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i would like to see an updated picture of ed's girlfriend's bike including her rack.

;)

+1. Ideally with a full load.

I was in an FW Evans the other day (not by choice) and got grumped at for taking my bike in - to a bike shop! I define a good bike shop as one where they notice how fucken awesome my bike is (Cavendish, Putney Cycles, Velorution) and compliment me on it, and a bad shop as one where they just think it's some old steel thing with no gears.

If you were with Heather Mills you could make a fire with one of her legs to keep warm.

Firstly, Edscoble, outside my garage clutching forty notes - nice to meet you, mate...

Also, the bloke who rides the ghost bike must be on here. White everything. Drops, Deep Vs. Seen you twice in two days - Thurs heading north towards HPC, Sat heading east on Oxford St dodging the Xmas peds...

I've eaten prison food. They have about a quid a day to feed the cons on, so the meat pies are pretty much vegan anyway.

Here are some vids that sort of unite the car-love in this thread with the forum's general love for getting through London in a hurry, and blatant RLJ-ing. It's an eighties liver-transplant run from Stansted to a hospital off the Cromwell Road - the first clip is okay but the the last two, once the convoy is into the city, are better.

I had a V8 SD1 for a while - shitty brakes, zero handling, so respect to the five-oh for not stacking it.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Vegans love porridge.

My parents live at the end of the small road opposite the entrance to the racetack, in the a tiny hamlet called Westerton - they only moved there a couple of years back - he was at school with Lord March's dad, and is pretty good mates with him - the Bentley was actually one of his first cars, second hand that he bought in 1944 when they were considered old bangers for next to nothing! He then tracked the same car down a couple of years back, although his is not a blower, unlike the one in the picture.

Inrestingly his mothe was an officer in the french resistance, working covertly as an ambulance woman during the second world war, and flew relief planes from England to France - at the outbreak of the second world war she had a Bugatti Royale, which she used to flee from France as the Germans invaded - as time was running out as she drove north through France, she ran out of money, so drove to the Bugatti Factory and sold the car back to Ettore at Molsheim. In return she got a credit note . . .

Now the factory and the car were destroyed during the second world war, after it was used by the Germans as a staff car, and my family were pretty much ruined by the war which is another long story, but when it was over the French Goverment honoured the credit note that Bugatti had given her, and paid up the full amount as a thank you for her work with the resistance, which allowed her (she was a single mum in a time where there was no such thing as a father giving money for child support) to buy a house and send my father to Uni.

As a result of all this my father has been recently invited to go to the new Bugatti factory, to have a look round, and have a go in a Veyron! With me!! Result!!!

Still wish we had the car though, worht several Mil now!

He is not really a car guy, his thing is planes.

Great tales. Haven't driven a Veyron yet but will in the New Year - it's the only 'big one' I'm missing. F40 and F1 favourites so far. I'll try to remember to PM you before the FoS next year - we should have a fixed-gear race up the hill...

We can end this thread now.

My Parents live on the Goodwood Estate - which is a massive result as i get free entry to all the events and track days through out the year, plus my dad has one of these, which makes attending the revival something really special:

It's not this one, is it?

Where on the estate do they live? Great roads around there - was there on Sunday having a 'bit of a go' around the A285/286...I know LM pretty well - usually go to the season-launch dinner and the Ball, and drive at the Festival - would I know your Dad?

The Festival of Speed rocks. It IS expensive, but it's totally worth it - you'll see a bigger, better selection of properly extraordinary vehicles there than that any other car event in the world - everything from 27-litre aero-engined 1920s racers to modern F1 cars - and you can get right up close to them, and hear/see them in action. Plus you'll randomly bump into your heroes - took a piss next to Jackie Stewart one year. He had to stand a long way back from the urinal.

You'll even get to see Fatbloke in action most years. I'm the one being levered into his racecar with Vaseline on the start line.

In response to an earlier post which I can't be arsed to find, there is one fixed-gear car - the Tesla Roadster. It's certainly single-speed as it only has one gear, but it's kind of fixed too in that when you come off the gas (or current, or dimmer switch, or whatever-the-fuck-it-is electric cars have) the wheels keep the motor turning, turning it into a generator, which recharges the batteries a little.

At £92,000 it's also a horrifically expensive, rebranded product of an otherwise respected, historic British manufacturer (Lotus) so maybe Tony Dafoney had something to do with it...?

I think they look beautiful, and admire your attention to detail, but I also think you maybe think about bicycles a little too much?

Me too, but a long one. I'll take Skate's leftovers.

I appreciate that this might not be the best place to offer this ancient beater, but it has some sentimental value as I built it up sixteen years ago when I first moved to London, and I thought I'd offer it here first as it's more likely to find a buyer who'll look after it and make use of it. God, I sound like a teary-eyed old twat...

Anyway. The frame is a 'Prophete' - no, I've never heard of them either. It's about 22.5in c-t. Saddle in pic is set for me at 6 feet, 32-in inside leg. It's red, and the logos are quite nice, but it's probably made out of gas pipe as the whole thing weighs about nine tonnes. It has nice long dropouts and no downtube shifter braze-ons should you, for any reason, want to 'fix' it. It has mudguard eyes and an extra set for a rack on the rears if you wanted to use it for commuting.

The components are mostly steel with a fine layer of don't-bother-nicking-me surface rust, though this would easily come off with a polish. The rims are 27in, and both wheels are nutted, so marginally less nickable. It has a cottered crankset - remember them? Ten gears, Shimano rear mech, friction thumbshifters on slightly cut-down MTB bars. The brake levers are quite nice - DiaCompe, I think, and very light, not that it makes any difference. Gears and brakes both work pretty well. The saddle has a big yellow paint mark (dry) on the other side, and there are no grips.

If all this sounds relentlessly downbeat, I'm just trying to 'manage your expectations'. It actually rides really nicely, and the steel frame and 27x1.25s make it feel quite plush. It only needs a set of grips. It would make a great pub bike/beater. You wouldn't cry for long if someone nicked it, but they're unlikely to try. Might be good for a mate/colleague thinking about starting to commute, but strapped for cash, or unsure if they're going to like it.

PM me if interested. Collect from Southfields.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180309623181&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

Another likely nicked geared Condor... 'smooth ride' seems to be the giveaway...

Ha! Sorry about that, looks like we were both outbid then, quite a bargain I thought for £80.... oh well, you win some you lose some.... celery

So.. whats this pissed purchase then? c'mon!?

Just taken the pix - will post this arvo. Think minor component for twice the price of that Mercian!

Oh well... I tried but was outbid, was sat at £46 right up until the last seconds, I whacked £70 in but someone else won it for £86... will be nice with a bit of work...

That was me at £46 Toby - my max was £75-ish, but got outbid while lunchtime drinking. Should have gone to a ton, had a plan for it...

So instead I went and made possibly my most unjustifiable cycling purchase ever while mildly pissed. Pix to follow.

@ FBR - The road just off the roundabout which leads onto Old York Road just before the train station. Its completely and utterly my fault, won't be riding on those paved bus stops again.

Thanks a lot for the tip. I'm just about to go up to town that way. if I come off too I'll feel like a proper knob.

I liked Arizona... We went to the Barrett (sp?) Jackson auction there. But yeah, it was stinkin hot!

Bizarre - I went to Barrett-Jackson (or B-J, as they call it) this year too. What are the chances of that on a fixed-gear bicycle website? Did you buy anything? Exchange rate looks a bit less healthy for Brits this year...

@snails - do you go to that awesome bike shop on the south side of Scottsdale? Can't remember the name but it's a little out of town and has a whole separate building devoted to sweet cruisers from Felt, Electra, etc - I could have bought the entire stock, if I could have fitted it in my hold baggage!

Look out for this, if you're into cars too and are around HPC/Belgrave Sq/Park Lane/A4 on Thursday.

It's a very stealthy-looking all-black Ruf-Porsche 911 on German plates. It's fully electric, lithium-ion batteries, 120mph, 200-plus miles range, 0-60mph in 4.5sec, tailpipe emissions free (though the CO2 is just made at the power station...)

Silent, obviously, so watch out, especially when fatbloke is driving it mid-morning...

heh heh heh.... very funny fb.... it's, it's not true though is it? :P

Why not - it's only FOUR GRAND!!!

If it was still two bucks to the pound I'd consider it, but at a buck-fifty it's just a fraction pricey...

Very disappointed he wasn't fixed, either then or now. Looks SO much fucken older - is that what breathing traffic fumes for 20 years will do to us...?

Spent a week in that Mumbai hotel last month too...

That's it, really

That Confente makes me want to remortgage the house... sigh

I'm gonna buy it, knock all that geared shit off it, get it over to Vaz for a respray, whack on some deep V's, risers and Ourys - sorted.

Thanks guys got this for £123.
I'll post some pics when she's cleaned up and stripped bare!

Glad you won. Be nice to her.