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didn't see you Clefty!didn't see any fixed at all in fact.....
Got away in the 2nd batch about 6:05am and made Brighton by 9:20am, geared.
Perfect conditions. Left the hill walkers far behind after the first 10 miles or so.
Beautiful slow ride along to Shoreham with the London Dynamo train, and then a
country lane ride up through Sussex, lots of little bumps though! Home at 2.23pm
@125 miles. Absolutely fecked for the rest of the day!!
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Note the Bianchi Pista is chromed, not brush aluminium.
Brushed aluminium won't fare well through an english winter.
I'm surprised Specialized have continued the city theme....i see very few 'London' Langsters about town. I bet Bob Jackson / Mercian are rubbing their hands together in expectation of all the spin-off orders the style conscious new 'fixies' will place, once they realise the error of their ways.Me: I'm still patiently waiting for my 'classic!' 2006 Wrongster to break. 10,000+ miles and no cracks yet......though its a little like Triggers broom in every other respect!
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My kids (10 & 12) are full-on into this:-
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=l7BkoI5NBzc&feature=related
Skateboards and scooters lie rusting in the garden.Note: these are not those stupid snake-board things.
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Very useful thread GA2G, thx. For wot its worth:-
I replaced my old patchy 'red' armadillos' a month or so ago (5000ish miles on em) with the new version and got a flat front within a week.....vicious piece of flint put a big hole right through it. So popped on an old Gatorskin which I never much liked, but its been OK for a few weeks now.
I don't think the new armies are the full ticket though.
Also, on my road bike (touring really) I've been using Roubaix armadillos (they're 23c/25 so very comfy for long rides). They did a solid job on my LeJog in 2006 when they were new, but have just started to puncture......they've not done more than 2000 miles. So I'm gonna get some Roubaix Armadillo Elites and see if they're up to 1000mile puncture free touring. £24.99 each they wanna be! -
The wise man would argue that you should have seen him and anticipated that he would pull out and formulated a strategy to deal with that eventuality.
As a motorcyclist it becomes second nature to assume that everyone else on the road is an idiot and that if they can do something stupid, its odds-on that they probably will....this is pretty solid advice IMO. I too rode a motorcycle for several life defying years in London....then I crazily rode a scooter for several more years (an old vespa PX with almost no brakes). I still reckon that my motorcycle training (safety left, safety right etc) saves my life very regularly. Always assume the other roads users around you CANNOT see you.....even when they are looking straight (through) at you. Remember, they're in a very comfortable, luxurious, automatic, powerful machine listening to ColdPlay at level 5, eating an apple while on the mobile and drinking coffee. Not the cab/bus drivers though.
Hope you're on the mend Lucky.
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Watchman, this is a singlespeed and fixed forum, you'd get a healthier response about hybrid bicycles from others forums like http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/index.php
but you won't have quite such interesting and colourfully descriptive comments(or bollocks) as you get here.10/10 for the assclown tho.
EDIT - I'm so fecking slow. I'm off to ACF, where they all tend to be slower.
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basically Cuppa T, whatever bike you buy, someone on here will think your a cnut.
So? who gives a shit. I ride a '06 Langster that badly needs a clean, but I don't ride it to look
pretty, oddly I ride it to get from one place to another and its simply convenient to have the minimum amount of moving parts. when I really want to go for a proper long ride I break out the 27 speed.Welcome to the forum btw, and enjoy your 21st birthday.
Good work fellas......you all look like 'real' cyclists as well. Were you in freewheel heaven on all the descents, sticking your legs out and screaming YAAHHHHOOOOOO!!
Can we start a 'Best Shaved Leg 2008' Competition ??