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sounds like fun, turd.

like michael foot.

your wanger is like michael foot.

good bless harry rowland wheelsets.

hard as my wanger in the mornings.

harder, even, if that's possible. and straighter. certainly more true.

i guess i haven't "found myself" yet.

garrhgghh

lovely day for a ride though, although here isn't the forum to be waxing lyrical about geared rides to toys hill and back.

very funny.

contextual practice? what is that?

captain birdseye, gazing naughtily at simon in the van:

"i'll give you a hand with your chopper, me hearty, if you give me a hand with mine, harrrrr"

i get annoyed on the occasions when some cock passes me becuase i'm going around 14mph, and i'm wearing revolting lycra, and i can hear his thoughts, each of his two braincells are computing and he is thinking

"i just overtook mr roadie, that makes me special and fast and he is not fast and wearing lycra like idiot".

and i feel the urge to say to him;

"the reason i am going 14mph is because i have just gone 19mph for about 90 miles around kent, up hill and down dale, and now i am riding slowly through elephant because i am indescribably hungry and seeing stars, you mong".

but i say nothing, and my eyes shrink further into their sockets and i fantasise some more about food and let him/it have their moment of glory, because i'm bigger than that.

i teach english in secondary school, 11-18.

although right now, i do fuck all except ride my bike all day in the sunshine because i'm on holiday for another FOUR WEEKS.

just so you know.

'an attempt at...'

it was me who described it as the "coldplay of the fixed world". although i think it's more like one of those horrible audi things driven by estate agents. i also got in trouble for saying that the new spazz wrongsters are a horrible, woeful exercise in specious marketing.

style over substance, the perfect bike for a media-mulleted ad-whore living in shoreditch, or possibly a foxtons estate agent, to place next to their grafittied mini. if cycling is the new golf then expect to find the langster in the white pages of golf punk magazine.

it's a vile bike, the white bar tape looks like a condom has been lovingly unsheathed over the end.

i am prepared to go further: if you ride this particular variant then you have no soul. even a genesis flyer is better. or one of the black wrongsters with the oh-so-funky gothic lettering.

i have the fuji and have replaced the wheels with harry rowland cpx 22s, stuck some cinelli bars on and changed the saddle*.

it's much nicer now and the geometry is just right.

*read: medieval ball-tightening, fuji-branded, gonad-destroying torture implement

have a look in a skip while you're finding dinner - you might get some glue as well.

depends what time...

but sounds good to me. will you be riding fixed?

bromptons make me feel really ill.

is it going to take eight/nine hours?

i am a bit put off by the ride report for the LTB.

lovely.

armadillos are like car tyres with all the grip of a nonogenarian's handshake. they don't pucnture though.

i use gator skins. they do puncture, on average once every 4 months. that may be because i can't stop showing off my amazing skip/skid stops. too many more unscheduled repairs at bethnal green at 630am and may change my mind.

rear well - i got cpx22 with sapim spokes, hand built by harry rowland, from brick lane bikes.

harry rowland is the don.

i saw tht fondiest in there - it's lovely. too small for me though!

be interesting to note how many people riding fixed were ardent bmxers in their youth.

i find a similar thrill with the skid stop and track stand, a sort of adult version, and it reminds me of the carefree days of bmx riding.

i went fixed three months ago.

i've been cycling for years.

i may have been one of them - i cycle up hackney road every day.

and +g, you should take that beast up highgate.

i think i've done pretty much all the hills in that part of kent now.

most of them at the weekend, including sundridge, ides, westerham, and toys.

hmmmm, what fun, hills are your friend.

have to get back out for this one, but yet again can't do this week. i'm running 48:16 (i think, although i am confused and need to go back and count the teeth, because i 'presumed' it was an 18, but have my suspicions. i've been up it a few times lately and it's never defeated me.

i went to toys hill in kent today and i know for a fact that there is no way i could climb that beast (evil side, not gentle side) on anything other than the granny gear on my geared condor.

sounds exciting. i think, yes, although ditchling on fixed scares me more than a little.

martyr for the cause.

don't forget the EPO