Typical London Tonight reporting

[Shimano105]

Great for the souplesse and tree trunk thighs as well. Rode one for 5 years now.

[BoredBloke]

BMX bikes didn't have any gears

The Grifter did didn't it? My mate had a Grifter and I had one which had this back pedal brake thing which simply stopped the back wheel dead using a drum in the middle of the wheel. Our road was covered in long black lines of rubber because of that.

[Diver]

Yeah, but if your were going some speed sometimes that didn't work too well and you would go flying over the handlebars. Brilliant for powerslides though

and there was the pedal backward and back-brake dismount!

Cool if you timed it just right

[darmstadt]

Backpedal and brake! Brilliant

Yeah, but if your were going some speed sometimes that didn't work too well and you would go flying over the handlebars. Brilliant for powerslides though

[Diver]

I had one as a young lad in South Africa in the 70's, bloody scary thing it was too, especially when you got up speed...

Backpedal and brake! Brilliant

[darmstadt]

People were riding fixed wheel bikes pretty much from the start of the bike - but they were popular throughout the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s at least.

Now someone thinks they've invented something new.

I had one as a young lad in South Africa in the 70's, bloody scary thing it was too, especially when you got up speed...

[threaded]

Reminds me of the "Bike Polo" reporting a few months back, even though it was an exhibition sport at the Olympics in 1908 ...

[Bumfluff]

I used to race BMX's the first time round when they were cool,

'riders ready, peddles ready, gooooooooooooo'

[Diver]

Not the same thing - a fixed wheel bike has no freewheel either - pedals are permanently connected to the wheel. But it wasn't invented by some lycra-clad ex-courier in London.

We used to make them when I was a kid 40 years ago.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

BMX bikes didn't have any gears

Not the same thing - a fixed wheel bike has no freewheel either - pedals are permanently connected to the wheel. But it wasn't invented by some lycra-clad ex-courier in London.

[Diver]

What a co-incidence!

Got home with my dead bike to receive a telling off from girly for "Illegal street racing, AGAIN!"

Tried with the denials, received a grilling about how exactly I broke my bike, and was then presented with this as evidence . What an ambush! Darn it, busted again. (You have to play spot the threaded, but to make it easy, I'm the one with the nice legs on a fixie.)

See! Cyclists with no consideration whatsoever for pedestrians or other road users.
Run them off the road I say.
Preferably at speed and into the nearest plate glass window.

Cool video by the way threaded

[Bagpuss]

Just watched an item in which two former cycle couriers were claiming they were amongst the first to ride fixed wheel bikes on the road 8 years ago.

People were riding fixed wheel bikes pretty much from the start of the bike - but they were popular throughout the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s at least.

Now someone thinks they've invented something new.

BMX bikes didn't have any gears

[threaded]

What a co-incidence!

Got home with my dead bike to receive a telling off from girly for "Illegal street racing, AGAIN!"

Tried with the denials, received a grilling about how exactly I broke my bike, and was then presented with this as evidence . What an ambush! Darn it, busted again. (You have to play spot the threaded, but to make it easy, I'm the one with the nice legs on a fixie.)

[Diver]

Ay! many a time I fixed a wheel on me bike and rode it on't road

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Just watched an item in which two former cycle couriers were claiming they were amongst the first to ride fixed wheel bikes on the road 8 years ago.

People were riding fixed wheel bikes pretty much from the start of the bike - but they were popular throughout the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s at least.

Now someone thinks they've invented something new.