Evening Standard still writing nonsense about bicycles

Shamelessly culled from Buffalo Bill's twitter.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23743680-details/Style+riders:+the+new+breed+of+cyclists+in+London/article.do

As an antidote to all this polka-dotted nostalgia, a trend for fixed-gear bicycles is sweeping the East End. Fixed gear bicycle riders —“fixies” — pare down bikes to their very essence, often even removing the handlebars. The chain is fixed, meaning the pedals rotate whenever the wheels are turning, like an exercise bike. You can usually spot a fixie at traffic lights, performing a “track stand”, ie balancing atop their stationary bicycles, pedalling slightly forwards and backwards just enough to stay still.

You couldn't make it up. Oh wait, she did. Esther Walker is a very lazy journalist

<-- lazy

I saw that via Bill's twitter too. I concur, Esther Walker is a lazy journalist who can't use the grey stuff between her ears.

could be a bad edit? perhaps she meant to write:
Fixed gear bicycle riders —“fixies” — pare down bikes to their very essence, often even removing the brakes and their levers from the handlebars.

let's not accuse a journalist of not doing their research.

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you're just trying to derail this as quickly as possible. aren't you?

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Well, there's definitely some lazy sub-editing going on

I love spotted dick

Are they freckles or raisins?

what a list.

I'd forgotten about Alice Fishergate. Possibbly my favourite forum moment was reading Tynan's remix of her 'article'.

link for those of us with weak UTFS capabilities?

@skully - would that be Alice Fisher of the Observer? ;-)

Required reading for all new forumengers:

http://aycu05.webshots.com/image/45324/2001489975006749620_rs.jpg

Ah no, I remember that bad boy. Very nice.

Repost. :)

http://www.londonfgss.com/post942841.html

Can't we just make some comments about her being a woman like the good old days

Repost. :)

https://www.londonfgss.com/post942841.html

ha! serves me right for not keeping up-to-date with every thread on the site. i apologise.

Genius.

ha! serves me right for not keeping up-to-date with every thread on the site. i apologise.

Learn to speed-read. ;)

"Fanatical fixies get their bikes custom-made at Shop 14 in the Truman Brewery"

Erm...i'm pretty sure most build their own. Also, love the way "fixie" is being used. Wait til the mail get hold of it, we'll be the the new "hoodie"

Riding Bar-less is the new black, you lot should HTFU.

Riding Bar-less is the new black, you lot should HTFU.

WTF do you know? Bikeless is the new black. All you need in is the shoes the lycra and the shoes.

And I spent £40 on the drops! Come on guys, you should have said something. Thanks friggin' very much for help - in the future you must tell the newbies, that there's no need for handlebars :-P

Apparently in NYC you can get an A-head stem made with both clamps orientated on the same plane, you then face it back over the top tube and attach a door knob to the end. Tillers are the new black, bwoy

I'm goin straight down to BLB tomorrow.

Jesus, Id better put my handlebars x2 up for sale or freecycle then, seems we don't use/need them!

We all shop at 14 too, don't we?