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Just joined. I saw a comment talking about a guy on a red bike with a white helmet being antisocial (not giving a nod). Probably me on my orange Not a Mercian wearing a helmet after a series of bad crashes. I'm not antisocial may have just missed the guy flying by. I'm seeing more and more riders out on fixeds and I usually always give a nod. I think it's important, a nod always brightens up my day.
I know the guy on the Rizla and often get him in to town and back in the evening. Couriering may seem a cool profession but imagine 50 miles a day in searing heat or horizontal icy rain. I managed a fortnight before jacking it in ten years ago. I tip my hat to all these guys and gals.
I ride time trials in Auldhouse and sometimes use my fixed for a laugh. I think one of these Rollapaluza sort of evenings would be great in Glasgow. Anyone know a pub that may be supportive?
Nice to speak to you all anyway. See I'm not antisocial!!!
Have a look at: http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/june/BryanCarroll.htm http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2004/g/carroll.htm
ive seen the 'not a mercian' frame locked up outside oran mor
I've seen the 'not a mercian' on fixed gear gallery before. I hadn't seen your Mercian though. I didn't know that the Common Wheel would sell frames, I thought they insisted on doing complete builds, nice frame for £50.
I did buy it as a complete bike with old Weinmann brakes, steel wheels with gubbed spokes, atrophied rubber tyres, cotterred cranks... So I upgraded parts - the bottom bracket stripped the frame after about six months so I had to fit a second hand Mavic threadless. The Mavic bearings have stripped recently and I searched all over the internet including bearings firms for the correct size. I've had no luck and my bike now runs with a crap YST which will last a year if I'm lucky. I'd like to hear from anyone with a Mavic or the bearings for sale.
I see the blond girl and her extremely narrow cut bars every morning around Stow College and always say hello she seems to be a really nice person. I see loads of guys out there now on fixeds including new models like Specialized, Genesis, Charge and I like the Lemond that I saw recently etc... There also seems to be a lot of old steel frames with horizontal dropouts and gear hangers. I believe our own personalities are expressed through the set up of our infitely diverse and imaginitive fixeds. I'm now expressing my squareness linked to advancing years through full SKS mudguards to keep me arse dry over the winter.
Yesterday (New Years Day), early afternoon, on the road between Lennoxtown and Kirkintilloch: an older guy on a bright orange what I assume to be fixed.
I've seen him a few times in that neck of the woods, always doing a good clip, but he's always going in the opposite direction to myself, so I've not had a chance to give more than a nod and a shouted greeting.
i think i spotted mr cuppa t on the 31st. crossing sauchiehall street wearing a blue bobble hat.
I passed a guy on Belmont Street heading towards Great Western Road on the 31st about 20:40. Didnae get a good look at the bike cause it was a bit dark and I was knackered. Still getting back into full on riding and with a cold ain't the best.
Nodded to a guy with some mad hair and rolled up jeans as I passed him on the Squinty Bridge. Matt black fixed with no decals. Only the second fixed rider I've seen since I've stopped riding singlespeed.
Also, riding fixed is the cure to the common cold.
johnnyhotdog:i think i spotted mr cuppa t on the 31st. crossing sauchiehall street wearing a blue bobble hat.
that was me, im sure...
thanks.
Fella waiting at junction near Skypark on a Bob Jackson... Waiting a the junction to head up to Charing Cross..?
I spotted a couple of guys (not together) both in commuter uniform (black bottom half, hi-viz yellow top half).
Both on Maryhill Road between Science Park and the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Tuesday morning about 8:30. One had a mahoosive pack on his back.
guty this morning passing skypark going down finnieston street wearing commuter uniform (black bottom half, hi-viz yellow top half) as getafix called it above. also white helmut on a lovely looking blue pearson with silver mudgaurds. no idea if fixed or ss.
this morning ooutside india quay restaurant on finnieston street - a guy with shaggy black hair on a lemond filmore ss with no gloves on (must of been freezing mate)
Saw a guy at 9 o clock Friday night rolling westwards down Argyle Street at Finnieston with Pink Vs front and back. Looked like an off the peg job. Chopped straight bars I think. No further details. Might have had short dark hair.
krakow:Yeah, I've seen the Rizla bike many times - does anyone know the owner? I saw him stopped outside the GOMA the other week for a coffee and read of the paper and though I stood about to admire the bike a little I didn't go up and say anything as I thought it would be incongruous since I wasn't on my own bike at the time.
Hello Krakow yeah i know the owner of that Blue Rizla bike,or at least i did a long time ago,the owner goes by the name of Ped,he lives in a small dwelling on the edge of the Jundland wastes,the bike i believe is a FORT track frame,aluminium in construction,miche crank 47t /17t rear cog,mavic wheels built by master Gow/wheel craft,Milton on campsie,old school racer bars upside down and cut down to size,Armadillo 700*25.tyres.Dirt harry brake lever/Shimano Sora brake.Fizik Arione saddle.Think he found his decals on ebay,http://www.decals4less.co.uk/
He's is fairly friendly and approachable,im sure he would be up for a talk if confronted,although i would possibly be forearmed with a yum yum/or bun of equivelant delicousness. i think he is a courier although he's probabilly forgotten that now, it was such a long time ago when he started down that road,i think he was planning another career but time passed by and he forgot what it was.
He's been stopped many times in the street and asked about his bikes,quite often by venerable men,who once rode fixed Flying scots,mercians and the like in their day before their spines became to crooked,the only people who he wont give the time time of day to is chuggers as they once saw his bike being bolt croppered away, out side Borders and didnt have the bottle to confront said neds/c*nts.
Anyway young Krakow ride safe my boy....see you on the road.
I think i spotted and was spotted by Mr. Cuppa T today - we were both taking advantage of an amber light.
im afraid that wasn't be johnny, i haven't been out on my bike in a few days.
conn artist (I think). johnnyhotdog and I were on Focus bikes cycling up Maryhill Road on Saturday morning at roughly 9:15am. Blue look frame.
rusty:conn artist (I think). johnnyhotdog and I were on Focus bikes cycling up Maryhill Road on Saturday morning at roughly 9:15am. Blue look frame.
yeah that was me! spotted at last. i was just out for wee blast round glasgow before the weather turned. i think when you passed (guy in red and one in black?) i was tinkering with my headset (steerer needs about 1mm or 2 cut off it and makes a knocking sound somehtimes). did you also see the guy going into town on one of those old style french bikes with the beret on at a juanty angle?
conn artist:Did you also see the guy going into town on one of those old style french bikes with the beret on at a juanty angle?
We can't have passed him. If we had I'd definitely have noticed.
rusty:
conn artist:Did you also see the guy going into town on one of those old style french bikes with the beret on at a juanty angle?We can't have passed him. If we had I'd definitely have noticed.
it could only of been about a minute before you passed me if that poss even 30 seconds or so. maybe it was because of the speed you an mr hotdog were going at that you didnae see him...was quite an interesting site at the back of nine on a saturday morning in glasgow. think he may of been a postie as he did have a royal mail style shoulder bag and was in navy blue gear.
Think i might have spotted Cuppa T's bike today, locked up in Gordon St. Got white grips on now?
Spotted a Lemond Fillmore locked up outside Sainsburys on Buchanan Street. The second bike I've seen in Glasgow that is fixed, no front brake but a rear brake. Why bother?
maybe they cant skid stop and miss the buzz of pulling a skid. i dont have rear brake on my which is a bit dodgy i know but do miss doing the odd skid like a wee kid.
few spots today -
1. - quite tidy wee brunette girl with massive courier bag, pink skate helmet and blue terry dolan bike at caledonian uni today.
2. -also a black genesis flyer locked up there also
3.- guy on a converted mountain bike with disc brakes and tensioner on suachiehall street at about half eleven.
mechanical_vandal:Think i might have spotted Cuppa T's bike today, locked up in Gordon St. Got white grips on now?
not me.... (as im sure you were made aware of last night)
All of you.
Last night.
Ha!
spotted last night, loads of shite fixed/singlespeeds chained up outside the big slope. Looked like a fan dan convention was going on or something
i want to see someone be able to do a backwards circle by next week.
giant bowery locked up outside dales. single speed.
Spoke to and, fingers crossed, recruited a guy on George Street just now cycling home in the rain. Chatted with him while paused at a couple of sets of lights and let him know about the forum and our wee ride & meet-up last night. Hopefully he liked the idea and can track us down (I didn't have my spoke cards on me). Can't remember the bike, might have been a Bob Jackson?
S.P.O.T.T.E.D.
planet of the apes/Gyro captain(mad max 2)type character,spotted Cadogen Wednesday morning 10am riding Green, single speed, Golden Vagina coloured, Racer, poss Trek 1000, from around 2000-2002AD. Combats,bandana,ww2 goggles,more neclaces than MR T,more braclets than Jack Sparrow,side burns in the replica style of Noddy Holder,rings and assorted other things,made a strange glugging noise as he passed,think he is an actor,sure i have seen him on soap operas,looked like he was going backwards he was moving that slow,but i was burning the midnight oil last night so maybe it was just me.
Quite an in-depth description. I love it!
Rizzler:S.P.O.T.T.E.D.
planet of the apes/biggles on the piss type charecter,spotted Cadogen Wednesday morning 10am riding Green, single speed, Golden Vagina coloured, Racer, poss Trek 1000, from around 2000-2002AD. Combats,bandana,ww2 goggles,more neclaces than MR T,more braclets than Jack Sparrow,side burns in the replica style of Noddy Holder,rings and assorted other things,made a strange glugging noise as he passed,think he is an actor,sure i have seen him on soap operas,looked like he was going backwards he was moving that slow,but i was burning the midnight oil last night so maybe it was just me.
i know him to speak to....stuart is his name (friend of a friend.) unfortunatley, due to his......acoutrements......he doesn't seem to wash very often......
often found in the Variety bar in the evenings/weekends.
Rizzler:
.....sure i have seen him on soap operas,.....
Ha ha. I saw him on River City. (I was chanel hopping, honest)
I lived round the corner from him when I was a kid, was in the same class as his wee brother Gordon.
Spotted a guy on a dark fixie lime green velocity rims.
Dumbarton road 1ish, gave a nod.
Dickie:Spotted a guy on a dark fixie lime green velocity rims.
Dumbarton road 1ish, gave a nod.
was he a really tall guy with real short hair? if so i see him a lot...
Not sure about hair, had a hat on
he was tall.
Spotted: Black Track bike with Pink Grips and chrome track ends. Locked outside The Halt bar.
spotted outside bloc on bath street today about 4ish - burgandy old steel frame, leather saddle chrome bars. possible brakeless.
9:55pm - 21/01/09 - Byres Road / Great Western Road
White Flyer with rider wearing long black coat. Zipped accross Great Western Road with a nice wee gesture to the drivers. A brave move if I may say so myself. Not one I'd rush to do.
10:05am - 22/01/09 - Eglinton Toll
Fluro jacket man with Endura tights on a Kona SS/Fixed.
some douche this morning on a normal geared town bike. riding with the forks facing the wrong way making the mudgaurds on the front of the wheel instead of under the frame of the bike. his brakes and bars were facing the right way tho!! also when he made it onto the squnity bridge he tried to pull away and his pedal came out. not sure if it sheared off or just unscrewed. i was trying not to kill myself laughing at the time...
unlucky
Hilarious.
I passed two fixed riders at the footpath down by the Tall Ship last night and then another one just coming over the Squinty bridge this morning. Usually see that guy though.
conn artist:some douche this morning on a normal geared town bike. riding with the forks facing the wrong way making the mudgaurds on the front of the wheel instead of under the frame of the bike. his brakes and bars were facing the right way tho!! also when he made it onto the squnity bridge he tried to pull away and his pedal came out. not sure if it sheared off or just unscrewed. i was trying not to kill myself laughing at the time...
i think i've seen that locked up on great western road outside Aladdin's before
Few nice bikes today, orangey single/fixed somewhere...was walking about with friends and just remember seeing it but cant recall the detail. Could have been bagpipe guy's bike.
Burgandy BJ or similar with cream headtube.
Chrome conversion with blue rims bottom of union st heading out of town. Rider looked like a courier type?
Oh aye and i seen Rizla guy too, cant remember where that was either but i did see him.
Maybe i should get my memory checked?
Last night at the GFT for the 8:20pm screening of Milk (an amazing film, by the way) a couple both on SS/fixed, locking the bikes to the railings outside. A single-geared union!
Saw a guy with a black frame and pink deep Vs with pink grips on chopped down flat bars. brakeless. Outside Nice n Sleazys
That's got to be the same guy I spotted back in October (page 3 of this thread, October 29th 2008). Snazzy choice of rims.