For the ns fixie riders...

Missed. Point. Completely. Those yuppies you see training, or those basketball players drinking gatorade are not using their bikes or their beverage to make a fashion statement. I never see bball players go up to each other and say "Man, that's some legit Gatorade. You look great with it.", and those yuppies aren't out there just fucking around in flannel shirts and beanies in 90 degree weather. They are getting exercise. What is the point of the hipster fixie? To look good, and to prove a fashion or social statement. "ohhh look at me and my indie-ness. I'm so fucking indie (or trendy at this point) that I don't get around with a car or road bike like all you pedestrian masses."
Its a slap to the face of everyone else that cares about something.
And don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking fixies themselves. I'm knocking the people that have attached themselves to the fixed gear like leeches and ruined it for everyone else. I built my fixie with my bare hands and I ride it around a ton and its great. But now I see hipsters who paid $800 for their fixie riding it around like they're the shit and looking down on other people for not having one. Frankly, its stupidity at its most prevalent, and this trend needs to stop.

Also, lattes because hipsters are pretentious fucks who think drinking coffee makes them look more bohemian. Welcome to the nightmare.
 
okok. I can get what your saying. Makes sense. Theres biters or whatever. Buuut theres kids in magic suits and with the newest shit and cant throw down at all. There annoying and stupid too, they have them just to look cool.. but does that mean a trend should stop? noo. I can completly see what your saying and i agree with some of it. But I think your letting it get to your head just a wee bit.
 
But there's other things about hipsters that piss me off. Other, much more terrifying things, that I won't get into, like how they completely destroyed indie music by popularizing Indie as a genre, rather than a label for non-mainstream music, but that's another story.
Make no mistake, these hipsters have ruined everything they touched so far.
 
I just don't understand fixies in super hilly areas like san fran, where if you have gears you can blow right past them. It's just really funny, I raced track in my youth, and when my parents couldn't afford it anymore, the track bike was retired in the garage, and all of a sudden, 4 years ago it became super cool to have track bikes for road biking, and I sold the GT Pulse of my racing days for cashmoney and picked up a cheap fixed for looking cool around town AND a pinarello with a full record group with the money I sold the frame for.
 
have you been out of manhattan if you've been to nyc....have you been to queens where it takes 20minutes walking to get to the to closest subway station or you have to take a bus just to make it to the subway before you could even start going to your destination, there are many places id much rather ride a few block then use public transportation...not to mention its free
 
i have to agree with just about all the hipster hate, its true, they fuck up everything they touch. like the fashion is ok to me, the fixies are pretty cool, i like the music they listen to, etc... all these things are fine by themselves, but when combined, and taken way to far, it becomes extremely annoying.
ive riden my friends fixies alot, and i like them, they are fun and i wouldnt mind having one as a second road bike. but even if it was a POS, it would fit the hipster trend, and everytime i rode it id probably get lots of hipsters trying to talk to me and shit. i have a single speed with "tiny" handlebars, both brakes, 32c tires, a beefy frame and fork, and its my perfect commuter bike, its perfect for going around town, and through neighborhoods really fast. when its just miles of straight road its not the best, but a shit ton better than my mtn bike. but i can bike through town, up and down curbs, stair sets, take dirt trails, jump the bike around alot. and get places much faster than my fixie friends because of it.
 
hey dude, I'd keep up with you on my fixed. I've ridden DH on it as a joke last year. I can handle it on anything, riding down 30sets, single track, off loading docks, anything. lets say I go through wheels at least once a year. thank god for steel frames and a TIG welder in my neighbors garage to reinforce all of the lugs.
 
im sure you could, i was talking about my friends with their tiny tires and delicate frames. i swear they brake something like once a week. i trash mine and ive never broken anything. and when it comes to straight road i can still go just as fast.
but yeah id like to do a flip flop hub and try doing riding all the stuff i do fixed. im sure it would suck in some ways but it could be really fun in other ways.what kind of frame you got?
 
so I googled and are fixies just a more basic verison of regular bikes? like little kids bikes for adults? if so, then why ride them?
 
This is the urban dictionary definition of fixie:
A bicycle with a single gear and no brakes, the type that you used when you were fucking 8 years old.

Is said to be it's own "Sub-culture" but according to a hipster, everything they like is a sub-culture, and everything else is mainstream garbage.

Since it has no brakes, it has no business being on the actual road, and is usually used to ride around the neighborhood to make the user's hipster status higher than all the neighborhood kids.

Pretty soon, every single hipster douche/wannabe is gonna be riding this and believe it's so "indie."Hipster- "nice bike kid"

Kid- "better than your fixie faggot bike, i can actual go on the dirt with this bike."

Sounds pretty spot on to me
 
It's a motobecane frame, with mavic cxp22s laced to formula hubs. total cost of my build, sub 300$. plus I weigh less than 150, so I don't have enough mass to really destroy it no matter what I do. the only challenging/(why it's fucking dumb, but really fun) part on riding everything fixed is setting up your pedals to clear larger rocks and waterbars. I raced one cross race fixed last year, and it was the most challenging thing I've ever done on a bike. never doing that again. but I did get props from basically every single racer there for having balls/being a dumbass.

Lately I'm just stoked that most of my super hipster friends who thought that fixies are the be all and end all of bicycles have moved away from that mindset and have discovered how awesome a road or a cross bike with gears is for getting around. a roadbike with a flatbar setup rules for around town. its just a bit more pricy than a fixed.
 
hey you're the guy who encouraged me to google it.. I remembered another thread where there was a really gay picture of you sitting on one inside and it made me think 'fixie' just meant a stationary bike
 
oh yeah, that was me drunk as fuck riding on rollers a few years ago. definitely don't recommend doing that, theres a picture a few minutes later of my friend trying the same thing on a road bike and ending up bloodied on the wall.
 
and if you don't know what rollers are, try finding a set and riding on them, so much fun and such a good training tool to work your whole body, unlike spinning on a stationary bike.
 
I'm no hipster, i ride downhill and cross country competitively. I have a road bike aswell but i like the look of these fixies and im probably gonna use it a lot for transportation if i do get one, i think there sweet. justsayin
 
Any competitor would know that these are shit bikes and severely overpriced for what you get. I doubt your knowledge and that you race competively (especially downhill).
And if you have a road bike, why would you ever think of getting a fixie? Especially one thats expensive and just for looks. Bullshit. I'm calling your bullshit.
 
haha gold.

just out of curiosity, what do you ride? road, xc, dh?

I don't doubt your knowledge. you mentioned you're a mechanic, so I understand where your rage towards dangerous conversions and dumb ass owners come from, as I have several friends who have the exact same opinion. though you should also hate Tri riders for the same reasons (can't change flats, don't maintain their bikes, etc). I once heard a story from a friend who was taking off the headset cap on a tri riders TT bike, to find that the guy had sweated so much that the sweat had actually corroded the entire steerer and it smelled so bad he vomited from the odor.

what really gets me going is when kids source all these vintage japanese frames and parts, for exorbitant amounts of money, and then just trash the shit out of bicycling history by not knowing how to take care of anything. I've seen destroyed NJS DA BBs, mangled superbe pro wheelsets, rusted bridgestone framesets, and a bunch of other shit, and I live in Denver, where the pretentiousness isn't that outrageous. I can't even imagine what kids do in NY or Seattle/Portland/San Francisco.
 
And judging by your pictures, I'd say you're either a very bad downhiller, or a very loaded rich kid who likes to play "how expensively can i trick out my cross-country bike". Adding triple crown shocks does not make a cross country bike a downhill bike. And frankly, I see no competitive stickers, no dirt, and a perfectly clean everything on those bikes, which tells me you're lying. I also don't see any competitive bikes period. So that's there too.
 
never ridden a fixie don't see the point but i'll post a friend of mine cause i think it looks pretty nice
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sherlock fucking holmes.

and btw my "inb4 epic arabian rant"-thing was SPOT ON. deletion pending though. please arabian step over the line or i might post porn to reach that goal
 
I ride cross country (hard tail and fs TREK slr race stock) and a mutt of a fixed gear I built myself from parts from my Recycling Center. '84 Univega frame, Schwinn Le Tour bars, headset and cranks, and shimano everything else.
Saving for a decent road, and upgrading the fixie little by little to a road. I don't hate Tri because they're not flaunting their bikes around like "ooo look at me i'm so fucking indie and alternative". They use their bikes, and I respect that. The knowledge part isn't what gets to me cuz everyone can learn to change a tire at some point. Its changing that smug fucking attitude that's the hard part. And yeah, I don't know why kids like to fetishize vintage frames. It just screams pretentious "I'm trying to be working class with trust fund" shit.
 
ahahahaa look at the tape on the right side. Perfect example of hipsters not know what the fuck they're doing.
 
im into ridding track bikes

heres mine:

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and here is a lil video of my friend that i ride with, hes a pretty cool guy..

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those univega frames are pretty heavy, if I were you I'd just leave it as is and put more money into the "save for a roadbike fund" instead of upgrading it slowly.

I understand that vintage bikes are pretty awesome to look at as a collectors piece, as bikes really aren't built at all with the care they used to be made with, but you can get a much more functional, better, and cheaper bike new than what these kids pay for vintage.

I disagree with you about the Tri riders. they are really smug about how much they spent on the bike and how many grams lighter it is than the next guys. it may not be indie and alternative, but weight weenies annoy the fuck out of me. if people could ride the entire tour on a fixie 100 years ago, and on a 3 speed 80 years ago, there is no reason you need a sub 15 pound build with 33 electronically shifted gears and all carbon fiber to race in Cat 5 crits.
 
Actually, my fixie totalled under $100, so I stick with it. Its fucking great. i really don't understand the appeal of it though, beyond trying for some credibility with poorer people. I think the newer fixies look fantastic. But then, I've also seen hipsters trying to trick with $800 aerospokes on their fixies and fucking them up. THAT pisses me off.
I guess I've never met super yuppie asshole Tri's then. Everyguy I've met that does it seems to be super nice, then again, we only have one triathlon in Park City and you're supposed to be drunk when you do it, so hey. That might be it haha.
 
ah, thats nice. In Colorado, especially a certain "range-rover driving hippy" harboring city that will remain un-named, we have probably the most pretentious roadie and tri community behind portland. We also have a super pretentious XC scene, but the Downhill community is large and really welcoming to newcomers. DH guys are always talking to new people on the lift and giving legit advice, its great to see. The downtown scene is solid too, including the fixie crowd. pretty much everybody rides their bike a ton, even the uber-pretentious hipsters put in a few decent miles a week. there are multiple organized rides and races each week, and the whole, "freestyle fixed scene" hasn't made it here yet. *knocks on wood*

do you ever check bikesnob's blog? I feel like you would enjoy it.
 
no I'm in denver. I can't stand boulder. but bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com I think it is. its a daily blog, the guy got a book deal out of it too, and the book is pretty fucking good. he basically satirizes bike culture and pop/hipster culture in general.
 
Here is my bike. I like to ride it places like Vail and Hoosier pass.
Sorry for the shitty quality picture, its from my phone.
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i never said that freewheels give you a better workout, in fact I said that I can understand a fixed gear if you are training for some serious roadracing. I just think its way more fun to coast a hill then have to fight your pedals to slow down so that you dont wreck yourself the whole time. I also think that a bike with gears or even a single speed would be more practical for most bikers who would be riding there bikes for general transportation purposes.

so basically fixies to me are for people who train mad hard or people who are hardcore into that scene like messengers or people who are all about riding bikes. they seem pointless for general transportaion purposes for the majority of people out there.
 
this, as someone who actually did race downhill competitively i can safely say that ac is a cross country bike with triple crowns.

and to add credibility, heres a pic of me racing;

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If that's what downhill is to your town, i'm sad for you. Those things would break on the first run at a place like Deer Valley or Whistler on a competition trail.
 
okaaay. Youve probably never even rode one? There are really fun to ride. Hellbents probably arent practical in the park.. a lot of people still ride them and some slay pretty hard. Just because your pedaling the entire time doesnt mean its not practical. I feel like i have far more control on a fixed gear then a free wheel. Just go out and try it with an open mind, then come back and bash them. But honestly you cant just judge something the way you are without actually doing it.
 
Jesus christ you are such a fucking whiny little bitch.Every post you make you're crying about something.
 
Ok, i cant help but reply. That giant ac2 i bought for $250, no joke

because i am not some spoiled rich kid. I dont care if its an xc frame,

it works fine for me downhilling, and would be super shitty for xc.

Just because i race competitively doesn't mean im great at it. I have

only started to get into it recently. Competitive stickers? i dont even

know what thats supposed to mean. I clean and maintain my bikes every week, i took those pictures right after cleaning them, hence no dirt. I have not posted my cross country bike on ns, its not amazing either but it does the job as long as im good at controlling it.

As for credibility, i race for my high schools xc team for one.

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There you go, i would rather just let this thread die then go on with any more pointless arguing.
 
I guess technically the one i made in the ketchup thread WAS about my boner crying, if you wanna call it that.
 
I...sorta see where he's coming from. It seems like a de-evolution. Why would you go back to an inferior product? The pedals don't stop turning, do you realize how fucking gay that is?
 
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