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General Category => Freewheeling => Velo Fixe => Topic started by: rogerzilla on 29 September, 2009, 06:45:44 am

Title: London fixies
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 September, 2009, 06:45:44 am

The craze doesn't seem to have abated yet.  About 1/4 of bikes were fixies, more in outer areas.  The most sawn-off bars I saw were about 10" wide, which must have made handling "interesting".  Lots of slack chains.  One change from a few years ago is that most people use lights after dark now.

Off-topic, I saw two peculiar belt-drive folders with small wheels around Piccadilly Circus - what are they?

Title: Re: London fixies
Post by: Charlotte on 29 September, 2009, 08:16:29 am

Stridas?

Title: Re: London fixies
Post by: red marley on 29 September, 2009, 05:45:43 pm

My impression is that a larger proportion of them now have single speed freewheels. I still can't see a mini-barred-anodized-chained-coloured-rimmed-clips-and-vansed machine without thinking "clown bike" though.

Title: Re: London fixies
Post by: clarion on 29 September, 2009, 08:25:59 pm

I was going to comment on that too.  You see lots of 'fixed' on the road, and they stop pedalling...

Title: Re: London fixies
Post by: GrahamG on 30 September, 2009, 01:02:55 pm

A friend of mine refers to it a the 'fixed wheel apocalypse'