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    good wasn't he?!

    ...and to optimo tonight!

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      CommentAuthorCuppa T
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2008
     

    is anyone down for a ride on like 29th mid day in Glasgow?

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    can't do i'm afraid. i'll be coming back from leeds that day. if anyone is still around later on in the day i'm up for a quick pint but i won't have a bike.

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2008 edited
     

    Spotted the dust cap off one of my MKS Sylvans coming off and falling into the Clyde while I was cycling at speed. £1.99 from SJS , but annoying none the less.

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      CommentAuthorSoweto888
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2008
     

    A tall blonde*, with long-ish hair, glasses and a Moser, turning into Byres Road from Great Western Road, last night about seven.

    * Twas a guy, so don't go looking for her - I mean, him. :-)

    • CommentAuthorMcduck
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2008
     

    I saw a guy on a white bike, chopped straight bars at Finnieston on Monday (yesterday) around 1620. Of course, I don't know what any of you look like so I've probably just pointed out the editor or whoever runs this show -doh!

    McDuck

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2008
     

    Did the guy have green tyres and a slack chain? He passed me this morning when I was taking it easy through traffic.

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      CommentAuthorrusty
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2008
     

    Mcduck:Of course, I don't know what any of you look like so I've probably just pointed out the editor or whoever runs this show.

    Am I the editor? I quite like the idea of that. I try not to edit much. Just the casing of the thread titles and maybe make them a bit more descriptive if they're ambiguous.

    I ride a matte black Fuji Track with drop bars so I doubt it was me. Also I'm down south until next week so it really couldn't have been me. We'll sort out a meeting once I, Editor in Chief, am up. ;)

    • CommentAuthorMcduck
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2008
     

    euan:Did the guy have green tyres and a slack chain? He passed me this morning when I was taking it easy through traffic.

    I couldn't see too well, but if he had green tyres I'd have chased after him to offer cash for them. I'm currently working on a new project and green may feature. Never new such things existed. I'm green with envy etc

    McDuck

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2008
     

    Well they weren't exactly a nice green. But green none the less.

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2008
     

    Spotted a nice gentleman on decalless Surly on Argyle Street outside the Marriot. He kindly gave me a draft along the Quay and down Govan Road. Much appreciated, that headwind is always a killer.

    • CommentAuthorSmout
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008
     

    I pass through the mighty borough of Finnieston everyday and see the same guy on the white frame and cut bars most days... Can confirm the tyres 'aint green and I doubt the chain is slack. The boy uses cleats...

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      CommentAuthorCuppa T
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2008
     

    i SPOTTED this in a market i passed today....

    and bought it from the guy for £7!!!
    so i got home and stuck it straight on ebay!!
    brooks saddle

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    Christ at 1st i thought that was gonna go on your fuji! Should sell for a packet, you can tell its pretty new coz of the badge, they took out the "england" to make the "brooks" more prominent just a couple years ago i think.

    While im here, spotted a guy getting onto a green bike on one of the bridges over the m77 as i drove to work today, dint get a good look at the bike so cant be sure it was fixed or even ss but the rider got on in true fixie style, leg over the handlebars. bike was kind of green, maybe sort of bianchi green? I was tanking it along at the time.

    • CommentAuthorMcduck
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
     

    I know that man! I shall tell him of his 'spotting' and hopefully that will be enough to have him finally stop fannying around and a buy a laptop. Good work.

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2008
     

    ACH spotted me coming up Argyle Street onto Queen Street. I was a wee bit confused to what was going on at the time.

    • CommentAuthorACH
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     

    Haha I spotted the Mercian. Confusion all around, I am hungover.....

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      CommentAuthorrusty
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     

    I don't think I could stop anyone in the street. Even if I did recognise the bike from here. It'd just feel too weird.

    • CommentAuthorACH
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     

    i have no shame ;-)

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     

    Aye it was a shock with a wtf how does this guy know my name.

    Earlier I had spotted a girl with short blonde hair lycraed up and ready to cross the squinty bridge. Bike was white and fixed but I didn't catch the make.

    I seem to be seeing at least one new fixed or singlespeed rider a day but rarely the same person twice.

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      CommentAuthorrusty
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     

    euan:I seem to be seeing at least one new fixed or singlespeed rider a day but rarely the same person twice.

    I have the same thing. Never see the same fixed twice. We'll have to put a stop to that.

    • CommentAuthorACH
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     

    It would have felt rude to not say hello. Taking it from the forum to the street.....

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      CommentAuthorrusty
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     

    That's good to hear. Now that I'm back in Glasgow I'll be pushing to get some real-world fixed-gear socialising sorted out.

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    good work-

    pencil me in for something in november!

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    Spotted - a sweet pair of bikes outside the Xscape today, a black n white Condor and a yellow Dave Yates. Think the Condor was fixed and the Dave Yates free, both had a smattering of well nice components. Couldn't stand and stare too long as i was late back from my break, if the owners are on here and were in the centre, i was the tall speccy spiky haired guy working in Costa.

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    And today, an burnt orangey colour bike being ridden by a gent in a kilt! outside Central Station. Looked nice but dint getta good look as was quite astounded by the riders dress sense.

    • CommentAuthorMcduck
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2008
     

    Ha. I met the kilt guy last week, a friend of a friend, fittingly looking for a sporrran and a 'doublet' in the Shelter on GWR.

    He plays the pipes for a living apparently.

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    Spotted: a slightly drunk bmxer leaving Sleazys on friday evening. ooh err!

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
     

    Spotted about 4 fixed/free riders today. I don't know if it was the time of day I was running at but they were everywhere. One was a guy geared up for a training run.

    • CommentAuthorGeorge
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2008
     

    One very wet rider at the hurlet about 0830 hrs this morning riding a vintage fixed of some description.
    Obviously dedicated

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    mechanical_vandal:Spotted: a slightly drunk bmxer leaving Sleazys on friday evening. ooh err!

    that sounds like norman. was he a big guy with short, fair-ish hair? if so, he works there.

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    lol it was actually me. spotted today tho, guy pushing a chrome charge down the platform in central, just got off the neilston train and a light blue bike with rider sitting beside in george sq, possibly a curryer?

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      CommentAuthorGetafix
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     

    Seen a lot recently.
    Saw a guy in the Ivy on a Bowery along the canal near Torance during the week.
    Saw a tall chap on a Green/Yellow Eddy Merckx next to SECC at about 1:30 pm today.
    Saw a brown Mercian with barberpole seattube crossing the squinty bridge about 5:00pm assume it was Euan. Was stuck in football traffic, never saw the drive train just caught a glimpse of bike.

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2008
     

    Yeah that was me just before I almost ran straight into the front of a bus. Apparently Brand Street becomes one way on Ibrox match days and the council neglected to tell me/put up signs.

    • CommentAuthor1903
    • CommentTimeSep 16th 2008
     

    Fit like? New to the singlespeed community and have been perusing the forum, glad to see I'm not the only one leering at bike porn on the streets of Glasgow. Anyone else been wrongly accused of looking at men on bikes by their girlfriends?

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeSep 16th 2008
     

    1903, don't have to be a Dandy Don do you?

    • CommentAuthor1903
    • CommentTimeSep 16th 2008
     

    Haha, yeah. Yourself? Stand free...

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeSep 16th 2008
     

    Aye I am.

    • CommentAuthor1903
    • CommentTimeSep 16th 2008 edited
     

    Just spied a chap on a fluoro yellow ss with fluoro pink and green rims on University Avenue. Mmm, Nu Rave.

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      CommentAuthorkrakow
    • CommentTimeSep 17th 2008
     

    A black Langster with a rear puncture being wheeled into a just-opening Billy Bilsland Cycles at about 9:15am this morning.

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      CommentAuthorkrakow
    • CommentTimeSep 19th 2008
     

    I saw the kilt-wearing guy with the metallic orange bike today, wheeling it up Buchanan Street mid-afternoon. I noted the bike make at the time but have completely forgotten it now.

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      CommentAuthorrusty
    • CommentTimeSep 20th 2008
     

    Yesterday at about 6:20pm I saw someone walking up Sheilds Road with a Dawes frame with bullhorns and a GFGSS spoke card in the back wheel. Made me very proud.

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    Last night, about 2am, house party on Kersland street, harassing someone with a fuji track 08 with front and rear brakes (bmx ones I think). Sorry if it was any of you guys....

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      CommentAuthorCuppa T
    • CommentTimeSep 20th 2008
     

    rusty:Yesterday at about 6:20pm I saw someone walking up Sheilds Road with a Dawes frame with bullhorns and a GFGSS spoke card in the back wheel. Made me very proud.

    what card was it?

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      CommentAuthorrusty
    • CommentTimeSep 20th 2008
     

    The lockring with the map in it.

    • CommentAuthoreuan
    • CommentTimeSep 22nd 2008
     

    Spotted a chrome Peugeot conversion with Keirin bars untapped, brakeless and a seat at an angle like this \ on Univeristy Avenue yesterday afternoon/

    • CommentAuthorMcduck
    • CommentTimeSep 22nd 2008 edited
     

    Ha, spotted! I was the fool walking the Dawes up Shields Road. Like a tit.

    My new wheels were too narrow for normal rim tape and so took the advice of LBS to use electrical gaffer tape. What-a-mistake-a-to-make-a. The eyelets had a field day, shredding tube after tube. Chain also broke fannying about up in the botanics having had to pinch a few dodgy links off my old chain whip earlier. A whore of a day all round.

    Perpetual punctures now happily a thing of the past.

    Glad the spokecard brought a smile to someone's boat race though. And thanks again to Merak for their provision. Top gadgy!

    Mcduck

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      CommentAuthorSoweto888
    • CommentTimeSep 27th 2008
     

    Will the man on the blue track frame who has been spotted on more than one occasion riding up and down Great Western Road on the pavement please identify himself? :-)

    • CommentAuthorMcduck
    • CommentTimeSep 28th 2008 edited
     

    Spotted a young lady no less on Victoria Road on Saturday at the Somerfield. Didn't clock the details (isn't being a lassie detail enough). Think she was fixed. Actually, it isn't as I spotted lass another bombing down Gibson street with blonde dreads and SPDs (I think) on Thursday.

    Lovely as the old Brompton Lady Sovereigns are with their baskets full of fruit and whatnot, nothing finer than the sight of a few sisters out and about on the real deal!

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      CommentAuthorSoweto888
    • CommentTimeSep 28th 2008
     

    Mcduck: Actually, it isn't as I spotted lass another bombing down Gibson street with blonde dreads and SPDs (I think) on Thursday.

    I saw her a couple of times last week. I know she's trying to earn a living, so speed is of the essence, but the way she rides just makes it harder for everyone else. Cutting in front of cars, scaring the shit out of drivers by appearing out of nowhere, running reds by hopping onto the pavement... It all builds up the hate for folk on bikes.

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