Fixie Riders
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Fixie Riders
Postby verbs and nouns » Tue May 03, 2011 9:35 pm
To hell with all of em I say.
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Andy MASH SF wrote:You ride a (brakeless) track bike on the city street because it’s stupid and reckless–and by default: bad-ass.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby HappyHumber » Tue May 03, 2011 11:34 pm
I ride it with a tradie-type hi-viz shirt, gloves, rear rack and panniers. fashioned be jiggered.
Happy living off to one side in that little sharp edge of the bell curve, as far as the Fixie riding demographic goes.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby mikesbytes » Tue May 03, 2011 11:46 pm
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby HappyHumber » Tue May 03, 2011 11:55 pm
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby mikesbytes » Wed May 04, 2011 12:05 am
PerfumeHappyHumber wrote:Are they trying to sell you ipods or something there, Mike?
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby HappyHumber » Wed May 04, 2011 12:13 am
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby mikesbytes » Wed May 04, 2011 1:36 am
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby HappyHumber » Wed May 04, 2011 9:28 am
He's got that puberty thing out of the way and realised the error of his ways? Do tell, V&N... please....
Speaking of NJS, I was rifling through my spares pile the other day and found a slightly ratty old Kashimax saddle, which when overturned I was surprised to find had the NJS logo of niftyness on it. It originally came of an old Roadie Ricardo/Leisure Products frame picked up originally by Aushiker off a kerb somewher, and then passed on via CasualCyclist to me.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby drubie » Wed May 04, 2011 9:39 am
Snap!HappyHumber wrote: Speaking of NJS, I was rifling through my spares pile the other day and found a slightly ratty old Kashimax saddle, which when overturned I was surprised to find had the NJS logo of niftyness on it. It originally came of an old Roadie Ricardo/Leisure Products frame picked up originally by Aushiker off a kerb somewher, and then passed on via CasualCyclist to me.
I've got one from an early nineties Europa too - I think the "very centurion like" group of bikes supposedly manufactured by a group of Oz companies were just imported Kawamuras - groupset, saddle, everything matches (including serial numbers). The Kashimax saddles are nifty but mine is harder than that Sheldon Brown rock saddle picture.
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby hartleymartin » Wed May 04, 2011 10:05 am
Not a real fixie rider... he's got brakes and he's not wearing skinny jeans.mikesbytes wrote:But bunnies dig fixie riders
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby HappyHumber » Wed May 04, 2011 10:15 am
Stuff where he fits into the niche, Marty. Where's the pic of you & the bunny girls?hartleymartin wrote:mikesbytes wrote:But bunnies dig fixie riders
Not a real fixie rider... he's got brakes and he's not wearing skinny jeans.
Actually... scratch that... just post some more Bunny Girls
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby van » Wed May 04, 2011 10:21 am
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby mikesbytes » Wed May 04, 2011 1:09 pm
And I've got the wrong handlebarshartleymartin wrote:Not a real fixie rider... he's got brakes and he's not wearing skinny jeans.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby verbs and nouns » Wed May 04, 2011 1:17 pm
I'm so sick of the "hipster hating" and generalizations that goes on as soon as fixed gears are discussed. It's boring to read and I'm over it.
I was just venting.
Anyway, I still ride fixed almost everyday, when I'm not on my vintage Italian road bike.
Also, I just bought a Fujita NJS saddle from a friend. It came off his roadbike with full Shimano 600 and Nitto bar and stem...
And finally, i'm embracing my hipsterism. Excuse me while I got listen to some obscure band that broke up in the late 90s and go post on fixed.org.au.
All you haters suck my NJS.
Andy MASH SF wrote:You ride a (brakeless) track bike on the city street because it’s stupid and reckless–and by default: bad-ass.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby verbs and nouns » Wed May 04, 2011 1:19 pm
Whipskids are fun though.
Andy MASH SF wrote:You ride a (brakeless) track bike on the city street because it’s stupid and reckless–and by default: bad-ass.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby HappyHumber » Wed May 04, 2011 1:31 pm
Having said that though - if I see a Hipster Fixter (aka. 'a Ficksie F***head' amongst my friends) posing tragically or riding dangerously, I do enjoy taking the piss just as much as the next guy. Same goes for the lycra-clad brand name poseurs on their high end roadies if I see them blowing through stop signs thinking their 5h!t don't stink.
I don't think most people out side bike circles would really distinguish.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby jaseyjase » Wed May 04, 2011 2:02 pm
mikesbytes wrote:Nah, the real problem is an inability to change gears
i just noticed this guy is wearing a BNA jersey, anybody we know??
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby HappyHumber » Wed May 04, 2011 2:11 pm
Yeah.. Mikesbytes himself. The same bloke with the Bunnies... I think he's a bit of a camera whorejaseyjase wrote:i just noticed this guy is wearing a BNA jersey, anybody we know??
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby jaseyjase » Wed May 04, 2011 2:23 pm
thumbs up mike!
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby hartleymartin » Wed May 04, 2011 3:16 pm
mikesbytes wrote:Nah, the real problem is an inability to change gears
http://raleightwenty.webs.com - the top web resource for the Raleigh Twenty
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby HappyHumber » Wed May 04, 2011 3:21 pm
Marty... get back to your pickling jars full of SA hubs soaking in kero will you.... it's the same bloke.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby hartleymartin » Wed May 04, 2011 3:22 pm
Okay, this is getting just a bit silly now...mikesbytes wrote:And I've got the wrong handlebarshartleymartin wrote:Not a real fixie rider... he's got brakes and he's not wearing skinny jeans.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby verbs and nouns » Wed May 04, 2011 8:25 pm
Andy MASH SF wrote:You ride a (brakeless) track bike on the city street because it’s stupid and reckless–and by default: bad-ass.
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Re: Fixie Riders
Postby mikesbytes » Wed May 04, 2011 9:14 pm
I couldn't imagine someone actually riding those handlebarsverbs and nouns wrote:You know those bars were an April Fools Joke, right?
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Re: Fixie Riders
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