Spotted...

Last night I spotted and was cut up several times by a blonde chap on a brakeless de-stickered Bianchi pista. If I see you again and you ride at me from the side, hop in front of me and then skip stop (your ratio is obviously too high - you shouldn't be doing such dead stops when you skid), forcing me to slam my brakes on - I will just crash into you next time, and I don't care if it hurts both of us. You ride like a right wanker.

That blonde guy obviously enjoys the danger zone a bit too much..

I saw a blonde guy this morning jump the light and nearly get sqauashed by a bus. Maybe it's the hair??

Pajama's on bishopsgate, heading home i expect - around 11.30 - 12pm last night

I'll give you that one J - more like 12.30 but definitely me - but where was you?

• flickwg, 11pmish, on the junction of ballspond and kingsland, having a breezy look round as if deciding where to go - I was in the noodle joint having a late dinner

• girl with a white/purple condor (not sure if it was fixed) with superb pale pastel orange hair that somehow went right along with th ebike - looking good at Borough tube junction this morning around 9.20

and who is the guy with the pink low-pro, bendy top tube? we to'ed and fro'ed along OKR today but you was nippier... :)

Guy coming out of 37 Degrees in Olympia. I said "Wikid Bike" to you as you were unchaining.

Black frame with green and orange rims cycling up the hill through Hyde Park this morning.

I think I saw JayGee whizz past me southbound on Balham Hill - wasnt sure we were both caning it, but I'm sure I saw a flash of Surly and wavy black hair.
Also a roadie from Colliers Wood to Clapham, wearing light blue rather seethrough shorts, I was staring and laughing at his hairy arse crack for about 2 miles, I wanted to comment at the lights at the top of Balham hill but was laughing inside too hard.

Tommy last night spinning down cheapside, going east...looked in a rush...

Object whizzing through the reds across Old St roundabout last night. 6:30ish.

Shared a nod with a guy on a pink Bridgestone this morning, same place coming the other way. And some guy on a green no-name with yellow tyres,from Old St to the Mall we were exchanging the lead ... nice ride this morning.

Oh, and some cunt in a mini last night near Sloane Square who pulled a U-turn into my path. I screamed "oi" very loud. He wound down his window and shouted "That was a bit of an over reaction." I was too angry for words so resorted to flippin the bird.
For the next half hour (and I hate this) I kept getting wittier retorts coming into my head. Why are they never there when you need them?

1. Some 'cool dude' on a langster new york. It made me wonder if I could have flagged him down and got a ride.

2. An old college friend on a white frame / aerospoke front /deep v rear / brookes saddle fixie. Made me think - wow he's another victim. He was missing the beard / skinny jeans / chrome bag / retro cycling cap combi to be a true fixed wheel disciple. This sight prompted me to think 'I must delete him number from my phone.'

Object whizzing through the reds across Old St roundabout last night. 6:30ish.

Shared a nod with a guy on a pink Bridgestone this morning, same place coming the other way. And some guy on a green no-name with yellow tyres,from Old St to the Mall we were exchanging the lead ... nice ride this morning.

Oh, and some cunt in a mini last night near Sloane Square who pulled a U-turn into my path. I screamed "oi" very loud. He wound down his window and shouted "That was a bit of an over reaction." I was too angry for words so resorted to flippin the bird.
For the next half hour (and I hate this) I kept getting wittier retorts coming into my head. Why are they never there when you need them?

I get that all the time - ususally resort to 'Twaaaaaaat' and then think of something far better a minute or so afterwards.

Nice to meet you the other day btw, I had a world beating hangover so apologise if I wasn't that chatty!

saw a chap that looked like chris evans, on a black whip, on the pavement! up top end of dalston. tut tut tut. ...

Can I just say, for the record, this wasn't me. With or without my toothbrush.

1. Some 'cool dude' on a langster new york. It made me wonder if I could have flagged him down and got a ride.

2. An old college friend on a white frame / aerospoke front /deep v rear / brookes saddle fixie. Made me think - wow he's another victim. He was missing the beard / skinny jeans / chrome bag / retro cycling cap combi to be a true fixed wheel disciple. This sight prompted me to think 'I must delete him number from my phone.'

Did you ever think that maybe Langster guy doesn't give a f*ck about being a 'cool dude' and actually just liked the bike?
And why would you even joke about deleting your friend from your phone just cos of the kind of bike he rides?
Maybe you haven't realised it yet but you're as much a 'victim' as anyone else simply for having that kind of fucked up attitude....stereotyping works both ways!
Why not just think about how good it is that your mate is even on a bike and not slagging you off behind your back on a forum.
Why do people keep thinking that if they come on here slagging certain bikes or types of riders we're all gonna 'lol' your comments and share a fucking chuckle at someone elses expense?

Another day...another rant...:(

Tommy last night spinning down cheapside, going east...looked in a rush...

Trying to catch the lights I expect. Sorry I missed you, I always miss everyone who spots me unless I actually talk to them at traffic lights. I'm in my own world.

Did you ever think that maybe Langster guy doesn't give a f*ck about being a 'cool dude' and actually just liked the bike?
And why would you even joke about deleting your friend from your phone just cos of the kind of bike he rides?
Maybe you haven't realised it yet but you're as much a 'victim' as anyone else simply for having that kind of fucked up attitude....stereotyping works both ways!
Why not just think about how good it is that your mate is even on a bike and not slagging you off behind your back on a forum.
Why do people keep thinking that if they come on here slagging certain bikes or types of riders we're all gonna 'lol' your comments and share a fucking chuckle at someone elses expense?

Another day...another rant...:(

Whatever captain cool of the cool police of cooltopia, you just don't want the competition.

Shut up Tommy, have repped him for that.

and who is the guy with the pink low-pro, bendy top tube? we to'ed and fro'ed along OKR today but you was nippier... :)

sounds like JV - can't recall him posting on here for a while. good on him for letting his riding do the talking

A London langster in new york...
A old black langster where the owner had changed the name to
gangster I liked it.

Shut up Tommy, have repped him for that.

I'm only piss taking, sorry for any offence. I tried to rep him too but have been repping him too much for his rants lately.

Did you ever think that maybe Langster guy doesn't give a f*ck about being a 'cool dude' and actually just liked the bike?
And why would you even joke about deleting your friend from your phone just cos of the kind of bike he rides?
Maybe you haven't realised it yet but you're as much a 'victim' as anyone else simply for having that kind of fucked up attitude....stereotyping works both ways!
Why not just think about how good it is that your mate is even on a bike and not slagging you off behind your back on a forum.
Why do people keep thinking that if they come on here slagging certain bikes or types of riders we're all gonna 'lol' your comments and share a fucking chuckle at someone elses expense?

Another day...another rant...:(

Thanks for your rant, and in response.

1. How do you know I didn't mean 'cool dude' sincerely, it was the new york taxi look that I took issue with, surely a more correct ride would have been the Langster London (in a geographic and patriotic sense, (Her Majesty would be very please with his choice)).

2. I did ask my friend "what's with the fashionable bike?"' to which he replied "oh, I know. I've had it for ages but haven't been on it all summer cos there's so many about – it's a bit embarrassing really" Then we joked about the whole 'get the look' thing and about deleting his number. It was very amusing really but I guess you had to be there, but you weren't.

I'm sorry if I struck a nerve you obviously have a hang up with people criticising fashionable fixed wheels and their on-trend owners. You're not one are you? If so I'm sorry you're welcome to crit my ride which is a Raleigh Budgie, I bought it to stand out of the crowd, so you are correct I am a victim, both of circumstance and wanting to be an individual.

Just because you have the ability to be a prick it doesn't mean you have to be!

If you meant cool dude sincerely you shouldn't have 'emphasised' it.

If you'd written that version of your old college friend story then maybe you wouldn't have made yourself come across in the way you did.

And wanting to stand out from the crowd doesn't make you an individual...it makes you part of the whole 'wanting to stand out from the crowd' clique...sorry man but you just became another victim.
Just getting on with being yourself would have been more individual.
Now if you're quick,i hear there's a group of people on brick lane having a 'how to stand out from the crowd by riding quirky old raleigh kids bikes' meeting!

Now if you're quick,i hear there's a group of people on brick lane having a 'how to stand out from the crowd by riding quirky old raleigh kids bikes' meeting!

Oi Scott, I ride an old Raeigh kids' bike! (Perhaps that's precisely what you mean though.. eh, eh? EH?) Hah! :p

sounds like JV - can't recall him posting on here for a while. good on him for letting his riding do the talking

he sure had a nice riding style. RLJ all the way though, then again I can't throw stones.

then again I can't throw stones.

Wuss

Wuss

not LITERALLY.

come on how do you know I didn't really mean that I couldn't throw stones?

i guess you had to be there, but you weren't.

I am a victim of cruel genophenosocial circumstances, sticking out like a sore thumb. I try to guess what's needed to be there, where everyone else is, but I'm wasn't :(

Just because you have the ability to be a prick it doesn't mean you have to be!

If you meant cool dude sincerely you shouldn't have 'emphasised' it.

If you'd written that version of your old college friend story then maybe you wouldn't have made yourself come across in the way you did.

And wanting to stand out from the crowd doesn't make you an individual...it makes you part of the whole 'wanting to stand out from the crowd' clique...sorry man but you just became another victim.
Just getting on with being yourself would have been more individual.
Now if you're quick,i hear there's a group of people on brick lane having a 'how to stand out from the crowd by riding quirky old raleigh kids bikes' meeting!

And just because you clearly have the ability to be a very angry non-individual it also means you don't have to be.

As for the comedy bike ride leaving Brick Lane, that's an excellent idea. I'm just popping out for lunch and can tootle round my 'fine fine ride'. Will you be there? I really hope so and if you are, how will I spot you? Or is the whole point is I won't spot your and you'll just be there.

I'm just trying to fit in, that's all. I'd like to be a self-appointed moral guardian of all things related to the wheel. The only difference from you and I is that I don't have to resort to using expletives to express my fury at the posts I read on this website.

So I may be a 'prick' but I do have the moral high ground AND I will stand on it which will make me 'literally' stand out of the crowd.