Re: hipsters on fixie trend continuing
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:20 pm
i don't mind fixies but if i could, i'd introduce a rule that the handlebars had to be a minimum width. those short ones are really ugly.
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me too, I started riding one in 1962bigfriendlyvegan wrote: I was into fixies before they were trendy.
Yeah, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Though make it a white aerospoke and cut down flat bars with flouro green or pink Ourys (ie: something that doesn't match) and I'm gonna take the owner for a drive around the block... while tied to the rear bumper of my car.munga wrote:why, why, why...
How the hell do you ride it with the seat down and the bars up like that? It looks like somebody described a track bike to the guy over a scratchy phone line and he built it from memory. It's the ugliest damn thing this side of Bea Arthur riding a Raleigh 20 naked.yehuwdiy wrote:Still, you have to admit, this person has obviously spent some time and money on their whip. While we may find it as visually coherent and your average kebab at 3a.m., this person obviously rides (and dare I say it loves) their bike. Can't fault them for that.
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Spat me Bourbon...drubie wrote:How the hell do you ride it with the seat down and the bars up like that? It looks like somebody described a track bike to the guy over a scratchy phone line and he built it from memory. It's the ugliest damn thing this side of Bea Arthur riding a Raleigh 20 naked.yehuwdiy wrote:Still, you have to admit, this person has obviously spent some time and money on their whip. While we may find it as visually coherent and your average kebab at 3a.m., this person obviously rides (and dare I say it loves) their bike. Can't fault them for that.
Obviously fashion. They originated from function, as some people may know, commuters had the aerospokes on one wheel to allow quick locking on the bike while delivering items.Mulger bill wrote:Aerospokes. Form, fashion or function. Discuss...
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A single speed with no brakes? Now that's a Darwinian machine.elStado wrote: Actually I think it's a single speed.. not sure if it's a proper fixed gear.
Sweet machine!jimsheedy wrote:
You also need some really short black or white stem.jimsheedy wrote:I think im gonna get some purple rims and some pink BMX pedals. A flouro green kashimax saddle and some streamers for the handlebars.
Bah haha true that. However I think it just doesn't have brakes in the display pic for aesthetic reasons.Zynster wrote:A single speed with no brakes? Now that's a Darwinian machine.elStado wrote: Actually I think it's a single speed.. not sure if it's a proper fixed gear.
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Your eldest son should be riding a fixie if he really wants hipster street cred. Win-win.tallywhacker wrote:nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Where did we go wrong, my elsest son is a hipster, the middle one is a bogan (he drinks VB and likes acdc/metallica). At least there is hope for the youngest, he rides a bike
a real hipster would actually drink VB and listen to AC/DC because it's "Ironic" and totally so uncool, that it just has to be like totally cool to drink VB and listen to metallica especially early metallica, cause that's when they wore skinny jeans that were totally epic, have you seen how skinny their jeans were? Awesome, that is so bogan, that it's just RAD! And how Rad! is it to be fully into bogan stuff and get how epically cheesy it is, but still totally get totally into it, but not too much cause that would just look like you are trying way too hard.tallywhacker wrote:nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Where did we go wrong, my elsest son is a hipster, the middle one is a bogan (he drinks VB and likes acdc/metallica). At least there is hope for the youngest, he rides a bike
Bah. And I thought I was going to be so clever!elStado wrote:http://hipsterhitler.com/2010/09/on-the-battlefield/