Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - CRITICAL CLASS - SF Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/31/LVGNAN67MR1.DTL&hw=bike&sn=001&sc=1000

Any bay area people have any thoughts on this?

I know **** like this is discussed all the time in this forum, and I really refrain from posting, but I wouldn't mind peoples opinions on the article.

Mother ****ers Jacked My Idea. ive been joking about doing that forever! BLAH

heh

guess ill just have to out do them. :)

Just another "I'm a real _____, go away you poseur ______." article.

I don't really get the fakeanger thing, you have to be a messenger if you like having a bag strapped to your back and a ride a "track" bike on the street? I guess if you're not a messenger, you have to have a road bike, a hybrid bike, mountain bike, or some other sort of non-track bike and panniers?

Sounds like miss dreadlocks is too full of herself.

Just another "I'm a real _____, go away you poseur ______." article.

I don't really get the fakeanger thing, you have to be a messenger if you like having a bag strapped to your back and a ride a "track" bike on the street? I guess if you're not a messenger, you have to have a road bike, a hybrid bike, mountain bike, or some other sort of non-track bike and panniers?

Sounds like miss dreadlocks is too full of herself.

I'm in agreement with this statement.

*yawn*

Both sides of this argument are really tired. Wear and ride whatever the frak you want to, messenger or no.

Lol @ hipsters

http://x006.uploaderx.net/x/630104199.jpg

*yawn*

Both sides of this argument are really tired. Wear and ride whatever the frak you want to, messenger or no.

Thank You ! ! !

i'm glad i live in NYC

Are we being warned that the fashion police are after non-messengers?

Hinds admits that when it comes to bags, for her at least, fashion has trumped functionality.

"I don't like having stuff everybody else has, but I finally break down and get it," she says, nodding to her Freight bag. "I actually prefer a backpack to a side sling, because of better weight distribution, but ..."

What a tool. She gripes about hipsters not being on their bikes 8 hours a day, but she'll make herself uncomfortable by getting a style of bag that isn't her first choice.

ben roflsberger.

i just hope the hipsters keep riding bikes for longer than they wore their campers. if it's anything like yupis and their fashion dogs, we'll need an spca for fixed gears when the trend passes.

we'll need an spca for fixed gears when the trend passes.
they're called VELODROMES, and I would love to see more people racing at them!

I ride what I want , wear what I want , I don't give a rats @ss what a messenger think's or say's

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thanks to the ever great queerpunk

Mother ****ers Jacked My Idea. ive been joking about doing that forever! BLAH
:)


OH SNAP! Daaamn....see, that's why I discuss certain things off the message boards. Someone's always sniping ideas for free!

ill show THEM class.... heheheh

']they're called VELODROMES, and I would love to see more people racing at them!

a-men to that I have been waiting for the sacramento sports commission and the county to get on with building the crater here at mather field oh sooo sweet want to race mmm hmmm mhhhm

Well read the article and watched the slide show and I have to say that she has only been working 10 months and she's jaded hmm I wonder does it make the kids in sacto look any worse that we don't care as long as you can keep up with us hmm


here are two old school messengers here in town both in their 50s that would smoke her any day of the week

and as far as stylish goes gees those bike were purdier than anyone of mine or all of em put together

as long as your on a bike you are cool with me just ride and ride like you mean it

They should have shot indoors. Unless you do some Photoshop correction, the blue-grey skies of San Franscisco will give you that overexposed, flat, washed-out look.

Sometimes those super big mess bags can be a little overkill. But you can't go wrong with a Flippin Hades or R.E.Load joint if you just have to carry a haul on a bike with no braze on's. But it defeats the purpose for me to ride an 18 pound race bike with 40 lbs. of miscellany strapped to one sholder.

I like to ride light unless I'm shopping, then I take a bike with a rear rack. Tha's part of the allure of cycling for me, the feeling of cutting through the air unencumbered. Like a bird.

My back is as wide as my big bag it is about 26" but I am a big boy too

"guys wear tighter shorts back east"!?

c'mon
http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2006/12/31/lv_bikeMessenger00181_mk.jpg

i know him. hes fast as hell, very nice guy.

nice girl jeans I am surprised he doesn't fall off that saddle and crush his balls with the forward sloping position of it

nice spicer? though

edit: sorry don't know the kid - if I met him I would probably like him I like most people

Yeah, that article was pretty pointless. But it was cool to see Fhar in it.

I'm so super glad that there are 24-year-old girls in camo hats giving us all cool lessons.

haha im not commented on dudes shorts as much as i am the juxtaposition of that quote and picture in the same article, further proving the ridiculousness.

i know you're all love evan. :)

i know you're all love evan. :)

does he have another ride???? I think I may hev met him here in sacto once at a race I am usuall so drunk at these things I don't remember much of anyone.. I am the dfl king

he has (had?) a black iro with green deep vs.

he has (had?) a black iro with green deep vs.


Right. Nice cat. Met him at the NAHBS race.

yup met him he is a pretty nice guy from what I remmeber he doesn't always wear his sisters pants right? j/k :)

yup met him he is a pretty nice guy from what I remmeber he doesn't always wear his sisters pants right? j/k :)

Actually, he does.

Just another "I'm a real _____, go away you poseur ______." article.

I don't really get the fakeanger thing, you have to be a messenger if you like having a bag strapped to your back and a ride a "track" bike on the street? I guess if you're not a messenger, you have to have a road bike, a hybrid bike, mountain bike, or some other sort of non-track bike and panniers?

Sounds like miss dreadlocks is too full of herself.

Sounds more like she touched a nerve with a lot of you fakeangers! A really raw nerve. Maybe deep down you know you're just a bunch of hipster poseur wannabe ******bags. lol

Sounds more like she touched a nerve with a lot of you fakeangers! A really raw nerve. Maybe deep down you know you're just a bunch of hipster poseur wannabe ******bags. lol

'mer I wanna give you a big hug

That picture is a girl? It looks like a girl. 99% sure it's a girl.

Who, dude in the hotpants?
Things like this make me very happy to be living somewhere "uncool" where people do things because they like to do them, not to follow or reject trends. So much insecurity on the coasts, damn.

the city is secure, the journalists at the chronicle, not so much. all spin.

the city is secure, the journalists at the chronicle, not so much. all spin.
werd there was the same kind of article written by the bee the author of the article and avid spandex wearing road racing tour de france maniac see where this goes

he was confused that we drink beer post race as a recovery drink eh?

i remember that article. beer are calories! it keeps us going.

keeps winning me my dfl titles man

your typical non-competative drunkerd type

the city is secure, the journalists at the chronicle, not so much. all spin.
Maybe... sure seems like there's a lot of threads from Coasties looking for exclusive messenger bags, NJS parts, hating on people for having Pistas, trackstanding on bars, etc. The few mainstream media mentions we've got around here has been more focusing on the novelty of biking / alleycats / messengering than worrying about clothes and gear. I guess we've got a couple of years before biking partisanship appears - still too underground and hilly for most people.

perhaps. there is deffinately that element here, but the fixed gear community here is pretty secure and friendly, and overwhelmingly enthusiastic about riding and racing, and cycling in general. i would not rush to judge a city based on newspaper articles and internet forum postings :)

yeah I hate to say it but the sf and sacto scenes are kinda tight with eachother the sf oakland kids come to town they stay with friend of mine or their families in town and we all party and ride

retem im still impressed you spotted ranier in that photo of me in the ugly mugs thread. did you ride with him in sac? he just joined the montanovelo track team.

yeah he has been out for a couple of our races he is a pretty decent guy very professional I think I may start calling him that the professional

**** ask him about dfl at the slay ride and day of wreckoning es me mayn

tom

I think you have ridden or raced with a few of my buds from town here jim mac and paul

ya probably know chris(sf) and austin(sacto) too

yea, good guy for sure. i will ask him next time i see him. i am working in the east bay now and want to ride with the east bay kids more soon. its been a hectic few months so i have not had the chance.

There's a book about this. "Messengers Style". I think squid is in it.

yeah I hear that no polo in months and no really racing cept dfl and I wanna do better

I will probably bee working at the presidio in about a year year and a half that is if I can get this gig with LUCAS