2008 Specialized Langsters

[skwerl]

flip the wheel and run singlespeed will require at least one brake.

no. s/s requires two brakes if Giant want to sell it as road-legal. depends if it comes with a fixed-free hub

EDIT - from the Cyclestore website:
"PLEATE NOTE IMAGE SHOWS BIKE WITHOUT BRAKES FITTED THIS IS INCORRECT,
BIKES WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH BRAKES FITTED"

 

[hichakhok]

ok ok ok

I'll lighten up. Not a troll just object to the word spazz, thanks for removing it Perhaps this can be settled by a brakeless 85" highgate hill archway road race....

 

[peejay78]

haha

on the opposite side of the road, facing incoming traffic for extra points, like in burnout.

 

[skwerl]

72"?

I saw you last year and you were going up hampstead, no?

I go up there with 80". I'm not saying it's easy, but i don't get off.

Can't think of any hills in the SE where you'd have to leave the fixie at home....

you don't have to but there's more enjoyment to be had on a "normal" road bike. Surrey Hills circuit, for example, is doable on fixed but more fun on something with gears and a freewheel. Easier too, esp. on the knees.

 

[zimzum42]

I thought the enjoyment of hills was the agony in getting up there, so anything that makes it harder is a bonus!

 

[skwerl]

I thought the enjoyment of hills was the agony in getting up there, so anything that makes it harder is a bonus!

after 4 years try telling my knees that

 

[peejay78]

i agree with the longer rides - geared bike best thing.

 

[Squaggles]

Did you buy a London Langster then Peejay ? you seemed to be a bit of a fan

 

[peejay78]

i saw one yesterday in soho, for the first time in the flesh. all i can say is - it didn't look as bad as i had hoped but was still an ABOMINATION, as was the media drone riding it.

you know when you get a bit of sick in your mouth and it tastes really rank? that happened to me.

 

[zimzum42]

I blame Al-Qaida

Without the bombs all these trendys would have stayed on the tube.........

 

[Squaggles]

It's funny isn't it that as cyclists we kind of want more people to ride bikes but when they do we don't really like it .

 

[peejay78]

not that funny.

it's life i guess. it's like when your favourite band become really popular.

 

[Ste_S]

i think the new spazz langsters are a horrible, woeful exercise in specious marketing.

increasingly i seem to be alone in this.

style over substance, the perfect bike for a media-mulleted ad-whore living in shoreditch, or possibly a foxtons estate agent, to place next to their grafitti-clad mini.

That'll be the Condor, surely ?

That London Langster is an abomination though, no doubt dreamt up by some design agency who thinks they're "down with the kids"

 

[peejay78]

you might be right there steve.

 

[Fab Foodie]

not that funny.

it's life i guess. it's like when your favourite band become really popular.

Yeah, and then they no longer appear on the cover of NME