Spotted...

I can roadstand LIKE A MIDDLE MANAGER.

Lacks the impact, somehow.

I can wobble like a politician however.

I can gobble like a politician however.

too much?

too soon

I don't understand this phrase 'trackstanding like a boss.'

I think it involves throwing barrels at an Italian plumber.

Dammit needs a hug

Dammit needs a tongue in his ear.

Fixed.

Hugs!

Finally managed to spot Katie-Coo in whitechapel this morning!

This made my day. Repped for clarity of shouting across 4 lanes of traffic and size of wave (in proportion to size of hair)

Ha! Yeah, I was mostly surprised that I actually noticed you for once!

back in January I was destroyed by a chap who said to me as we commuter raced "are you going to work with me or against me" and we hammered through town together from Kensington to Chiswick. at the time I guessed he rolled at about 25mph. tonight he was on the road again and we worked together through town. the garmin was on the bike today, and it appears his rolling pace is above 25mph, and it was a challenge to keep his wheel or do any meaningful time at the front.

i could make excuses about having 2 locks and all the tools and spares from doing a Dr Bike session on my back, or him being geared and me being fixed. but none of it counts for shit as I guess he is probably 10 or 15 years my senior and was able to talk comfortably at that pace.

some days it can be a pleasure to have my lardy arse served on a platter.

Don't know if he is on here but the beardy guy with the courier bag (green lettering, didn't catch name) who was weaving his way in and out of the pedestrians on the north side of Trafalgar Square, at speed, at about 6 this evening and would have hit me if I hadn't moved aside should consider himself fortunate that I was in a hurry to catch a train otherwise he would have been on the deck. There's no excuse for being a prick.

seen a few nutters with front brake only on single speed not fixed in the past few weeks. good luck stopping quickly and horizontally at the same time, hipster fiends

I was on front brake/free wheel for a few days when I got a puncture and it was faster to swap wheels than fix it.

Thank fuck I swapped back because my brake cable snapped a week later when a smart car pulled out on me.

I've also had my front brake cable snap on me when emergency stopping (to avoid some drunken hipsters in camberwell running across the main road)..

+1 to having a break cable snap

you need some redundancy on braking mechanisms, so a 2nd one is essential

A guy on double tri spok with a carbon frame (SS) with tt bullhorn riding down from farringdon to shoreditch, proper nice bike!

Yellow Merckx low pro with clip on mudguards and a couple of knogs stored on the top tube in the store cupboard / cloak room of a hotel / bar / club place out East today. Hello to you if you are on here. Some nice bikes kicking about in there today.

middleofnowhere on the camden town station junctions, shouted 'do a skid' but you were completely absent.
can't blame you though, this junction is always full of pricks which one needs to observe closely...

Surely it can't save much time to have one of (both?) your shoes attached to the bike, what with the extra risk of crashing that seems to bring?

It's what the pros do.. so they copy.. oh wait they are pros.. um...

Thank fuck I swapped back because my brake cable snapped a week later when a smart **damn stupid car driver **pulled out on me.
ftfu

back in January I was destroyed by a chap who said to me as we commuter raced "are you going to work with me or against me" and we hammered through town together from Kensington to Chiswick. at the time I guessed he rolled at about 25mph. tonight he was on the road again and we worked together through town. the garmin was on the bike today, and it appears his rolling pace is above 25mph, and it was a challenge to keep his wheel or do any meaningful time at the front.

i could make excuses about having 2 locks and all the tools and spares from doing a Dr Bike session on my back, or him being geared and me being fixed. but none of it counts for shit as I guess he is probably 10 or 15 years my senior and was able to talk comfortably at that pace.

some days it can be a pleasure to have my lardy arse served on a platter.

Win story:-)

Thank fuck I swapped back because my brake cable snapped a week later when a smart car pulled out on me.

I've also had my front brake cable snap on me when emergency stopping (to avoid some drunken hipsters in camberwell running across the main road)..

+1 to having a break cable snap
you need some redundancy on braking mechanisms, so a 2nd one is essential

Or ride fixed and learn how to ride your rear wheel.

the rear wheel is the 2nd braking mechanism!

Agreed. I mistakenly assumed and misread that you were referring to a rear brake being the redundant mechanism or a fixed rear wheel. But not both.