Spotted...

are you impersonating a snobby deskperson in one of the galleries down there?

I have been working in Mayfair for the last 2 weeks and will be there Monday - Thursday this week.

object, on hackney road, doing battle with mohawk wind resistance...

yo yo.... Fatboyralph at borough mrkt...... big grinny out to the max... Bright day!! Woop!

Yorgo, I can get you a couple of copies. Give me a holler.

yo yo.... Fatboyralph at borough mrkt...... big grinny out to the max... Bright day!! Woop!

shin trackstanding on the submariner bike...top of the morning to ya!

shin trackstanding on the submariner bike...top of the morning to ya!

I tell yer what its the cleanest bike in all of london town...inside and out ;)

Trackstanding, you musta been going backwards. ha!

object, on hackney road, doing battle with mohawk wind resistance...

Deadly, a sudden crosswind will snap your neck. Recommended for velodromes only.

morning.

followed a bloke with long hair wearing oakley-ish shades on a black frame with flat bars and gold rims all the way from kilburn to just before marble arch this morning. it was a nice smooth, non-stop run thu the traffic too. well it was till i got boxed in by some gap-blocking nobber on a huge mo-mo bike with his girlfriend perched on the back (with her inside-out knickers sticking out the back of her acid-wash jeans). mighty annoying. if you can't fit thru the gap why don't you just stay out of the way instead of ruining it for all the cyclists by weaving about revving your engine and shoving your girlfriend's whites in my face? hmm? hmm?

then i almost managed to say hello to a nice looking girl ina long skirt locking up her s/s iro in the basement of sea container's house. managed a nod and half-smile. whicj wasn't bad for me before 9am.

AUTISM ALERT - last week when walking from upper ground to southwark bridge and back i decided to keep track of fixed vs geared bikes on stamford street. it was 5-4 to the gears on the way there and 5-5 on the way back (fixeds were winning 5-3 till the last couple of seconds). is that right? are nearly 50% of bikes on the southback fixed or s/s now?

to be fair stamford street is bit of a main-drag for curryers it seems. I put this down to the proliferation of offices in the area and the fact that it was outside of main commuting hours (hence the relative lack of of bromptons). still, i found my little survey quite interesting. i tried the same thing on brick lane the other day but got distracted after a while. the score was pretty close to 50/50 there too tho.

Yellow Hoodie, black frame, front arrospok. Paddington St/Baker St
Sunday 31 Aug.1530
Little back pack. I was too far from the junction to determine the bike

Is it me or do most of these posts read like a missed connection thing:
http://www.gumtree.com/london/missed-connection_210_1.html

VB, FAIL for reading gumtee connections!

Fred this morning on Hackney Road, sorry I couldn't stop to chat fella.
Still working all the hours as a corporate bitch.

For googling. I couldn't remember what those things are called. The only ones I ever read were in Private Eye... Eye Spy. They were fucking funny sometimes.

Blackfriars Rd: dude on an orange frame fixed, trackstanding at every available opportunity.

Overtaken by an especially pretty bright reddish/orange bike with double white arrospoke and white taped drops on Victoria Embankment this morning at 9am. Such a nice looking bike! Who dat?

Is it me or do most of these posts read like a missed connection thing:
http://www.gumtree.com/london/missed-connection_210_1.html

That is why I tagged this thread 'lonely hearts' many months ago :)

The London Fields gang cycling down Mare Street on Saturday night, off to kill the 14 year-old.

Also, the woman on a penny-farthing in Broadway Market and London Fields over the weekend.

Don't you just love the dichotomies of Hackney.

Whose bike is this outside South Wimbledon tube station last night?

lock fail^

rakenger

Some girl just cycled up Lewisham Way (right opposite the goldsmiths library) on the path on a very nice white frame with black risers, a couple of cards in the spokes, etc. I tried to get my chinese down my gullet so I could stick my head out the door to shout/spit food "fixed!" but alas I was too slow.

Lonely Hearts club comment: We're you that mystery woman?

Peace

We are you that mystery woman? That Chinese food appears to have made you post in Engrish...

Spotted: Matt Bad Designer going along Stoke Newington High Street just before six. I would have shouted "do a skid" but the flash of orange, pink and two shades of purple that is Matt's bike/bag caused me to have a small epileptic fit.

Also spotted: a few fixed bikes with riders I didn't recognise.

lock fail^

pretty much, as this is the railing where you can easily break off with a few swift kick.

i think its a fail as in, undo the front wheel, pass the bars through the lock and presto, free bike.