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Why bother? No reason, really, other than I keep being told to take them off. That and I like to slide my crotch up and down the top-tube while waiting at traffic lights. OK, it's a personal issue, and one I'm trying to deal with...

Everyone keeps telling me to get rid of the braze-ons on my top tube... Anyone have any tips on how to do this / and touch up the paint afterwards? A colleague of mine keeps offering to lend me an angle-grinder but I've never used one before so I reckon I'd end up with two half-bikes all too easily. Not too fussy about doing a good paint job, the frame was resprayed when I bought it.

I'll be doing the DD this year if I happen to be around. There's a few from my office doing it, if I go I'll definitely be doing it fixed.

Yet another software developer (aka geek) for a "noo meeja" agency. Yawn. Never meant to ride fixed but I was told to try it and never looked back.

http://www.bicyclemagic.com is a nice place, down towards Whitechapel. They put a wheel together for me at a good price (~£15 plus the cost of spokes) and they have bike racks inside the front door. Some fixie stuff, too.

I like to park my bike up against the picnic benches outside the Oxford in Kentish Town, grab a pint and watch the Saturday afternoon shoppres go by. Good place for cyclists on warm summer evenings. Usually there mid-afternoon, trying to settle my liver after the night before.

Thought I'd try this circuit out, with a raging hangover and burnt out lungs. The last 20 metres of the hill are a killer. On the approach I burned up a multi-geared carbon fibre motherfucker, and he only caught me just before the summit, saying "I'm impressed" as he passed. Downhill bit's nice though. Coughed all the way back home afterwards. Nice.

First and last time I did this was after a couple of days riding fixed, when I was spinning out to beat a traffic light. Switching to SPDs solved the problem for good :)

38x14, 3/32. Why? Just the bits I could get hold of at the time. Planning to get a bigger ring at some point.

Right now? Anaal Nathrakh!

No idea what it is, got the frame second (more likely third) hand and it was resprayed, so there's no branding. Looks a bit like this, though now it has better wheels, saddle and drivetrain than in this photo.

http://www.pbase.com/dr_fonz/image/68544477/large

Also have a beat-up old Kona and just scored a bargain Fetish frame for making something not fixed (for long rides on hills), when i can find the money to buy the other bits.

I ride with On-one Mungo moustache bars. In fact, I built my bike around the bars rather than the other way round. I find the moustache very special - it offers a lot of riding positions from laid-back to extreme, and they also attract a lot of "nice handlebars" comments :) The only downside is they are a bit wide, so squeezing past buses can be a little hairy. I used to ride on a pair of homemade bullhorns as a kid (cut-off drop-bars) and I still think they're the most practical bar for city riding - but the moustache is more fun.

Bar tape? I don't use it, I just wear Rapha criterium gloves instead.