Spotted...

I didn't really mean to imply that it was.

Just figured that if somebody rides their bike in a way that is unpredictable to other road users and pedestrians it might be a good idea to have two methods of braking. You know, just in case you have to stop for any reason.

Y u so grumpy?

Are you 100% sure they only had one means of braking?

You sure? andy p is on holidays; could have been hyperbole.

No, I'm not sure. It kind of looked like him. He seemed quite tall and his bike had a massive head tube, but it could have been someone else. I didn't really get any other details, obviously I was going too fast :p

Are you 100% sure they only had one means of braking?

Well, he had no rear brake, one lever and it was a SS freewheel bike. The rear hub was way too small to be a coaster brake. So I'm fairly sure. This person also seemed to alternate between coasting and pedalling every 25m or so.

Anyway, lets leave this thread for Spotting.

I just whizzed past a group of ten or so fairly forumengy people with bikes on Camberwell Green. Didn't recognise any faces...

Just figured that if somebody rides their bike in a way that is unpredictable to other road users and pedestrians it might be a good idea to have two methods of braking. You know, just in case you won't have the book thrown at you for riding illegally after a collison.

fixed.

Bit boring I thought. Maybe it's that chap who got all fighty a while ago?

What was their name? They jibbered on about how much they could squat etc.

I think it was 'RPM' or something similar.

I've just gone back and read the last page or so.

Who would have thought that a poorly composed sentence would get a person's knickers in a twist so easily?

Sorry for the inadvertent derail ladies and chaps. Emmi on ignore.

Internet is serious business, only place in the world where you can argue for several pages about the importance of toothbrushes.

don't underestimate the need for toothbrushes.

I saw a toothbrush today.

It didn't skid.

I'm glad nobody spotted me today.

I reckon I was scowling, sweating and grimacing constantly. Still massaging the wrinkles out now.

Probably wouldn't have happened if I'd taken a toothbrush.

If you have a wider toothbrush, then you might go a little quicker.

Spotted MissMouse today. Or a lady tramp who had stolen her bike, it was hard to tell.

^ Please tell me this is a lie?

If she was scowling, sweating and grimacing it must have been her...

She had a face like a 1:2500 OS map of the Peak District.

If she was scowling, sweating and grimacing it must have been her...
What can I say? We all have a 'cycling face', just as we have other 'faces'. I'd better leave it there.

I try to keep my faces to a minimum. My bonking face is the same as my other bonking face.

If you have a wider toothbrush, then you might go a little quicker.

repped

i try to keep my faces to a minimum. My bonking face is the same as my other bonking face.
tmi

Oh and Lynx in Vauxhall Sainsbury's

Lovely to see you too, sorry if a bit spaced my brain took a while to recognise you.

Two polo people (A boy and a girl, I think as I wasn't paying attention) on essex road earlier around 5.30 ish. Mallets in bags.

Was trackstanding at some lights on saturday. Chap turns to his woman,
"check out that guy over there, he looks cool"
"the one balancing on this bike?...... he looks like a dickhead"

lolz

guy with multi-coloured lo-pro (w/risers), bumbag and girlfriend in tow on the outer circle of Regent's last night, about 7.30 ish. Nice bike, sort of.

JAMIE, seen fleetingly then lost this morning on Deptford Creek Road

Stonehedge clearly implied that it was especially if they were going to avoid manhole covers.

No, you are a manhole cover.

I saw a guy in a forum jersey riding up Mitcham Lane this morning on a flat-barred fluoro green fixed. Seems a long way south.

I wasn't on fixed, I'm afraid.