anothersam

My name is Sam. Clearly I'm not the first. I live about 50 miles south of London and 3000 miles east of Ohio where I was born and grew up and cycled on my paper route.

Here's a picture of me:



That bike, a Marin Sausalito, was later stolen on Tottenham Court Road, which is a place with lots of electronics stores and tourists and the occasional bicycle thief. It was my "born again" bike, meaning the first one I bought after spending a longish stretch not cycling.

I currently ride a Litespeed set up as a singlespeed, a Langster, a Dahon Presto Lite converted to singlespeed because apparently I like singlespeeds, a Bike Friday, and a Ridgeback Genesis day 02 which doesn't go any further than a turbo these days.

Although I am intrigued by fixies (and know enough about them to be aware how much some people hate the word FIXIES), I love coasting too much to ever give it up. I believe William Wallace said it best:



Most of my riding is in the countryside, though I love city cycling and regularly take the train up to London just to play in traffic.

Many of my views on cycling are summed up here.

10 Wheels

Hi Sam,

Nice Intro.

Johnny_Monkey

You live in Brighton?

anothersam

Closer to Hastings

Johnny_Monkey

Have you been to Battle?

anothersam

Yes. 1066 and all that. The French still invade regularly.