Fucking Nodders!

Wikipedia - 2020 edition.

Fixie Skidders - an elite group of London Cyclists formed in 2007 in Shoreditch; took part in the Great Battle of Trafalgar Square (April - October 2010) against the Commuter Coalition (Nodders, MTB&ATB League with some support or rogue Shoppers). Disbanded in Winter 2012 after its Tarck Brakless unit of suicidal skidders suffered great losses - the closure of its BLB headquaters combined with heavy frost ("Easts are dead"). Widely condemned by the Daily Mail. Some members found refuge in Argentina.

no mention of who originally coined the term.
cuntz.

What Scoble?

It's a really sad story. I can't bear it. Why is life like this, fate so fickle? There's us, serious, streamlined and sweet with our carbon forks and we ride into someone who doesn't even have the decency to buy an overvalued vintage Colnago with Delta brakes that might have helped. It's painful, stupid and

I can't go on, I'll go on

What Scoble?

it wer I.
upon meeting corny and his crowd off hangers on in richmond park i said in a loud voice
"hello are you the london fixie-skidders?"

This thread is bikeradar boring

This morning made my slightly tempted to pack away the bike for the summer.
Where do they come from?

This morning made my slightly tempted to pack away the bike for the summer.
Where do they come from?

Archway... or so i have heard

This should have been an instructional thread.

How not to.

I fucking wrote that one, Andy.

It is my bible.

This morning made my slightly tempted to pack away the bike for the summer.
Where do they come from?

Yep. For commuting anyway. I'm not going to moan because it is, after all, a fundamentally positive thing. It's just a whole different experience these days. It wasn't many years ago that i'd regularly be the only cyclists at the lights on my morning commute. At the back of a queue on Rosebury Ave this morning I counted well over 20 furiously jostling, swerving undertaking cyclists.

Now I usually hang back and watch the carnage whilst trying to think positive Amsterdammy-esque thoughts.

It can be trying though. I'm sure Oliver has said it before but the main problem is that the cyclist population explosion hasn't yet learned how to operate together. There's no universally understood ettiquette. I'm sure we'll get there though. After all, compared to the French and Italians our urban traffic is positively sedate. Hopefully our nascent cycling society will evolve quickly.

Now I usually hang back and watch the carnage whilst trying to think positive Amsterdammy-esque thoughts.

100%. I have just gone back to a commute after working from home for the past 9 months. It's great being on the bike more and I have found my attitude has changed. I used to be an angry, shouty racer, but for some reason I am now more content to cycle at a slower, more consistent pace, and not worried if I'm not at the front when the lights change. I still pass plenty of people, including the ones jostling at the lights and running reds. Mindfull cycling FTW.

I went home via Clapham Park road yesterday and it was like a bloody bad peleton. There would have been at least 20 people on bikes at the lights. In front, behind and on both sides of cars. No wonder drivers get pissed off occasionally. I'd not like to be a driver with cyclists like that around. I don't really want to be a cyclist with cyclists like that around. I now just chill, laugh and cringe.

Someone crashed into my side/leg the other day on Borough Road nr St George's Circus she tried to filter past me as I waited at the traffic lights (I assume to RLJ) through a non existant gap her brakes didn't work so by the time she had the realisation there was not enough space to squeeze through she couldn't stop before colliding with my leg.

I think it's safe to assume that 98.5% of cyclist are in fact "nodders" Every day I get under taken or watch dangerous RLJing and filtering by every kind of cyclist. Yesterday coming through Hyde Park Corner and up Piccadilly I was having fun watching two hip fixie ridrz one on a electric bluee Eddy Merkxcxsxksx and the other on a navy blue BJ, they had matching black beanies and all... they're on here for sure. They were undertaking and RLJing the whole way to Clerkenwall. They looked cool though...

Anyway, before i fall asleep with my own post. I sometimes ride like shit but it's happening less and less yet the calm is growing.

I was being a Nodder yesterday, on my pashley/dutch/cargo/pub bike, and took great pleasure in keeping a couple of fixed riders spinning in my wake, who the moment they realised they couldnt pass me despite spinning their hearts out, had the red mist descend, and took too overtaking me in the ASL, only for me to take them later.

So if you bump into a hot nodder and end up back at her studio apartment, is it ok to ask her to leave on the fluro waist coat and make it a race?

you ever seen a hot nodder???

Fixie skidders are hotter.

you ever seen a hot nodder???

good point, there must be one or two out there?

yo momma

So when does a "nodder" graduate to being a "real" cyclist?