shandy

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• RLJ (Red Light Jumping). (The definitive bikeradar thread)

  in General • 16 years, 4 months

  

  nothing wrong with a nice rack

• Rollapaluza

  in General • 16 years, 4 months

  

  theo boss is one sexy guy

• Tour de France 2008

  in Rides & Races • 16 years, 5 months

  

  I loved his quote last year "the guys built like a brick you know a brick err shithouse.. err i mean.. umm errr"

  I think he meant to say "built like a brick so-and-so house" but it came out as "built like a brick shit so-and-so".

  Funny as fuck!

• "One Less Car" Campaign via Hi Vis Vests

  in General • 16 years, 6 months

  

  Only £12.95!

• Sleeping feet

  in General • 16 years, 6 months

  

  Put an old penny in your sock before you strap your sidi shoes on.

• 2008-05-09 - Rider Down, Regents Park Outer Circle

  in Rider Down • 16 years, 7 months

  

  They should ban motorised traffic from the outer circle - although i'd probably let residents/mosque vistors with the appropriate permit travel the boulevard at up to 20 mph with an appropriate permit.

  Same for Richmond Park. Was round there this afternoon and there was an awful load of cars on the road ruining it for everybody else.

• Critical Mass - August '07

  in Rides & Races • 17 years, 3 months

  

  I'd forgotten about this til I bumped into it on my way home. It looked like a biggy. Rode for a while along New Oxford Street and down to Trafalgar Square. One bicycle copper was stood on the cobbled bit on the south side of Trafalgar Square and I heard another copper walk up and say (laughing) 'here, guv, I think we're a bit under-resourced on this one...'

• Trackstanding in 1899

  in General • 17 years, 5 months

  

  biometric moustache authentication is the only way to verify it

• Tour de France 2007

  in Rides & Races • 17 years, 5 months

  

  They are all at the drugs bar one or two. I don't care that much, except I remember i was (naively) gutted last year after enjoying the Landis miracle recovery . "This is the most remarkable comeback in the history of the Tour de France". Amazing what a large whisky or two will do to sort you out.

  Anyroad - I have money on Kloden. C'mon you big German bastard!

• Welcome

  in General • 17 years, 5 months

  

  Hello i am Shandy

  I have been commuting in London on a Condor geared bike since 1997.

  Have seen more and more nice fixed wheel bikes on the roads in the last year or two, including the bike in the work car park belonging to a proper road/track racing guy at work. He said "yeah, go fixed. good for fitness and you will njoi".

  Then our work opened up a work bicycle scheme for a while so you get it tax free. Unfortunately, they did it via wheelies.co.uk. Buying bikes online is shite and they didn't help much. I wanted a fixed and the only 1 they had in my size was the Trek T1. It got delivered with a free wheel cog on and i'm no bicycle maintainer so took it to local shop. They were not impressed with the hubs but managed to put the fixed cog on.

  Although not my first choice am happy to report after a week's commuting and wee ride last sunday that I love it.

  best bits are:
  the acceleration, so much faster
  makes me always have a go, no coasting
  riding on the right of the traffic (thanks to reading this forum in advance), so much quicker/safer
  legs feeling absolutely battered after the usual 100 miles in the last week
  forgetting to pedal and getting a twat from each pedal to remind me

  shit bits:
  not being able to trackstand and getting caught at lights doing an angry bull manuver with my free leg to get the pedals round
  nowt else