This looks fun, does anyone know..
a) a decent framebuilder
b) a decent wheelbuilder
c) someone daft enough to go on the back
(Picture stolen fom Milano Fixed)
Double Cross
Fri, Oct 29, 2010 09:13
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Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he’s not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he’s not doing either of those he’s pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he’s agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don’t He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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Xenophon2 13 minutes ago
Can't do any of those things either. But hey, like you, I can ride a double century and leave for work the day after without feeling like someone threw me under a bus. That's got to count for something.
chrisonabike 20 minutes ago
OTOH if the local yoof were tearing about causing bother on emotorbikes I wouldn't be shocked. But doesn't that call for the police, and in an ideal world for something for the kids to do, rather than a cycle ban?
chrisonabike 23 minutes ago
Your reminder that Spalding is in the flatness of Lincolnshire, in a drier part of the UK, and is a town of about 1km in diameter. Looking again at the streets on Streetview I can see that cyclists are clearly the biggest threat to the town centre. And to hardy shoppers braving Critical Mass mobs as they dash from the large carpark in the centre of the Sheep Market across a street 3 lanes wide to the nearest charity shop, kebabery or vape emporium.
chrisonabike 33 minutes ago
@ROOTminus1 alas not only are there tons of people who cycle daily who aren't on Strava or similar (like myself)... ... but there certainly are "I am a cyclist myself" types who *are* keen Stavaphiles. Some of whom might be delighted to ban cyclists from all the routes *they* drive to get to their ride. Or at least look down on any "8 to 80" cycling improvements as either encouraging the incompetent or as the thin end of the wedge to remove their right to cycle on the road.
jaymack 39 minutes ago
"I'm a keen shopper myself...". That's a great line, thank you.
Mr Blackbird 40 minutes ago
Topping the bill is David Argue. A perfect name for a reckless rebellious BMX cyclist. No doubt, he got the girl when she realised there was a complex, deep thinking, kind person behind that wheelieing, skid to a halt, brash, devil may care exterior. The closing scene. The girl has just revealed that to DA's character that she is expecting his baby. "But your parents hate me. I'm from the wrong end of town." "No, they will grow to accept you into the family when they know you like I do!" "I need to prove myself. I've gotta do the BMX jump over the HV substation " "No, don't! Our baby needs it's father." "I gotta hit the pedals. See you on the other side honey." The final shot is of the girl's parents sitting in their drawing room, listening to Pucini's Senza Mamma, while sipping a dry sherry. The lights go dim and the gramophone slows to a baritone slur.
Aluminium can 48 minutes ago
Isle of Man TT is practically synonymous with Road Safety, so it's no surprise they're keen to keep a clean sheet of zero road deaths.
Mr Blackbird 54 minutes ago
Lots of keen cyclists aren't on Strava etc. A more reliable indicator would be to present an up to data photo of their bike. Many "keen cyclist myself" merchants' photos will be of a bike with a seized chain, two flat tyres standing in the shed with two rotting deckchairs, a neglected trampoline and half a bag of compost. stacked in front of it.
jaymack 1 hour ago
You can't pull a wheelie? Riding hands free evades you? They signal a largely misspent youth and aren't anything to be proud of...much!
1 thought on “Double Cross”
Put me down for c)
Reckon
Put me down for c) 😉
Reckon we could get it sorted for the HONC?