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OK here goes, Long time lurker, been in the smoke since Uni in 93 (yes I is old, 38)

You have nothing to worry about on that score. Have a look on the "names and faces to bikes" thread and you'll see a lot of middle-aged men on fashion bikes. A lot of them dress like pubescent hipsters but don't let that fool you.

Thanks for the tips man.

I do about 12miles daily, but do occasional longer (60+) rides. Current bike has finally died, and was looking to get a fix but was worried I wouldn't be able to do longer distances (I'm a student can't afford multiple bikes =P).

Then you should really appreciate fixed; much less maintenance and fewer parts to replace.

Dear lord you two!

What can I say? My bike is bright yellow. It's like driving around with the Chicken Song blaring out of your sound system. Serious isn't an option.

Sup guys, looking into getting a fix, what's the furthest you can sensibly ride on one?

Who wants to ride sensibly? I've been to Brighton on mine, but I don't remember it being a particularly sombre experience.

Don't know what his problem is, the original pic worked for me.

i wish my dad was into cycling even a little bit. can i say im a little bit jealous of that photo

/sadisntit

Have a kid, get him or her into cycling. There are worse reasons for procreating (many of them 40° proof).

As long as cycling keeps me going.

I guess there is quite a contrast if you compared the unfit overweight me of about 5 years ago with fit muscly me (used to do quite a lot of weights) of two years ago to the cyclists body that I'm developing now...

I actually haven't changed weight in about 6 months...I just seem to be getting denser!

You can't win with this kind of thing. My mum freaked when I lost four stone and became convinced I was anorexic, even though I was still carrying a few extra pounds around the middle. Then I switched to strength training, which involved bulking up a little, and she made a few cracks about me having a belly. If you know you're healthy and doing it right, that's what counts.

Someone on a blue and white Fuji with (iirc) a green rim on the rear wheel, heading west along Kensington Road, at the westernmost end of Kensington Gardens, at around 8:30 this morning. I joined that road right behind you at that point but then turned right almost immediately onto Palace Green.

Again, saw almost no cyclists and not a single other fixed bike on my route (Camberwell to Wormwood Scrubs). Wasn't even one other cyclist at the junction by Stockwell Tube, which was eerie.

Good morning to the bloke on the bronze-coloured fixed bike with whom I had a brief chat at the junction of Battersea Park Road and Albert Bridge Road. To answer your question, it's a Schwinn Madison frame but every single other component has now been replaced.

one of my neighbours (proper pikey) had a shed,he used to keep a donkey/pony in there.it went mental one hot summer and kicked the shed to bits broke out and was running round the block terrorising the neighbourhood.i keep my bikes locked safe indoors

To stop them from breaking out and terrorising the neighbours? Good idea.

Is that a vintage Schwinn or one of the new models, reworked? If it's the 2010, there's been some serious work done on it. Lovely bike, either way.

This is the start of some kind of distopian film where gangs of PCP smoking skinhead girls armed with Primark knives and Lidl angle grinders terrorise preening trendies and young professionals.

Please tell me when that goes to DVD.

Jjust now hamsandwich on Brixton high street on his polo bike. Hello.

Intrigued to know the origin of that nick. At my current workplace, they have a regular customer they refer to as Ham Sandwich, on the grounds that he looks like the sort of bloke who would wank into the aforementioned food product.

Somebody on Brixton Road with an orange front rim and a green rear rim, in a white puffa jacket, cycling no hands while he fiddled with his gloves.

Oh, and somebody on a unicycle on Battersea Bridge Road, heading for the bridge. A bloody unicycle. There was some guy in front of him on what looked like a nice blue converted road bike, but I wasn't paying attention to him (sorry, but there was a guy riding a unicycle through the snow).

Hi to the guy riding fixed (nice steel frame, grey or greyish-purple colour) on Battersea Bridge at about 8:45 or 8:50 this morning. Damn few cyclists out at all; you and I were the only fixed riders I saw at all on my route today.

A copper at a set of lights on mile end road. Thought he was stopping RLJers, but nope, stopping cars who hadn't removed ice from their windows so couldnt see properly. Good work.

I know Londoners aren't used to snow but I'm amazed how many of them can't work out that it's important to clean the snow off the roof of their car, not just the windscreen, before setting out. Surely it doesn't require a genius to foresee what will happen if you have to break suddenly with a roof covered in several inches of snow?

And this is me - Brillbrumboy

Ah, oh, right. Your choice of forum name caused me to blink and check twice.

Nice to put some faces to forum names. Will drop by again.

Has anyone their recommendation for an effective but economical bike chain/ strap and lock as I have bought a new bike and will need one ? I am not a member of which but perhaps someone knows a buyer site that would evaluate bike acessories ? Thanks

It's not compulsory to translate your messages into Swahili and back before you post them. People just do that for fun.

Ah, this is probably in the wrong forum. Mods, feel free to move it into Mechanics and Fixing Things. Although, having done some research, I'm probably going to get the Stronglight T-2000 cranks (I have both 130 and 144 BCD chainrings in the box of parts, so can swap back and forth as wanted).

I have a track frame with a rear hub that gives a 42mm line. Problem is, the bb and cranks don't match - Sugino 103mm bb with JIS square tapers and FSA Vero cranks which are sitting too wide because they want an ISO taper. What's my best route to fixing this? Replacing the BB or the cranks?

That's the sort of thing only a German would do :-)

Actually, two rival academic movements tried to do just that to English. One group wanted to graft made-up Latin and Greek-derived words into the language, to make it more like the classical ideal and make pretend that we were the natural inheritors of Greco-Roman culture. The other group wanted to return it to a Germanic purity that had probably never existed. The first group won, mostly. If they hadn't, Stephen Fry wouldn't have a cushy job arguing about the plural of Octopus on BBC2.

Smart product. First they sell to people who want some extra security without the hassle, then they sell again to the smarter thief, who'll make his money back the first time he finds some nice wheels with these on.