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They are 'going up' on the Sunday Times Style magazine 'style barometer' thing, so will soon be seen being ridden by poncy fashionista PR's struggling to get their Belanciaga gladiator boots into the toestraps. Possibly.

There's an ace mash-up (so early noughties, I know) of Sweet Home Alabama & Country Grammar.

It rocks on my commute.

that's unlucky, mongrel...

my mate did one next to a van full - all riot-geared up. Twat.

stupidpony It's thirty quid for not having eyes in your arse, mind you it's hardly entrapment what with all that gorgeous lime green fluro.

Word.

If you can't see them all fluoro'd up, you're not safe to go through a red anyway.

a few more than fiddy dorrahs worth of arrospoke on display there!

Red Coppi with green deep v's going along embankment crossing top of Chelsea bridge this morning.

Lovin the clown.

Happy & scary.

But also like the plain logo one.

Superprecise The Observer
BBC
...?

Daily Mail
Sunday Times Style section 'barometer' featured the Alta bike..."Cor, what a stunner. With the requisite single-speed gear action"

mashton I showed one to Dale the other night on the way back from Westie (grrr) drinks.

If you're heading East down the hill from Notting Hill gate, toward Oxford street: as you swing aroud Lancaster Gate tube, don't come back onto the main road onto Marbkle Arch - take the little left turn before the main road and then follow it straight ahead, left at mini roundabout and then immediate right. This leads you over Edgeware road, to Manchester Square, then to Wigmore street and on to Tottenham Court Road. Much faster than mucking about with Marble Arch / Oxford street etc: West to East of Oxford circus at high speed :-)

Oh and sprinting into Manchester Square and flowing round it to emerge on the other side is sooooo much fun.

+1 - True dat.

So - is this definitely the 5th now?

Arse. I'm away that weekend. I really doing v badly at actually getting on these blimmin rides.

Still - won't get hit by the curse I suppose.

Hey JayGee64 - black pearson was me.

Your Surly was still looking nice and shiny - praps I need to give mine a bit of a clean.

Where d'you come in from / to? Will lookout & say hi.

+1 to all the above.

fatboyralph i dont think cycle lanes on the footpath is a good idea.
See Queenstown road, up by Chelsea Bridge for details. Cycle path goes through a bus-stop - between the bus & shelter. Idiotic.

RPM it might sound ungrateful, but in the long run the money needs spending on educating people to share the roads we have got, not building inadequate and baffling partitions.

AMEN to that.

fatbloke I can't join you this weekend but I'm desperate to get down there at some point. Which are the best trails? I have the Dorking OS map and most of them seem to centre on Leith Hill Tower - is that the best place to start?

That's what I did. Followed a few bridleways up, then coming down keep an eye out for trails off the sides. The Diary of a Mountain Biker site has some good directions. There are a few marked trails around as well (see Redland's site ).
With the map you can't go far wrong (probably!)

I had only one tube patch, so had to sit & wait for some kind folk to come past the 2nd time. Luckily was on one of the busier trails. Note to self - be better prepared next time.

Was down there last week, but can't get out this week sadly.

Twas muddy. And full of runners doing a 1/2 marathon up Leith Hill.
Ace though - (apart from 2 punctures).

somewhat predictably: currently reading 'The Escape' by Matt Seaton

am also being advised to read 'Bringing up Boys' by some bloke...it's about bringing up boys apparently.

Awwwwwww no.

This was the thing I was most looking forward to this month and now I can't make it. Grrr.

Hope will see some folk @ the Sheldon ride instead.
[grumble..not as much fun..grumble]

Folk over for dinner tonight - too much red wine, I imagine.

Sat - Look after kids (=watch rugby) while wife goes shopping.

Sun - (looks like wet & windy, but rare opportunity to go...) offroading round Leith Hill.

...the summer of Numpties.

Well, if the last couple of days are anything to go by, the wobbly fair weather dithering asshats are starting to come out and the roads are going to get v busy when it gets properly warm.

I know it's all biking & it should be all good & everyone has to start sometime etc etc, but really GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY.
The horrendous grinding & creaking noise of 7 months of rust being forced round the drivetrain, the puffing red-faced gurning needed to power an apollo 'full-suss' with 2inch knobbly tyres along at 12mph - it drives me mad.

...and Yes, you can fit through that gap.

Give the halfords bike to work people a call. They were surprisingly helpful when I spoke to them. Couldn't get me a Charge, but could (& did) get a Touche. With Pearson (& I think Condor) you can spec up the bike you want then fill in the halfords form & it gets paid directly. I doubt you can get anything completely custom though, but it would be worth phoning around a bit.

a - nope
b - nope
c - yep
d - yep, mountainous ones
e - a bit. Punk-lite I guess. Have recently digitized some of my vinyl & been re-listening to SLF - Nobody's Heros & The Damned Black Album. Makes the commute fly by!

AlexB [quote]villa-ru
..and Fridays...

was that you I saw on Friday at that stupid junction by Clapham Common near the Tescos in Balham? I was the guy on the green and white Dave Russell with the Carradice saddle bag.[/quote]

Hi - indeed that will have been me. Yay - spotted! (Not on the coolest of bikes mind.)

Bah. My dads' only about 5'9". He's not gonna beat up many people. My Father-in-law was 6'4" though, so he would've been in the mix. Before he died.

Looks like I'm on my own out there...

and there is the Touche for £550, from Pearson Cycles in Sutton*.

(*nb - buying one can involve visiting Sutton high st - one of the most depressing places on earth)

If you can use one of the 'bike to work' schemes you can usually only buy complete bikes, and I know quite a few people getting a first ss/fg bike this way.

well 48-18 here, 170 cranks.

Only 1 skid patch - due to only one skid so far (apart from one in my pants) as I approached the rear of a bus at unadvisable speed).

Your Fixie makes you look Phat.