Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - fixed christmas

well merry chrismas to all fixed and ss riders in this forum.

cheers for the help that you proffered when i was starting out...

Yes, Happy Holidays to all.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

it actually snowed in houston, texas today.
http://www.papercutshurt.com/snow.jpeg
yes that is actually snow. it wasnt much but that never happens here so everyone was freaking out.

It's great when it snows in houston, doesn't matter if it's 2 flakes or a trillion, you get the day off.
And they have warnings on the TV if there are flurries even if the temperature is above freezing.
There was a fantastic freeze there in 98 or 97 though. The skyscrapers there have no ice buildup prevention so when the freezing rain got frozen it built up tremendous SUV sized chunks of ice near the tops of a bunch of buildings. The next day when it warmed up they had to close downtown because of all the falling ice. BIG chunks of falling ice. A dozen people ended up in hospital from watching falling ice chunks and not seeing the much smaller pieces heading straight for them. It was hilarious (not folk being hurt, just the way they acted)A large chunk would hit a moving car or SUV and they'd pull over and get into shouting matches about who hit who (answer: nobody dumass)

And Merry Holidays!
Happy New Year!

damn, that's cheery!

Yeah, thanks to all the Old Tymers who are still around in this place, and esp thanks the newer forumeers - without you, we would still be making fun of poor William Karsten.
Lazy sods...

Health and happiness to all.

Like the title of the thread states. Merry X-mas or happy holidays or whatever it is that you celebrate this time of year. To the righties and the lefties, to the fixed and as well to the uncleansed geared folk, best to you and yours!

festivus for the rest of us!!!! :p

since i am half in the bag, I will have to wish EVERYONE a merry Holly-days and Feliz Navidad to all.... damn, champain and working on my christmas 40oz of Steel Reserve.... Santa may need to bring me a new liver.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I propose a toast!

For a Kwazy Kwanzaa for all!

someone has to say it: Bah, Humbug!

damn dude...buzzkill. Ouch...now I need to go Emo for a bit...

Aloha and mele kalikimaka!! Im going to the beach!!!!

it's not christmas in berkeley...i mean, it's still december and all, but...without snow, i just don't feel very xmassy at all.

HOWEVER!

the shop's favorite customer came in today and brought all the mechanics pints of newcastle!!! WHICH WAS MUCH APPRECIATED THANKYOU VERY MUCH OAKTOWNASH!!1 and then we replaced the RD on his roadie for free because i wanted him to go on a hill ride with me tomorrow AND IT'S CHRISTMAS GOD DAMMIT!!!

it actually snowed in houston, texas today.
http://www.papercutshurt.com/snow.jpeg
yes that is actually snow. it wasnt much but that never happens here so everyone was freaking out.

yeah... left Austin on Wednesday,to go to my parents in Dallas, and it snowed pretty much the whole way up..pretty cool, considering we don't see that much of the 'white stuff' down here...nothing left now and we are suppose to be in the 70's next week..crazy Texas weather!
Anyway..Merry Christmas everyone!

festivus for the rest of us!!!! :p

FEATS OF STRENGTH!!!!!!

but you skipped the airing of grievances.....

I wish you a merry Christmas, a happenin' Channuka, a rocking Ramadan, a crazy Kwanzaa, or enjoyable other wintertime festival, should you choose to celebrate one.

Hope you guys all have a good holiday season!

Merry Christmas to you all. I'm at work, but thinking about bikes.
I had a Miyata built for my present this year.

merry christmas to all of you from the atlantic coast of Canada, where all the snow melted yesterday!(but its still cold)


(Done in the proper accent)

I'll have a fixed Christmas,
without gears..
I'll have a fixed Christmas
without brakes...
Though the roads may be cold
and the tires pretty old...

I'll have a fiiiiiixxxed Christmas.

I wish you a merry Christmas, a happenin' Channuka, a rocking Ramadan, a crazy Kwanzaa, or enjoyable other wintertime festival, should you choose to celebrate one.
I go into the woods and shoot trees with reckless abandon. Thanks for forgetting that FDave...

festivus for the rest of us!!!! :p

Long live Seinfeld!!! (who else got the DVD's for X-mas?!?!?) :D

']I go into the woods and shoot trees with reckless abandon. Thanks for forgetting that FDave...

No see, the "other wintertime festival" contingency covers that.

Yeah fixie xmas - got me a tool bag for my bike tools.

Happy holidays all.

Shooting trees is not a festival - it is my "Parzival" quest.

Everybody get a shovel and a six-pack and come over to my house! Ice track racing, beer, bowling, lots of shovelling! Core strength training for next cycling season!

Long live Seinfeld!!! (who else got the DVD's for X-mas?!?!?) :D


simpsons fifth season...

best. christmas. ever.

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happy majorly white holidays, ohioans (and the rest of you as well)!

yes, happy holidays to all...who's heading out for a ride today?

and looky what santa slipped into my stocking...

http://www.provide.net/~klaver/tugs.jpg

the white bike will be looking mighty sharp come next april!

Everybody get a shovel and a six-pack and come over to my house! Ice track racing, beer, bowling, lots of shovelling! Core strength training for next cycling season!
yet somehow, the beer goes unmentioned. I am wise to your Grinchesque ways MKRG...I knew this was just a ploy for us to bring you beer and shovel your front walk!

yes, happy holidays to all...who's heading out for a ride today?


Just came back from a ride now.
It was great, cycled almost all day from 11 to 5, No cabs, buses, very few cars, and weather was fantastic in London.
happy holidays, everyone.

went for a ride. i'm back. the GF got me an original campagnolo belt buckle from 1980. could not be more excited!

Just got back from 8.5 miles in this. My average speed has really fallen since the summer. I'm still new to the winter biking stuff so cut me some slack on my poor performance. Next week it's supposed to get to 40 deg. so at least I'll be back on skinny tires instead of half inflated 2.1 inch nobbies.

That stuff is the BEST to ride on. Last year when we got 22+" of snow in early dec in boston, I rode along all week with 27X 1-1/4" tires. SO FUN! The best part is that you can sort of powerslide around turns/ corners/etc, with not much effort. In fact you can just throw your weight into the turn, and use your legs to pull on the cranks, and you slide/skid into the turns. Just don't use your front brake.
You can't go as fast, but riding in snow is fun! Riding into 6' snowbanks @ 15mph is really fun. :D
Plus there's usually not many cars on the road.

Got my Xmas present to myself yesterday, an 04 pista off ebay.
the good-Chris King headset
-stock seat and post replaced with easton ea70 and selle san marco era saddle
the bad
-it has a tiny little ding/microdent in the downtube, it's really small but damnit the chrome makes it just jump out.
-getting the chain tension just right seems to take a little voodoo magic.
-i definitely need to throw a brake on...
i'll post a pic tomorrow, it's already getting dark.
Merry Christmas All. hope it was a good one.

yes, happy holidays to all...who's heading out for a ride today?


Supposedly we have at least 4 people heading out for the Sat Night ride tonight. There may be more. I didn't ride earlier today because I didn't want to haul all of my presents back from St. Paul. It was a wise decision. I did fit everything in my Kremlin, but it would have been a pretty hellish ride.

Yeah, while it's still X-mass or whatever - hope you are all enjoying it. Merry everyone get everyone something material day!

Everybody get a shovel and a six-pack and come over to my house! Ice track racing, beer, bowling, lots of shovelling! Core strength training for next cycling season!

Bugger!! My connecting flight was cancelled and I was left sleeping on the bloody floor of the Cinnci airport. I'd still be there if my dad didn't drive 6 hrs to get me Xmas eve day. Still don't have my luggage and Delta airlines will burn in hell. Xmas spirit be damned.

But I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday safe at home with loved ones, human and two-wheeled! And here's to the New Year to come, full of new adventures! :)

happy holidays and "MERRY NEW YEAR!" to all.

a fixed gear was my xmas present from me to celebrate a good year. Santa woulda brought it, but he couldn't fit it in his sleigh. ;)

We had 6 riders last night. We didn't really ride much (probably less than 5 miles). But we drank a lot...

It would have been a great night to ride - there was pretty much no-one on the streets.

i want to see a picture of that belt buckle.

We woke up this morning and packed up for the '100 mile car trip' with the family back to Victoria from Parksville where the outlaws live. I went out to the car to find my passenger side rear door window blown out. Checked the car out, nothing gone. Phoned in a police report. Was told I was the fourth call in this am from that area. I was the only one who had not had the car cleaned out, why? Well maybe the dufusses did not notice the red flashing led on the dash. Parksville hoodlums are too stupid to notice when a car is alarmed.
$200 deductible. Merry Christmas present to me.

Hope it had a better ending for the rest of you.

i want to see a picture of that belt buckle.

http://img2.ranchoweb.com/images/wwcyclery/brcabuckle.jpg

looks exactly like this one.

nice...

Did you get the set?
http://www.branfordbike.com/images/gifts/cabbb2.jpg

nope. just the one.

i think of myself as a bit of a buckle fanatic...i think maybe i should get one of those.

I didn't get anything under the tree that was fixed related. I did just order a Jandd (the 2500 cubic inch one) bag off ebay that is a christmas present. And today my mom took me to Old Navy and returned some of the stuff I didnt like and I got some nylonish cargo pants with drawstrings at the ankles which will be nice for riding to school. I also got some nice long sleeve half zip coolmax like shirts from there for like 8 bucks a piece that will look nice on the bike or worn to class, they aren't even longer in the back so no back exposure. Oh and she got me a mini u lock but that did not arrive yet. I did a nice hour on the fixed on Christmas morning.

Happy belated-Christmas. I got nothing FG/SS related, but I did get some Under Armour shirts and some wooly things from Riv thanks to my wife's eagle eye (and my own constant whining).

On the other hand, we returned home yesterday to find that while we were out, the homestead was broken into and some things taken, including an irreplaceable heirloom ring.

Can't win 'em all, eh?

be happy you weren't there - could have had the best thing stolen.
no one to keep watch over your place while you were gone?