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And I've still never been spotted!

If you're ever stopped at the lights (which I know you do) at the Stockwell Road junction, I'm the guy on the yellow fixed road bike, crossing from Stockwell Road to Binfield road or vice versa, while swearing loudly at all the bastards who didn't stop when you did.

O Cantinho is a great place to eat. Used to work two minutes walk from it.

The weather has scared the fair weather cyclists of the streets; the remaining ones seem, as far as I have seen, to have a significantly higher average road sense and IQ. Fewer cycling morons on the road, more room to deal with them. Liking the weather.

^ id like to see how he uses those drops, with them pointing upwards like that! NUTS!

Nuts is what those bars are going to pierce, if he has to stop quickly and put one foot down.

The ugliest bike I saw while in Berlin (and up against some strong competition). Didn't see any ugly fixed or single-speed bikes, cause almost nobody was riding them.

I generally prefer to be overtaking on the right, but sometimes you have a simple choice between sliding by the static traffic in the gap on the left or just waiting. If it isn't a lethal choice (e.g. the vehicle on the right is a bus or HGV) and the wait is likely to be a long one, I'll take that choice.

I commute 22 miles a day fixed - and there's really not much difference at all between going fixed and geared.

I'm a bit slower riding fixed than I am on a geared bike, and because the pedals are always rotating you can't squeeze through tight gaps between cars and the curb - but that's a bad habit you're better off without anyway.

You can, although sometimes it means the left foot coming out of the clips to kick off the curb/lamppost/whatever.

I've found that cycling geared or fixed makes absolutely no difference to my speed commuting across London (17 mile round trip). So I commute fixed.

I agree that some Newbs get too much of a pasting, and i know people who have been put off joining by this, but the forum to me really is like a bunch of mates, with differing opinions, but drawn together by the love of bikes, sitting in a pub and putting the world to rights.

It's been said several times in this thread now that anybody who is put off by the forum should go to the pub and see the real people behind it. It's worth considering that if the forum puts them off, they're even less likely to go to the pub and risk exposing themselves in person (and maybe their bikes) to the ridicule and hostility they fear attracting online.

I think I saw an LFGSS cap in Lewisham by Matalan this morning about 7.30am. Big and beardy*.

*both he and I

You'd have to be a bit of a nutter to nick a copper's bike though.

There are some for whom that would be an irresistible target.

Ouch. Anything salvageable from that, Russell?

I should say hello, having registered back in June. Been commuting (and generally cycling around) on a Schwinn Madison since early June (since when the wheels, stem and bars have all been upgraded).

Oh, and I naturally had a look around to see what people thought about the Madison as a bike and found this. Now, I do live in Brixton, my Madison is yellow and I sometimes wear a yellow top but that wasn't me, honest ;) Didn't even have the bike in April.