Spotted in Manchester...

Some guy on a polo bike, looked yellow and MTB'ish. Going down Princess St / Upper Brook St last Thursday evening.

Mr Chan. Some other people

craig from Evans i recon

Nes' fixie on the Aende flickr group pool

Spotted - that battered orange fixie with the rusty chain always locked up outside Withington library - smashed! Walked past it Saturday morning - the back wheel was ruined, and the stays were badly bent. Had the shit kicked it out of. Full moon the night before - all the animals come out at night. Hard luck whoever owns it.

Spotted: lots of very wet cyclists, some with gears, some without, NONE with smiles!

Rory in the Chinese this lunchtime? i was sat on the other side of the room and didn't notice until you were leaving, or a Rory look alike?

snow again :(

Rory in the Chinese this lunchtime? i was sat on the other side of the room and didn't notice until you were leaving, or a Rory look alike?

All that fucking MSG with my blood sugar issues?! No chance!

There is a proper me lookalike around I think cause a few people keep saying they've seen me. Bet his beard's nowhere near as good as mine though!

i dont know it was a pretty amazing beard, it was about this level:

why how good is yours now?

oh really?! I've just given mine a hacking so it's back to normal.

His wins (though my bike is less shit).

hangs head

Someone clearly more awake than me on a planet x carbon jobby up oxford road this morning. Looks fucking ace.

Craignasty probably

not me. rolling on the bridgestone for the last few months...

Someone clearly more awake than me on a planet x carbon jobby up oxford road this morning. Looks fucking ace.

dave?

Polo Paul and Manc Ronnie both in Withington, i was far too hungry to stop and say hi though!

The world and his fucking wife in the last couple day.
Purple Graham Weigh with gold rims on Oxford Road.
Red frame with gold rims going the other way at the same time.

The guy with the black conversion & huge bmx bars trying to get out of the saddle but just bobbing up and down with each rotation, hilariously. Hipster chief.

Chrome charge like mine, but with original wheel set. Locked up on maybe King Street? The only hill in Manchester. I can't remember what it's called.

An old red and white raleigh locked up just off Albert Square. Fucking loads more too. Good on you for getting a bike and everything, learning to ride like a grownup is the next step I guess.

The Bikehaüs were both remarking t'other day about how something has flipped and suddenly EVERYONE is walking into your path and drivers are just swerving right into people. I'd understand if it was just me, I've got the kind of animal magnetism that people are drawn to, even in cars; but everyone is getting close calls. Some cyclist had a massive go at Ste about brakes too. Crazy bullshit on the roads this year...

yeah it has gona a bit mad at the mo. the other day in oen ride into town i saw two seperate drivers just gazing into space in the middle of the junctions not realising cars were zoomign aroun them as the lights had changed.
Guy with the BMX bars is on my course, well safe, btu im not so sure about the bars...

plus id say 1 in 5 drivers are on there mobile phones! like everyone and if you say anything or stare at them the just tell you to fuck off as if its not illegal and incredibly dangerous

The Bikehaüs were both remarking t'other day about how something has flipped and suddenly EVERYONE is walking into your path and drivers are just swerving right into people.

True. I nearly got totalised by some cunt running a redlight on Castlefield roundabout on Sunday night. Think I saw you last night in Fallowfield going past the Corner, chrome charge w/ black bars?

plus id say 1 in 5 drivers are on there mobile phones! like everyone and if you say anything or stare at them the just tell you to fuck off as if its not illegal and incredibly dangerous

Like riding brakeless? :-P

Like riding brakeless? :-P

dont be a dick im not riding a 1 ton metal box with one hand while chatting to my friends on the phone trying to turn/change gear and finish my mc muffin breakfast

True. I nearly got totalised by some cunt running a redlight on Castlefield roundabout on Sunday night. Think I saw you last night in Fallowfield going past the Corner, chrome charge w/ black bars?

That's me, entirely possible although I cant remember what I did on Sunday?

I hit some guy who walked out between two buses on Wednesday morning, I didn't even have time to shout anything, we both tumbled and I hit the ground pretty hard. I bounce fairly well but now my right arm and leg are refusing to move without serious painnnn.

Fucking annoying.

Rory yesterday on portland street, black bike white helmet, lame beard? ;-)

piss off - Helmet?! Not fucking me. ;)

Don't tell me that my look-a-like now has a bike too. FFS! Plus I haven't cleaned the fuji in a year so it's more grotty grey than black!

ah sorry

Earlier today, stopped at a traffic light in didsbury. posh looking middle aged woman with a buggy is waiting to cross the road. she turns to me and says:

"So do i go when these lights (gestures at green and red man) are on green or red?"
"Urm green..."
"Oh thanks, i don't normally go out without the car so i wasn't sure"

you mean the whole red man/green man, standing man/walking man, noisy beeping etc wasn't enough of a clue?!