Spotted...

dogsballs yeah i challenge you to a dual :p , thank god you've taken the mighty bullhorns off otherwise i'd have no chance ;)

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PISUMO!

JOL please do shout yes - I reckon we all just keep quiet too much when we see other fixie folks we don't know. I hardly ever dare to speak to people I see on my commute. Mo shouting mo friends. Or soemthing

Sometimes. I try not to be out of the house before seven though.

re: the ninja gear calitos: 2 schools of thought, motorists see everybit of you. or nothing at all... shhhh whoosh. gone.
i will try to come down to polo on sunday, BBQ oh yessss.
i wanna see this famous circus bike. I also 'found'/'saved' a polo bike but its not cleaned yet. Just realised its a raliegh bomber!

i spoke to a south african once on my commute after he nearly got hit by a lorry running a red light at the worst possible time. i gave him some genuine, heartfelt, subtle advice and asked if he was ok. he threatened to kill me, in a sort of boer-frontier-eugene-terreblanche voice. since then i've been a bit more reticent.

oh and i think i saw andy cavendish cycles, riding what looked like a flat bar cannondale, WITH GEARS, and a whole heap of boxes in some sort of impromptu bungee arrangement. moving house, apparently.

I see people riding fixed all over the place, I tend to look at them like they are a piece of shit that someone's just walked in.

that stops 'em grinning. the fake bastards.

apart from the odd glimpse of Monsignor Bicicletas, I don't think I've ever seen anyone I know (unless already riding with them)

ha! fucking boers. anytime someone asks me my nationality i tell them i'm a boer with a dead-straight face and they just look really fucking confused.

vic Mo shouting mo friends. Or soemthing

I try to test the water with a nice gentle "morning" or a nod or summink, but mostly get vague scowls from the courier brigade. Unless something stupid happens like almost running the red with two bicycops (aka 'pigs on wheels') sitting at it, or nearly being cab-fodder. In which case y'all are the friendliest lot in the world!

"Mo shouting mo friends." Anyone else foresee a London overwhelmed by confused pedestrians and hollering cyclists?

brilliant

all my saffer mates get called Boers. unconditionally, all the time. they love it.

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Saw edmundane off my bike today in covent garden, I waved and he walked straight past me on the same side of the road and didn't say anything!! :( You looked kind of serious, hope nothing bad had happened!

Saw someone with 2 green deep vs last night while riding no-handed. Smiled, then tried to wave as you went past the other way and very nearly lost control of my bike completely. You probably thought i was a spacker.

asm Saw edmundane off my bike today in covent garden, I waved and he walked straight past me on the same side of the road and didn't say anything!! :( You looked kind of serious, hope nothing bad had happened!

Saw someone with 2 green deep vs last night while riding no-handed. Smiled, then tried to wave as you went past the other way and very nearly lost control of my bike completely. You probably thought i was a spacker.

didn't think. knew.

EDIT - wasn't actually me. i'm just being mischievous ;-) i don't ever see anyone except the courier brigade and no one ever spots me cos my bike ain't cool enough, apparently. i do see andy and the cavendish lads a lot, tho - very helpful people, thanks for helping my mate get his single-speed fixed the other day (if you're reading).

asm Saw edmundane off my bike today in covent garden, I waved and he walked straight past me on the same side of the road and didn't say anything!! :( You looked kind of serious, hope nothing bad had happened!

Saw someone with 2 green deep vs last night while riding no-handed. Smiled, then tried to wave as you went past the other way and very nearly lost control of my bike completely. You probably thought i was a spacker.

shit really, sorry mate! where was that? i went to magma for a bit probably was that time? i normally look at bikes not people if not i should have recognised you! and probably lost in a sea of thought after reading some books for inspiration...

RPM brilliant

all my saffer mates get called Boers. unconditionally, all the time. they love it.

Call a Boer a Dutchman - they'll really love that

saw 2 fixies chicks this morning. one riding a white genisis and another with dreads walking a gorgeous deep red/chrome 80's holdsworth?? track frame with track drops on new cavendish (west end)

dogsballs saw 2 fixies chicks this morning. one riding a white genisis and another with dreads walking a gorgeous deep red/chrome 80's holdsworth?? track frame with track drops on new cavendish (west end)

man - you've got the best commute. All I ever see are fat sweaty blokes trying to puff their way past me on MTBs.

willski [quote]dogsballs saw 2 fixies chicks this morning. one riding a white genisis and another with dreads walking a gorgeous deep red/chrome 80's holdsworth?? track frame with track drops on new cavendish (west end)

man - you've got the best commute. All I ever see are fat sweaty blokes trying to puff their way past me on MTBs.[/quote]same here, hence the surprise!

mornin. i saw a few folk i think. a friendly chap that looked kinda familiar spotted me going around arnold circus, saw a dark haired lady on silver frame, white drops (?) heading along old street from shoreditch highst, and an interesting looking dude on an orange frame, pretty big, ornage bull horns and a orange (i'd like to say hockey) helmet. hello to you all.

spooted (not spotted) @ kingsland rd, heading norf, about 9.30 this mornin...

yellow (almost safety yellow) track frame, dude in near-matching yellow safety jersey, nice wheels and oh-so-quiet. strange thing was his seat tube - dont know who makes them, but theres a girl who i see around on - assumedly - the same make; the frame is monotone, while the seat tube has a contrasting color spiraling down it; in his case his was yellow with black detail (sweet!) and in hers, its pink with white detail.

any one know who makes thesa frames? is they custom?

carlitos spooted (not spotted) @ kingsland rd, heading norf, about 9.30 this mornin...

yellow (almost safety yellow) track frame, dude in near-matching yellow safety jersey, nice wheels and oh-so-quiet. strange thing was his seat tube - dont know who makes them, but theres a girl who i see around on - assumedly - the same make; the frame is monotone, while the seat tube has a contrasting color spiraling down it; in his case his was yellow with black detail (sweet!) and in hers, its pink with white detail.

any one know who makes thesa frames? is they custom?

mercian, signature touch

nice silver schwinn track bike outside The Shins gigs at the Apollo last night. very silver.

Baddesigner - that was me! Morning...

Went up to Hackney this morning and saw about a million people on single speeds...

mashton Spotted Photoben pushing his Iro downhill toward Greenwich after the Blackheath fireworks. No way you could have ridden down that hill - it was pedestrian funnel mayhem :-)

Also, waved to fellow fgss guy whose name I can't remember as we passed on the Serpentine this morning. I always think of him as 'tracker bar man', he knows why...

I need to sort out my memory for names, this is ridiculous.

lol that was me..lucky7 aka Robin aka "tracker bar man"

jonny [quote]carlitos spooted (not spotted) @ kingsland rd, heading norf, about 9.30 this mornin...

yellow (almost safety yellow) track frame, dude in near-matching yellow safety jersey, nice wheels and oh-so-quiet. strange thing was his seat tube - dont know who makes them, but theres a girl who i see around on - assumedly - the same make; the frame is monotone, while the seat tube has a contrasting color spiraling down it; in his case his was yellow with black detail (sweet!) and in hers, its pink with white detail.

any one know who makes thesa frames? is they custom?

mercian, signature touch[/quote]
Nice try, jaydubya.

It was actually invented by Tony DaFonie, way back in the summer of 2007.

Just went out to get bread and saw a small white fix with machined pink V's and a nice deep drop stem outside the bean cafe.