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is that grass growing out of the stem?

i'm back at the ranch now 'cos i got to get up early to record some homo-rock tomorrow. and i'm real tired. i'm never normally this busy. i had to ride over to camden last night for a rehearsal that i forgot about.

off to a wedding on sunday, back late monday.... fancy a ride maybe tuesday?

"mine is from a proper frame builders" this made me laugh, for the right reasons. :P I haven't seen a mercian that hasn't made me drool longingly.

secretly i think the increasing ubiquity of the aerospoke is nothing to with ride quality, but further evidence that ex-bmx devotees are decamping to the world of fixed en masse. in this respect, aerospokes are not much more than mag wheels. the use of fixed for trickery and stuff is further evidence. at the polo court someone bought a skateboard and everyone was doing kickflips and shove-its like it was 1992, and the 3rensho FGL boys were doing all sorts of gnarly shit on their aero-steeds. similarly, the hoxton boy who once might have ridden a bmx round the mean streets of shoreditch can now do the same on fixed, maintain their hipster status and actually get somewhere five times quicker.

if you get a chance, or can be bothered have a look at some of bikesnob's responses to criticism on the comments page, he's very level headed and reasonable.

don't worry about toe overlap, it isn't what it's cracked up to be.

genesis flyer is the cheapest option, and they might have sorted out their chainline issues by now. how much is a soma? is that from mosquito?

48:18 for your commute.

that link really upset me when i looked at it the other day. i don't like it when animals and humans cross fertilise.

i don't really think it's like an old man laughing at children. and to be fair, he takes the piss out of the bicycles, not riders, and the ones he targets are pretty much already in the realms of parody anyway. it's one thing to be into the design of your bike, it's another altogether to be into the 'idea' of design, have more money that sense, and still manage to cobble together a piece of expensive shit that satisfies no aesthetic criteria whatsoever and rides like a turd, threatening to throw the rider with every revolution. some bikes are plain wrong, and no amount of aerospokery or top tube padding will help. and i think he's right to satirise the hermeutically sealed bubble of velospace/fgg, where builds are photographed with infinite diligence and posted, in a sort of admittanceof mass male autism (me included). and if people don't want the attention, they shouldn't build and ride aggressively attention-seeking bicycles with inapppropriate frames or wheels. sometimes i sit at the lights and glance around and it's like some warped, human-powered version of 'the fast and the furious', it scares me. bsnyc on the other hand makes me laugh. and i can't quite get away from the fact using an aerospoke, or tri, to ride around london is more than a teeny bit excessive, even if it might look cool.

anyone out tonight? riding/drinking?

iw as going to say, you can get a condor for £150 less.

i am of the opinion that bikesnob is very funny.

we can feed the deer!

i think it's in bushey. it might not be.

sounds like fun. count me in.

i was in the pub with cajeta and we chained our bikes outside, her hetchins, my bob jackson. a man commented "those are some really lovely bikes" and i got a warm glow inside on account of my vanity.

where is this £900 bike then? that's a massive shitload of money for a new bike/first fixed. i'm intrigued.

nb: you don't have to justify yourself, unless you feel guilty about it.

so, we got a list for this?

me, cajeta, mashton, nimhbus all definite...

i'd get a bob jackson, midnight blue, with green lug lining.

oh wait - what's this?

and surely if you want to wait four years for a bike you could just go to condor?

would love to but am at a wedding, next time...

i left my bike locked to a lamp-post by spitalfields market on a saturday a few months ago. i locked it through the frame.

when i came back i realsied i hadn't, in fact, locked it throguh the frame at all. what i'd actually done was wrap the lock around the frame (and by frame i mean top tube only), then left it there for 2 hours to see if anyone fancied a go.

miraculous.

or - drink after?

well-earned and all that...

i recommend seeing it on the big screen. it has a voice of god narration, very seventies. it also has an amazing and weird soundtrack.

if you are going to go, i suggest you book in advance. it's in nft 3, which is not massive...

it's on a sunday, we could ride down.

a sunday in hell by jorgen leth, the best cycling film ever, is on at the NFT on october 7th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_in_Hell

asslips.

isn't that a song by the bellrays?

vegansdontneedgears fyou all oviously are too mature.

what? in english please.

actually -i like the idea of a ride/race up from the jon snow to the flask. sounds great. have a drink, then back again.

i up for a highgate ride, but not this late (buk buk)

i'd be up for a ride up at six on a friday, followed by drinks, then a ride around...