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Nice! Although unless you were pelting it down a hill or riding gears I'm gonna be a tad jealous of that kind of speed...

Didn't really know where to put this, but I found out yesterday from a friend that her ex has become a frame builder.
Although my knowledge is a bit limited, some of these look damn nice to me.

http://www.moyercycles.com

Anyone heard of him?

16th I think, so Saturday - presumably someone will kick off a voting thread....

Aww, screw it!

http://www.myspace.com/mcfuckband

Hi Alan, welcome!
For starters I'd recommend the following:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com - I think he pretty much knows everything, so that's a good start.

http://www.parktool.com/repair - more know how

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com - to give you some ideas

http://www.hubjub.co.uk - for bits and pieces

I'm sure there will be many more suggestions on frames/parts etc, but follow some of the discussions on here and you'll start picking things up - certainly worked for me!

cheers,
brett

Apparently metal has a memory, so it depends how long they were out before they'll go back in the right way.

Yep, do it - good laugh - a play in the traffic followed by a brief burst of pain, followed by cool liquid refreshment!

Leaving work in half an hour, have a can of beer in my desk draw. See you there!

good for energy!

That'll be the same pace I'm riding up it then!!

Count me in, it's on me way home!

Good stuff, enjoyed that - will definitely do it again! Tip: if you want good hill training, try and keep up with BringMeMyFix. Thought I might have a heart attack at one point!

I might come and watch...not sure my backwards cycling's up to the task yet. In that it doesn't exist!

Aah, sorry just got back from there - BringMeMyFix just caned me up nearly every hill in North London! This afternoon will be dedicated to beer, but if this weather holds then I'm up for things like this all summer.

That encapsulates everything that is good and just....

No worries. Well I'll be heading down to Gloucester Gate for 9am. If anyone else fancies it, see ya there - if not, I could do with the hills anyway!

Was thinking early, like 9am.
And yes, fixed!

Anyone up for a bit of a hilly spin round North London on Saturday?
Something like this, or possibly longer?

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/41910

Go on, it'll do you good!

To be fair, a lot of Bromptonites were forced into getting them when a ban on full size bikes on the trains came in. And a lot of these are people with 40-50 mile train journeys into London, which personally I wouldn't really fancy twice a day 5 times a week.

The fact they've come up with these 6 is clearly in response to the current backlash against Langsters - "Too boring, not individual, bought by unimaginative chumps who want to pose outside coffee shops" etc.
So in that respect, the point has been missed completely, and will net the owners of these new "off-the-peg-bespoke-fixed-gear" bikes even less respect from the more purist fixed owners/community than the current ones out there.
But Specialized themselves will be fully aware of all of this - I don't think they particularly care who buys them or how they're used. The bikes will shift like hot cakes and they'll make a fat load of money out of it, all off the back of the fact that it's currently cool to pretend to be a courier.

Still, with all these new ones floating around, it might reduce some of my own Langster shame - "that's right - I'm dead old skool, me - straight outta 2005, this one..."

A couple of weeks ago I saw a dude cycling through Crouch End one evening on a black Brompton wearing full racing lycra!

Yeah, great stuff everyone - really enjoyed that. The great thing about that ride is that I can never use "it's too wet" as an excuse not to cycle again!
Good to meet everyone, and definitely up for the next one, when/wherever it may be.

PS velocity boy - Cheers for the lend of your waterproof!

Yeah, that's good. I like living in the hilliest part of London! One that's defeated me was Swains Lane. I think I got stuck behind something and had to slow down just as the gradient kicks up about halfway, and there was no coming back. Grr.

Yep, I've got directions all printed up which should see us right, but it proved too tricky condensing the entire map onto a side of A4 so I've got one of those separately. I'll definitely be there, and will definitely ride seeing as 9am is too early to dive for the nearest pub!

Now here's some interesting options involving Sod's Law:
a) Go and clean the bike up = definite rain and muckiness tomorrow.
b) Leave it grimy and mudguarded = glorious sunshine.

Hmm...

Apart from the weird rumblestrip thing halfway down - nearly threw me clear the first time!