yeah, someone probably tried to run me over.

Last night on jamaica street, DASed lfgss cap wearing dude with tatooed calves. Think you had earphones in.

This morning chap on silver bianchi trackstanding at the junction next to bank. Smooth

that was me, I produced a skid as we stopped for the ped crossing but wasn't quite infront of you enough for you to see.

after you turned off I saw a popo car chase down an rlj'er to ticket him. very amusing

^did you shout RED! at him?

I'm imagining "Red!" as in the Partidge "Dan! DAN! DAN!" sketch

I'm imagining "Red!" as in the Partidge "Dan! DAN! DAN!" sketch

HA yes, that would have been ace, they were going in the other direction, I sat at the lights and watched had a good chuckle and rode off

edit: just seen the RED reference damn #missedopportunity