# Missed Connections - Part VII **URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404 **Category:** Fixed Street **Created:** [August 31, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404 "2010-08-31T00:59:58Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![AL9000](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/al9000/32/7_2.png) [@AL9000](https://fixed.org.au/u/AL9000) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/1 "2010-08-31T00:59:58Z")
> [@Missed Connections - Part 6](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-6/44624/1048): > > this is 100+ pages is it time for a new thread? > > Also saw no fixers/tracks today, not one. But did see a shitload of lady step throughs. I reckon it’s this summers bit hit! New thread, plus this summers real big hit: [![](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4937326331_c7da6bdb35.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/ah_blake/4937326331/) [IMG\_0521](http://www.flickr.com/photos/ah_blake/4937326331/) by [ah\_blake](http://www.flickr.com/people/ah_blake/), on Flickr ---
### Author: ![coffee](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/coffee/32/163_2.png) [@coffee](https://fixed.org.au/u/coffee) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/2 "2010-08-31T01:32:17Z")
Hi everybody… That’s the last you’ll be hearing from me for the next 100 pages, this thread is dead to me. ---
### Author: ![gink\_04](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/gink_04/32/254_2.png) [@gink\_04](https://fixed.org.au/u/gink_04) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/3 "2010-08-31T01:50:28Z")
ok so i was riding up royal prd, slow traffic was passing, you had your window down, whistled at me smiled, laughed kept driving, i was kinda shocked but it was friendly enough. cog and mash stickers on the back of the car, i think i may know you, but just didn’t get a proper look, hi anyway ---
### Author: ![cashew](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/cashew/32/320_2.png) [@cashew](https://fixed.org.au/u/cashew) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/4 "2010-08-31T03:46:18Z")
Pink Aerospoke, pink frame heading down William Street towards the city… ---
### Author: ![horatio](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/horatio/32/42_2.png) [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/5 "2010-08-31T03:48:47Z")
Sunday afternoon Gertrude St Collingwood- Cinelli MASH with HED3 front I think. Looked too clean for winter. I was in a Volvo. ---
### Author: ![LukeR](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@LukeR](https://fixed.org.au/u/LukeR) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/6 "2010-08-31T04:21:13Z")
[Sign Up for Facebook | Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1554795487#!/photo.php?pid=6465745&fbid=465852644438&id=673524438?) ---
### Author: ![p-dub](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/p-dub/32/332_2.png) [@p-dub](https://fixed.org.au/u/p-dub) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/7 "2010-08-31T16:21:52Z")
nice white and blue moser, chrome fork, brakeless. heading south on st kilda rd this morning. ---
### Author: ![gink\_04](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/gink_04/32/254_2.png) [@gink\_04](https://fixed.org.au/u/gink_04) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/8 "2010-08-31T16:55:50Z")
> [@horatio](#): > > Sunday afternoon Gertrude St Collingwood- Cinelli MASH with HED3 front I think. Looked too clean for winter. I was in a Volvo. seen this bike on the book of face’s think its one of the SBC dude’s, i loved that its matched with a rear b43… ---
### Author: ![The\_JAMS](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/the_jams/32/212_2.png) [@The\_JAMS](https://fixed.org.au/u/The_JAMS) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/9 "2010-08-31T17:12:19Z")
> [@p-dub](#): > > nice white and blue moser, chrome fork, brakeless. heading south on st kilda rd this morning. this one? i saw it too, at uni this morning. ![](http://cyclebucket.com/images/image284.jpg) ---
### Author: ![p-dub](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/p-dub/32/332_2.png) [@p-dub](https://fixed.org.au/u/p-dub) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/10 "2010-08-31T18:16:08Z")
^that’s it. must have been slippery in the rain with no bar tape. nice bike anyway. ---
### Author: ![Lp1](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/lp1/32/346_2.png) [@Lp1](https://fixed.org.au/u/Lp1) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/11 "2010-08-31T18:21:06Z")
Roman numerals give this thread a whole new level of class. I guess I better stay out of it then ---
### Author: ![heavymetal](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/heavymetal/32/69_2.png) [@heavymetal](https://fixed.org.au/u/heavymetal) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/12 "2010-08-31T18:39:15Z")
dude on an industrie fixxxie yesterday. must be almost a year old by now, amazed it’s still rolling. ---
### Author: ![HeavyMetalCyclist](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/heavymetalcyclist/32/209_2.png) [@HeavyMetalCyclist](https://fixed.org.au/u/HeavyMetalCyclist) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/13 "2010-08-31T18:46:44Z")
So many fixed gear bicycles. Now that i live in Clifton Hill, I am no longer one of a kind. Also, Tomhall, i yelled at you from a car. I was going to IKEA. That place rocks. ---
### Author: ![hamishf](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/hamishf/32/201_2.png) [@hamishf](https://fixed.org.au/u/hamishf) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/14 "2010-08-31T18:56:08Z")
When coming back from the north of the state you can always mark your return to the inner city by the first fixed gear bike you see. It’s exclusively after Bell St . ---
### Author: ![mr\_dylan](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/mr_dylan/32/277_2.png) [@mr\_dylan](https://fixed.org.au/u/mr_dylan) #### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/15 "2010-08-31T20:11:51Z")
> [@ellepea](#): > > Roman numerals give this thread a whole new level of class. > I guess I better stay out of it then there’s nobody classier than ellepea. Also, black/green conversion at tradeschool yesterday, FUGLY BULLHORNS ---
### Author: ![petethegalah](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@petethegalah](https://fixed.org.au/u/petethegalah) #### Post date: [September 1, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/16 "2010-09-01T01:27:10Z")
> [@hamishf](#): > > When coming back from the north of the state you can always mark your return to the inner city by the first fixed gear bike you see. It’s exclusively after Bell St . I regularly head out north of Bell St for uni among other things. But I will admit that its a very rare occurence to see another fixed rider… Any other La Trobe students on here? ---
### Author: ![Rooster](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/rooster/32/169_2.png) [@Rooster](https://fixed.org.au/u/Rooster) #### Post date: [September 1, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/17 "2010-09-01T02:14:29Z")
> [@petethegalah](#): > > I regularly head out north of Bell St for uni among other things. But I will admit that its a very rare occurence to see another fixed rider… > > Any other La Trobe students on here? Not a La Trobe student, but I do live out that way. I think I’ve only ever seen one other fixed rider… ---
### Author: ![lachlan](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/lachlan/32/79_2.png) [@lachlan](https://fixed.org.au/u/lachlan) #### Post date: [September 1, 2010, 6:56am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/18 "2010-09-01T06:56:35Z")
> [@petethegalah](#): > > I regularly head out north of Bell St for uni among other things. But I will admit that its a very rare occurence to see another fixed rider… > > Any other La Trobe students on here? I’m at La Trobe, normally ride fixed everyday to uni but I got hit by a car a couple of weeks ago coming home from uni on Waterdale Road and my bike is still in the shop. ---
### Author: ![Captain\_Commuter](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/captain_commuter/32/16_2.png) [@Captain\_Commuter](https://fixed.org.au/u/Captain_Commuter) #### Post date: [September 1, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/19 "2010-09-01T15:19:23Z")
> [@HeavyMetalCyclist](#): > > I was going to IKEA. I stared for a long time into the abyss…and I saw a Poang armchair. ---
### Author: ![mr\_dylan](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/mr_dylan/32/277_2.png) [@mr\_dylan](https://fixed.org.au/u/mr_dylan) #### Post date: [September 1, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404/20 "2010-09-01T15:45:14Z")
If you actually love furniture, you hate IKEA. And I hate that place. Also, went to Fitzroy yesterday, via an ATM in Smith Street, Collingwood. Fixies everywhere, and SCUM walkin around grossing up the place. Excited to see bikes, not to see junkies. [Next page](https://fixed.org.au/t/missed-connections-part-vii/47404.md?page=2)