Bike Article in the Indy Today

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/wheel-life-a-guide-to-britains-new-bike-tribes-841244.html

There are more bicyles on Britain's roads than ever before – and in more shapes, sizes and styles. But who's who in the nation's new bike tribes? Simon Usborne hits our city streets and country lanes to find out Friday, 6 June 2008

i saw that, i thought it was funny that they got a messenger who has only been in the job 9 months. i also thought that you could have swapped the fixed gear and sit up and beg pictures and if you didnt aleady know about bikes think that they were the same

Maybe any messenger employed for over 9 months knows better than to speak to a reporter, or has a fixed wheel bike.

Ha Alex Leech! I used to ride with him at the ramps at Oxford!

Ha Ha! Hippy outed:
The Tribe: Weekend Warrior
The Rider: Eryn Nolan, 26
The Bike: Specialized Roubaix Pro
I started going to spinning classes at the gym just to lose weight but thought I might as well get out and do it on the road. So I got myself a Lance Armstrong training book and did a 14-week programme on spin bikes before I even got a road bike. Then I started riding with my boyfriend.
That was about a year ago and since then cycling at weekends has been a great way for me, as an Australian, to see the English countryside. I quickly started doing longer rides and on my birthday last June I did my first 100-mile ride. Pretty much every weekend since I've done the same. I like the longer distances because you have to look for something inside yourself to keep going when it gets really tough.
For the past month or so I've been doing races as well, which is becoming a bit addictive. They're typically about 50 miles, which is half the distance of "sportives" – the longer rides on set courses. My next big challenge is the Dave Lloyd Mega Challenge – 140 miles, over which you climb a total of 5,000 metres. It's in North Wales at the end of June.
I've joined a club in south-east London, called Dulwich Paragon – it's really fun to ride in groups with great people - and I've definitely developed a fondness for my bike. We spend a lot of time together and it's been pretty good to me.

minh ai, is on here! ;)

"The only thing slowing you down on a bike is air, and if you halve the resistance by riding a recumbent, you dramatically increase your speed."

Do recumbants have tyres with zero rolling resistancer now? Doh :)

Hippy is Wiilesden, not Paragon.

hell yeah Alex Leech = ripper

@50 ^^ and I doubt he's a 26-year-old woman - but you never know with facial hair...

"The only thing slowing you down on a bike is air, and if you halve the resistance by riding a recumbent, you dramatically increase your speed."

Do recumbants have tyres with zero rolling resistancer now? Doh :)

the rolling resistance isnt halved, but they are so much faster than normal bikes that they were banned from pretty much every tour or race, even on track, in the 1930s because people felt they were too fast.

Recumbarrospok

i met that guy (if it was him of bikefix...looks like it anyway) at camden greenfest thingy last weekend. i sat on recumbent but failed get going. i was shtting myself. very awkward position to be on. props to those who go through the mean streets of london on a recumbent.

why did everyone who wrote for that article sound like a 12 year old writing 'what i did in the school holidays' homework?

OK Monkey write about your cycling experiences, show us how it should be done ;)

i'd have written mine in rap form about the joy of plastic trikes.

i met that guy (if it was him of bikefix...looks like it anyway) at camden greenfest thingy last weekend. i sat on recumbent but failed get going. i was shtting myself. very awkward position to be on. props to those who go through the mean streets of london on a recumbent.

Yes, they were pretty weird to get used to. I got going Ok but was thrown by having to steer with the steerer, ratehr than leaning into corners. Very odd.

I helped some guy to get going onone, but after about 4 attempts he gave up. I'm amazed that people perservere with the learning curve.

I wonder what it must be like to learn to ride a 'normal' bike as an adult?

minh ai, is on here! ;)

no. it wasn't me. denial.

the person in the article sounds like a wanker and minh ai is not a wanker.

"It's a very personal thing – I don't have the same relationship with my GanWell as I did with my old mountain bike - I take my fixie to bed with me every night".

minh ai does not have an 'ex-track frame'...it is still a track frame.

why did everyone who wrote for that article sound like a 12 year old writing 'what i did in the school holidays' homework?

because they were all written by one guy, but as if it were the first person. unfortunately this guy didn't listen to what the first person said.

"The only thing slowing you down on a bike is air, and if you halve the resistance by riding a recumbent, you dramatically increase your speed."

Do recumbants have tyres with zero rolling resistancer now? Doh :)

I'm selling a Zero Rolling Resistancer if anyone is looking.

Minh Ai you're hot!

@50 ^^ and I doubt he's a 26-year-old woman - but you never know with facial hair...

Yeah, you had me worried there. I thought I'd been writing the wrong name on all those forms I've filled in over the years.

the rolling resistance isnt halved, but they are so much faster than normal bikes that they were banned from pretty much every tour or race, even on track, in the 1930s because people felt they were too fast.

Wind resistance is what is reduced, not rolling resistance.

Do you get buffeting at high speeds with facial hair ?

Do you get buffeting at high speeds with facial hair ?

I've had a trim. My speed has increased 14.6%.