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but given theres different ways that people use fixed gear bikes surely only "fixed gear freestyle" is like bmx, just using track bikes on streets isnt really a discipline.

bikes are the new cars?
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;195859']No, fixed gear is the new rollerblading.

yeah that sounds more like it!

yeah i mean stockwell, it isnt all finished but most of it is, and if you come after 3ish (when tony finishes for the day) then you will be able to skate it, (unofficially though) it really nice to skate, but it is a bit dusty and stuff.

i was talking with some people at brixton bowls about this the other day, and none of them seem to like the idea that fixed gear could become like skating. i mean tricks are fun and all but it can never compete with skateboarding. fair enough that video of that guy jumping the st pauls stair sets is real impressive, but i doubt you could get down london bridge ten on a fixed gear without breaking something.

Come on this is plainly obvious!!

i was just pointing it out

It is a black flag... :)

yeah, but the 4 blocks are meant to be it moving, as in flapping, a bit like other pictures of the black flag...

see the way it looks like its waving, i think the way that the black flag band logo shows motion is related to the motion in this one.

Looks like a flapping flag to me.

thats what i meant,

have you read the 3rd comment on the daily mail article?

isnt the logo meant to be someone waving the black flag? or is that just some bs from wikipedia?

my dad picked one up at the smithfield nocturne, considering it was rapha it was pretty cheap i think it was a five or ten pounds with a rapha cap as well, even if it was just a small bag made of thin cotton. i like the fact that its a bag that you can just shove in your pocket when your finished with it, but it would be useless on wet days/carring anything bigger than a 'zine or a wallet.

it not as good as you one le car but

oh shit, YUPPIES!

it looks like its got some sort of rear mech, you can see the pole at the top of the seat post tube on most of the images.

thats my one concern, getting the bikes knicked, we used to leave most of our bikes in the shed unlocked, but then one time some guys came and stole the three best ones in the night, we didnt even realise. but it does look like a good way to keep the bikes dry.

i didnt realise that, i thought they were all pretty much standard apart from the bearings, thanks.

nah, i started listening to a podcast at streatham common and i took it out and stopped it at angel tube, i dont remember pausing it and the podcast was over an hour long so it couldn't have gone onto another one.
but even if you dont pace it i reckon it should only take about 30 mins or so.

have prices gone up or i am i missing somthing on this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JEEP-Comanche-TSI-mountain-discs-bike-dual-suspension_W0QQitemZ190225458167QQihZ009QQcategoryZ33503QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

£80, i thought these sort of bike went for a tenner. it probably weighs a tonne as well.

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BIN £80

approx 42 teeth, so it could be more or less...
if i were you i would build it up, that way you learn new skills as well.

those hubs look nice, but couldnt you just buy a replacment set of their sealed bearings and put them in to a system ex hub and get the same result?

i find it good to know how long a route is gonna take because then you can work out when you need to leave and when you will get to places.

bits of it look ok but other bits are just silly, and it contradicts itself, being a fixed gear to save weight yet having hub brakes?

"The only thing slowing you down on a bike is air, and if you halve the resistance by riding a recumbent, you dramatically increase your speed."

Do recumbants have tyres with zero rolling resistancer now? Doh :)

the rolling resistance isnt halved, but they are so much faster than normal bikes that they were banned from pretty much every tour or race, even on track, in the 1930s because people felt they were too fast.

i saw that, i thought it was funny that they got a messenger who has only been in the job 9 months. i also thought that you could have swapped the fixed gear and sit up and beg pictures and if you didnt aleady know about bikes think that they were the same

Danger Joel does the Streatham - Angel ride in 22 mn. Not me!
i did that once, admittidly i have only done the ride up there once on that bike, but the time i did it only took that long and as i said before, it wasnt 22 exact it was more like 23, but i felt like rounding down.

What bike has he got cos I see a couple of fixed riders going up there(Brixton Hill/Streatham Hill) now n then, I do it in a fairly quick time(love overtaking geared roadbike users :-)) and I've never seen anyone go like stink up there

i did the trip to angel on a geared racing bike in the middle of the afternoon, but normally im on a purple and white fixed(gillott) with risers and white deep vs. i always see some guy on an orange fixed gear going up brixton hill. and i saw a guy in streatham on a black fixed with an orange front wheel and nobrakes (slightly off topic)