Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - coming from a small city I didn't quite get all the "hipster" .....

......**** giving so much.
but after a week in NYC I get it a bit more, even more so than LA and SF.
I saw a guy riding up Rivington st ,on the lower eastside of NYC, in super skinny jeans ,white,sleeveless shirt ,pink, white plastic aviator sunglasses, long mullety hair,........but the best part was the ankle dress boots with no toe clips or brakes

"give a hipster a brake" if not a least some toe straps and clips. WOW!

this thread will go nowhere good fast.

I love my new road bike.

I love my new road bike.

You and me both.

I also love my spandex.

And Wayne Newton. (Not ironically.)

Interesting.
I wouldve thought it would take a lot more time in NYC to aquire a bad attitude.

I love cheese and whiskey and sunshine.

So what exactly does it feel like to be the only hipster in a small city?

Kidding...kidding...

Rye RYE, Wiskey! is the best neat, or with some soda bit o ice, damm good,


p.s. Why do these rediculously dressed fools, ride'n round looking like compleat @$$holes, bother you, let the fools have there tight jeans and silly glasses, How did they personally do you wrong?

hey i wear skinny jeans and yesterday i had on a sleeveless white tshirt

i hope that doesn't make me a hipster oh no!!!!1!!1!11

mostly it was the boots and the lack of toe clips and brakes.

mostly it was the boots and the lack of toe clips and brakes.

When I was out there over fourth of July, this seemed to be de rigueur for riding a fixed gear bike in New York. 'Not saying there aren't a lot of talented and strong riders, but it certainly seemed that the unskilled and unsafe novices outnumbered the responsible riders by orders of magnitude.

sniks i knew youd come around

want to admit that risers are stupid while youre at it
?

i was in nyc this past week and i saw a guy on a singlespeed with no brakes and a freewheel, slowing down by putting his foot on the back wheel and yelling for people to get out of his way

now that's badass

i was in nyc this past week and i saw a guy on a singlespeed with no brakes and a freewheel, slowing down by putting his foot on the back wheel and yelling for people to get out of his way

now that's badass

Badass? You mean ********.

us hipsters pull more chicks than you.

Badass? You mean ********.

Stop making fun of me!

i was in nyc this past week and i saw a guy on a singlespeed with no brakes and a freewheel, slowing down by putting his foot on the back wheel and yelling for people to get out of his way

now that's badass

i'm imagining this guy barreling down the sidewalk screaming like a maniac on PCP, steam blowing out of his ears with his hair on fire

so you saw someone dressed cooler than you and were jealous? nice.

us hipsters pull more chicks than you.

hard to pull chick when married and getting ready to have kids.

sniks i knew youd come around

want to admit that risers are stupid while youre at it
?

nope!

riser stems with angled up bullhorns are stupid!

;)

so you saw someone dressed cooler than you and were jealous? nice.

"cooler than"
is just an opinion. different strokes.

but brakelesss and no toe clips is just dumb.

sorrry don't know how to do multiple quotes in on reply.

but brakelesss and no toe clips is just dumb.


yeah, good point.

I'm just jealous of people who can wear skinny jeans.

i'd take great offense to this post, but i'm too fat to be a hipster...

Although, in my experience, the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters themselves....

I understand why the OP had a problem with the way the guy was riding. It is kinda dumb, but there's no reason to criticize his fashion. Who cares if the guy wants to dress like an idiot....

it takes maturity to accept people as they are. you should be happy to see some variety. what's the alternative...hordes of people who all dress and act the same way? no thanks.

......**** giving so much.
but after a week in NYC I get it a bit more, even more so than LA and SF.
I saw a guy riding up Rivington st ,on the lower eastside of NYC, in super skinny jeans ,white,sleeveless shirt ,pink, white plastic aviator sunglasses, long mullety hair,........but the best part was the ankle dress boots with no toe clips or brakes

"give a hipster a brake" if not a least some toe straps and clips. WOW!

So, did anyone get any pictures of you in this getup? :lol:

I've seen the same fixed, no brakes, no clips/straps/clipless pedals in Toronto as well as NYC. They're either very very good or very very stupid.

Wool suits and topcoats--- maybe a monocle. Mr. Peanut on a bike.

I've seen the same fixed, no brakes, no clips/straps/clipless pedals in Toronto as well as NYC. They're either very very good or very very stupid.

Very, very stupid. I've gone around with a few locals on this, and they seriously don't understand what's wrong with riding brakeless with platforms. A friend and I tried to get a guy to demonstrate his emergency stop, and he basically Fred-Flintstoned it, after attempting in vain to slow his bike with this meat-mashers. He ultimately came to a stop by turning sharply right and slamming his foot into the curb and basically leaping from the bicycle.

The thing I've noticed about these people is that they either seem to think you don't or you CAN'T run brakes on a fixed gear bike, but they don't know enough about bikes to think that all the way through.

The thing I've noticed about these people is that they either seem to think you don't or you CAN'T run brakes on a fixed gear bike, but they don't know enough about bikes to think that all the way through.

"dood, its a fixed gear, fixies don't have brakes, duh!"

Very, very stupid. I've gone around with a few locals on this, and they seriously don't understand what's wrong with riding brakeless with platforms. A friend and I tried to get a guy to demonstrate his emergency stop, and he basically Fred-Flintstoned it, after attempting in vain to slow his bike with this meat-mashers. He ultimately came to a stop by turning sharply right and slamming his foot into the curb and basically leaping from the bicycle.


lolol

was it sniks
?

"dood, its a fixed gear, fixies don't have brakes, duh!"

Perhaps Darwin is trying to tell us something; let them ride.

lolol

was it sniks
?

eat me beeyatch!
i ran a front brake for many months before I bought an undrilled frame.
and have a fixed bike with brakes.and deffinatly have clips and straps on all of them.

I wouldn't have problems with hipsters out here in SF if they stopped giving me **** about having a brake on my fixie. I came here by way of single speed mountain bikes, you can pry my front brake from my cold dead hands.

Also I'm tired of 18 year olds on their first bikes lecturing me when I've been riding for over a decade, have had all kinds of bikes, and have seen all kinds of fads. I'm not telling them how to live their lives, where is the unjustified elitism coming from?

Stop making fun of me!

lol

in my experience, the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters themselves....


this really does seem to be true, it's a kind of overcompensation ...

i'm so not hip. I identify all these hipsterish looking ppl in my area as emo kids.. so.. which is it, emo or hipster.. or can an emo kid be a hipster..

i don't get it, i never was that cool :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28music%29 go go 'real' screamo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28slang%29

and of course, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%28contemporary_subculture%29
"A hipster is an individual who avoids and often explicitly rejects whatever is seen as mainstream or corporate in nature, instead embracing alternative forms of expression" LULZ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28music%29 go go 'real' screamo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28slang%29

and of course, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%28contemporary_subculture%29
"A hipster is an individual who avoids and often explicitly rejects whatever is seen as mainstream or corporate in nature, instead embracing alternative forms of expression" LULZ


seem like the same ****ing thing to me.. whatever, i'm goin for a ride, grabbin a pint and getting some dinner

I wouldn't have problems with hipsters out here in SF if they stopped giving me **** about having a brake on my fixie. I came here by way of single speed mountain bikes, you can pry my front brake from my cold dead hands.

Also I'm tired of 18 year olds on their first bikes lecturing me when I've been riding for over a decade, have had all kinds of bikes, and have seen all kinds of fads. I'm not telling them how to live their lives, where is the unjustified elitism coming from?

just out of curiosity, where/when/how do you experience this attitude from SF hipsters. i ride in the city all the time -- with TWO brakes -- and i never get made fun of.

I wear size 4 women's jeans, cut off just above the knee, exclusively vintage t-shirts and vans slides sans socks that coordinate with my blue faux ray-bans and military style cap, and find flat hair ties to be gentler on my mullet. I listen to a shuffle of The Blow, Girl Talk, A-trak and occasionally the Decembrists. I some-what despise being a hipster, but take pride in who I am. Though, most of all, I take pride in my record group Carlton that can smoke your big-city-high-horse-cycle any day of the week - all hail The Dresden Dolls.

just out of curiosity, where/when/how do you experience this attitude from SF hipsters. i ride in the city all the time -- with TWO brakes -- and i never get made fun of.

I'm curious too. I had no idea that people get made fun of anywhere for running a brake. That just seems kind of sad.

i'm the only guy in this pichttp://www.blaker.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Brick%20Lane%20hipsters.jpg
sike, google images is funny

sweet pic http://www.williamsburgnerd.com/images/l-train-hipsters-01.jpg

http://www.neatorama.com/images/2005-10/hipster-bingo.jpg

man...those pics basically sum up Seattle

apparently "hipster" is also a type of woman's panty that also hugs the hips.. I *highly* recommend doing a google image search if you appreciate .. ya kno, that kinda thing :)

(might have to have safe-seach off)

NSFW!!

Hipster Crystal Stripe: http://wickedweasel.com/items.asp?id=157

At least we dont have to deal with thesehttp://69.93.14.237/images/chav.jpg

At least we dont have to deal with thesehttp://69.93.14.237/images/chav.jpg

...as long as we manage to avoid Pioneer Square.