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na975
01-27-07, 12:24 PM
who lives & rides fixed in the Bronx besides myself ?


Gyeswho
01-27-07, 12:41 PM
i do. im up near 233rd whiteplains road, wakefield area 2nd to last stop on the 2 train

na975
01-27-07, 01:50 PM
i do. im up near 233rd whiteplains road, wakefield area 2nd to last stop on the 2 train O' really ! just one person in da Bx. that's pathetic.


exfreewheeler
01-27-07, 05:32 PM
There is one more person... I think it's Queerpunk. He is on this forum.

genericbikedude
01-27-07, 06:24 PM
I live at 139th and lenox, 1 block away from the bronx.

teiaperigosa
01-27-07, 08:38 PM
. . .

Ceya
01-27-07, 11:13 PM
Yankee stadium. McCombs Damn bridge area

S/F,
CEYA!

queerpunk
01-28-07, 08:32 AM
a mile or so east of ceya. longwood near hunts point.

Gyeswho
01-28-07, 01:03 PM
O' really ! just one person in da Bx. that's pathetic.
where r u located. dang here i thought you were going to suggest a ride or someting. who wants to ride anyway?

evanyc
01-28-07, 04:26 PM
people in the bronx swing golf clubs at young gentlemen on track bikes

queerpunk
01-28-07, 04:59 PM
people in the bronx swing golf clubs at young gentlemen on track bikes

i only did that once, dude.

na975
01-28-07, 07:48 PM
thatz scary ^^

queerpunk
01-28-07, 08:05 PM
thatz scary ^^

i jest.

monsterkidz
01-28-07, 08:15 PM
I grew up in the Bronx. Gunhill Road to be exact. My parents still live up there, so I ride up some weeknights and almost every Sunday for a home cooked pasta dinner. I've had all the sh*t jobs a Bronx kid should have....Bronx Zoo, Yankee Stadium and collecting shopping carts at K-Mart in Bay Plaza. Ahh the good ole days.

na975
01-28-07, 10:06 PM
a mile or so east of ceya. longwood near hunts point. is that near the #6 train? i used to live on Elder ave. station when i was a kid.

na975
01-28-07, 10:08 PM
I grew up in the Bronx. Gunhill Road to be exact. My parents still live up there, so I ride up some weeknights and almost every Sunday for a home cooked pasta dinner. I've had all the sh*t jobs a Bronx kid should have....Bronx Zoo, Yankee Stadium and collecting shopping carts at K-Mart in Bay Plaza. Ahh the good ole days. bay plaza? i drive the bx 12 bus in that place.

queerpunk
01-28-07, 10:18 PM
is that near the #6 train? i used to live on Elder ave. station when i was a kid.

yeah, close to the hunts' pt stop on the 6, but even closer to the 2/5.

yo monsterkids - a real cool band called Optimus Prime has a song called Gun Hill Road... i know the bassist - he lives in LA.

fixedfiend
01-29-07, 12:08 AM
Born and bred. Grew up in throgs neck. Westchester Ave. East Tremont. BX 40. The good old neighborhood. Even though I don't live there anymore, I still find myself visiting the streets just for ol times sake. Skated almost every neighborhood there in the mid to late eighties.

monsterkidz
01-29-07, 10:51 AM
yo monsterkids - a real cool band called Optimus Prime has a song called Gun Hill Road... i know the bassist - he lives in LA.

That's pretty rad I'll have to check them out! Is the band originally from here? On a side note Nick's Pizza on Gun Hill is some of the best pizza in NYC and Ljubos Pizza on the square serves a gigantic slice.

evanyc
01-29-07, 11:27 AM
thatz scary ^^

happened during Rumble Through da Bronx. Boots was right in front of me and a couple of guys were standing beside the street acting like they were gonna push people off their bikes, then some guy comes running off the sidewalk and swings a driver at Boots. it hit his front wheel and headtube but boots managed to keep going. his bike seemed fine but his wheel was a bit outta true.

i used to ride in the bronx a lot when i lived at 200th st in manhattan and worked at a school in the bronx. now i live down in brooklyn so i don't get up there really. i love riding in the bronx though.

queerpunk
01-29-07, 11:38 AM
happened during Rumble Through da Bronx. Boots was right in front of me and a couple of guys were standing beside the street acting like they were gonna push people off their bikes, then some guy comes running off the sidewalk and swings a driver at Boots. it hit his front wheel and headtube but boots managed to keep going. his bike seemed fine but his wheel was a bit outta true.

i used to ride in the bronx a lot when i lived at 200th st in manhattan and worked at a school in the bronx. now i live down in brooklyn so i don't get up there really. i love riding in the bronx though.

woah.

exception to the rule, though. i've found the Bronx to be the friendliest borough i ride in (all of them except that funny little island down there filled with police officers and their families).

monsterkidz
01-29-07, 11:55 AM
That's pretty nuts. I've never had a problem in the BX. I've had spoiled kids in Astoria driving their parents' BMW yell,"Get a car" but that's about it.

evanyc
01-29-07, 12:10 PM
woah.

exception to the rule, though. i've found the Bronx to be the friendliest borough i ride in (all of them except that funny little island down there filled with police officers and their families).

haha yeah, i've never had any trouble riding in the bronx other than seeing that.

i did take students to the courthouse one day though and the trial we saw was for some guy who pulled a hit and run on a delivery guy. the guy only spoke spanish so my students translated and kept going "he's lying! you can tell he's full of it!" and making noises whenever they thought he was lying about not noticing he hit the guy. i had to give em my serious teacher glare before they got in trouble.

na975
01-29-07, 01:54 PM
That's pretty rad I'll have to check them out! Is the band originally from here? On a side note Nick's Pizza on Gun Hill is some of the best pizza in NYC and Ljubos Pizza on the square serves a gigantic slice. i know that Ljubos pizza joint @ westchester SQ. BIG slice in deed!

shishi
01-29-07, 02:00 PM
happened during Rumble Through da Bronx. Boots was right in front of me and a couple of guys were standing beside the street acting like they were gonna push people off their bikes, then some guy comes running off the sidewalk and swings a driver at Boots. it hit his front wheel and headtube but boots managed to keep going. his bike seemed fine but his wheel was a bit outta true.

i used to ride in the bronx a lot when i lived at 200th st in manhattan and worked at a school in the bronx. now i live down in brooklyn so i don't get up there really. i love riding in the bronx though.

I was right behind you...that **** was nutz

monsterkidz
01-29-07, 02:17 PM
i know that Ljubos pizza joint @ westchester SQ. BIG slice in deed!

na975, what part of the BX are you from now?

Ceya
01-29-07, 10:46 PM
That's pretty rad I'll have to check them out! Is the band originally from here? On a side note Nick's Pizza on Gun Hill is some of the best pizza in NYC and Ljubos Pizza on the square serves a gigantic slice.


Their pizza's are freaking huge! Only other place was Fordham and the Concourse. I used to go visit the old italian guy that own a shop near the Square. Riding from 184th and the Concourse that was in 1988-89.

I went to the pizza shop by Weschester Sq recently (Sept 06) same pizza same price for 20 yrs!


S/F,
CEYA!

fixedfiend
01-29-07, 11:29 PM
Their pizza's are freaking huge! Only other place was Fordham and the Concourse. I used to go visit the old italian guy that own a shop near the Square. Riding from 184th and the Concourse that was in 1988-89.

I went to the pizza shop by Weschester Sq recently (Sept 06) same pizza same price for 20 yrs!


S/F,
CEYA!

Yeah, that old guy no longer is there. The last time I heard his son took it over with some asian guy. That shop was what started the love affair with exotic Italian frames, track frames and road frames. That shop was so old school it was straight off the boat from the old country. I can still remember the beautiful frames he had in there. That place was like having an oasis in the middle of the desert.

exfreewheeler
01-30-07, 08:46 AM
I was born and raised in the Bronx... left after 48 years.

There is no Pizza like Bronx Pizza.

This past summer I ran into the old man who had the Pizza Shop where I grew up, in the shop at the neighborhood I last lived in.

He actually remembered me.

I heard him telling his friend, the shop owner where I was eating at, that I use to buy pizza from his shop when I was a piccolino. I am not Italian but I knew what he was saying.

I make my own pizza at home using organic ingredients and soy cheeses.

The last Pizza I had that reminded me of the old days was over a year ago in a shop off of 57th st and 2nd ave.(or 1st ave). Excellent.

Sorry for going off topic. Just made me a little homesick, but not for NYC, just the experiences. :)

monsterkidz
01-30-07, 09:39 PM
You guys ever hit up the little pizza spot on one of those sneaky dead blocks near Fordham U? Large pie and a pitcher of beer for less than $20 and they clang a gong when your pizza is ready. I ride up there some summer nights from Astoria just to hit that place up.

acavengo
01-30-07, 10:20 PM
You guys ever hit up the little pizza spot on one of those sneaky dead blocks near Fordham U? Large pie and a pitcher of beer for less than $20 and they clang a gong when your pizza is ready. I ride up there some summer nights from Astoria just to hit that place up.

Pugsley's Pizza. The owner is named Sal and he is a legend at Fordham U. One of the specials up there, the Sheila Special, is named after a friend of mine. I go there a lot in the winter b/c I go to Fordham hoops games.

monsterkidz, a ride there from Queens in the summer sounds awesome though. I'd be up for that at some point.

monsterkidz
01-31-07, 08:40 AM
monsterkidz, a ride there from Queens in the summer sounds awesome though. I'd be up for that at some point.

I'm down. Just keep me posted. Are you in Astoria too?

acavengo
01-31-07, 10:29 AM
I'm down. Just keep me posted. Are you in Astoria too?

Nope. I am out in Forest Hills, right across the highway from Flushing Meadow Lake, but I have to cut through Astoria to get to the Triboro.

na975
02-07-07, 09:00 AM
there are more people than would admit that ride fixie here Bronx , i saw one @ westchester sq. yesterday.

BronxFixieRider
07-07-09, 05:29 PM
I'm new to the forum. I noticed the last post here is from 2007. So whos still in the Bronx or new since then? A fixed gear bike in this borough seems to be a rare finding.

Possibly looking for some bronx peeps on fixed gear bikes to ride with. I commute to manhattan 3 to 4 days a week and sometimes go on night rides to City Island.

na975
07-13-09, 03:13 PM
i spot atleast 2 fixed gear riders daily.

BronxFixieRider
07-16-09, 04:34 PM
where do you ride na? I'm coming from Parkchester and take Boston rd to 3rd ave to get to work. I guess I don't do enough hanging in the Bx to see any.

na975
07-18-09, 06:35 AM
maybe i saw you ride around unionport Rd. ,do you have a conversion with a white colored riser bar?

BronxFixieRider
07-20-09, 10:07 PM
I do live on Unionport Rd above Keyfood but I have a black schwinn sprint with white tires.