Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Are you probably a hipster?

You may not want to admit it. But it's probably been said about you.

probably has.

I'm hip, and I ride a bicycle BUT my taste in clothes, and bikes exclude me.

Only time will tell. Right now I'm hipster because I've been riding for only a few weeks. In exactly 383 days, if I'm still riding, I will no longer be hipster.

i don't think my pants are tight enough to be a hipster

there's way way waaaaaaayyy worse things out there to be than a hipster.

are we really still complaining about this?

also, buying a fixie no longer qualifies you as hip. its certainly not cycling-specific.

This is the Nteenth f***ing time this topic has been threaded. Stop it!!! Some things can happen in your head and not need to be typed on a screen.

there's way way waaaaaaayyy worse things out there to be than a hipster.

are we really still complaining about this?

also, buying a fixie no longer qualifies you as hip. its certainly not cycling-specific.

I wasn't complaining. I just think it's funny. I've never really heard anyone call themselves a hipster. Mainly because if you call yourself a hipster, you're a poser. I'm just wondering how many people think they probably are. Which may or may not actually make them a hipster. Hipster logic is mind boggling.

i know you mean well, but just remember that there are worse things people can shoot at you than just dirty looks in brooklyn. williamsburg is only gonna be hip for so long!

there's way way waaaaaaayyy worse things out there to be than a hipster.

are we really still complaining about this?

also, buying a fixie no longer qualifies you as hip. its certainly not cycling-specific.

I got my first "fixie" twenty-two years ago. I'm hip because I'm hip... the fact that I ride bikes just makes me fit as well as hip.

Sometimes this place is like a junior high.

yes:
*vegan
*rides a fixed gear
*rides an Italian road bike
*has a messenger bag
*stretched ears
*tattoos

no:
*races (road and track)
*wears non-tight clothing
*wears tight clothing, but it's spandex
*straight-edge
*engineering/science degree
*software engineer

So I don't know, you tell me.

I havnt been on here in a minute. never really was. Seems hipsters are still a topic of conversation. Hipsters ride FG's. . . they will inevitably be on this forum. Why does it matter?

No, I'm too old, too out of any fashion, and ride a San Jose with front AND rear brakes. My helmet cost more than most of the bikes in the SS/FG and my spandex collection is immense.

heh heh, bbattle yer kinda my role model a little.

<3 <3 <3

Fausto Coppi while out on a training ride with his brother. Hipster?

http://gallery.mac.com/bbattle/100183/Clothes03/web.jpg

Fausto Coppi while out on a training ride with his brother. Hipster?

http://gallery.mac.com/bbattle/100183/Clothes03/web.jpg

Where'd their necks go?

i guess so. i wear ironic shirts sometimes, ride fixed gear bicycles, drink pbr, wear messenger bags, etc.

stereotyping, i guess.

What exactly is the pants tightness cut-off before they become hipster-esque?

raver < 99-03 frat boy < your dad < your mums < fashionable if you're in shape < hipster < ranch hand < 80s NYC coke queens

why is PBR hip?

Being that pretty much all of my pants are Levis 514's...
I think those would sit somewhere around hipster tightness.
Thus, hipster I am.

I have hips therefore I am a hipster

why is PBR hip?

PBR has been considered the "working man's beer" since the 1840's or something like that. Why the fixies adopted that brand of beer I really have no idea, except for the messenger angle. Maybe Bud is for the NASCAR crowd.

I'll have a glass of full-bodied Merlot wine with my fixie, thank you!

i'm just gonna throw this out there: slim jeans feel and look way cooler that baggy ones. i'm not sure if the cut of my pants qualifies me as hip, but if it does then being hip is easy!

yes:
*vegan
*rides a fixed gear
*rides an Italian road bike
*has a messenger bag
*stretched ears
*tattoos

no:
*races (road and track)
*wears non-tight clothing
*wears tight clothing, but it's spandex
*straight-edge
*engineering/science degree
*software engineer

So I don't know, you tell me.

Guess im a hipster:thumb:

i feel like so many people try so hard to not be hip for the sake of being "different". who cares, where what you like.

30, married and bald.
501's since 1992. Same with Sambas.
dont drink
camel lights ( but not for much longer)
hate toe clips
but I did rock a spinergy front and flat bars in 99. My frame's stiffness was killing me.

I sincerely doubt I am a hipster. I have probably been called sexy more ( but not many more)

I've been called a doofus, so I'm most of the way there.

I actually like the taste of PBR. It's sort of like boozy water.

if i say yes what do i win?

yes:
*vegan -
*rides a fixed gear
*rides an Italian road bike
*has a messenger bag
*stretched ears
*tattoos

no:
*races (road and track)
*wears non-tight clothing
*wears tight clothing, but it's spandex
*straight-edge
*engineering/science degree
*software engineer

So I don't know, you tell me.

well im veggie, and sXe.. i ride a surly.. but i do have stretched ears, tattoos, jerseys and a messenger bag.. i guess im confused :crash:

yes:
*vegan
*rides a fixed gear
*rides an Italian road bike
*has a messenger bag
*stretched ears
*tattoos

no:
*races (road and track)
*wears non-tight clothing
*wears tight clothing, but it's spandex
*straight-edge
*engineering/science degree
*software engineer

So I don't know, you tell me.

Hmm. I am

*vegan
*ride a fixed gear (about half the time)
*ride a colorful Italian road bike
*Have a messenger bag (but find it somewhat impractical)
*Tattoos

and

*Tours
*Mnt Bikes
*Wears shorts and kilts
*wears tight clothing but it is Spandex
*graduate student in pure mathematics

yea sure

It's not the mind.... it's the fashion.

Being that pretty much all of my pants are Levis 514's...
I think those would sit somewhere around hipster tightness.
Thus, hipster I am.

514s are the best.

a hipster is many things to many people

i think this about sums it up http://catandgirl.com/view.php?loc=299 (lifted from someone cant remember who's sig)

If hipster = cool, here is a good barometer (http://www.bspcn.com/2008/05/15/10-items-you-think-make-you-cool-but-don%e2%80%99t/).

30, married and bald.
501's since 1992. Same with Sambas.
dont drink
camel lights ( but not for much longer)
hate toe clips
but I did rock a spinergy front and flat bars in 99. My frame's stiffness was killing me.

I sincerely doubt I am a hipster. I have probably been called sexy more ( but not many more)

Whoa.

26. Married and close cut hair.
501's since middle school. Sambas or Gazelles since high school. Black only.
Drink
Camel Lights, maybe 3 or 4 a day.
Hate toe clips.
Had those ****ty 6 spoke Spinergys on a mountain bike back in the late 90's.

Yeah. I think we're both hipsters, just older ones.

Whoa.

Yeah. I think we're both hipsters, just older ones.

And it's official. I got called a hipster. Can I change my vote?

If hipster = cool, here is a good barometer (http://www.bspcn.com/2008/05/15/10-items-you-think-make-you-cool-but-don%e2%80%99t/).

and someone else reads Fark.

And it's official. I got called a hipster. Can I change my vote?

Sorry guy. Congrats on the unban though.

And it's official. I got called a hipster. Can I change my vote?

Absolutely!

Good to see you back, abeyance :D .

East Hill

No. I ride a single speed. But I am a vegan. But I carry a gun. My pants are not tight. I dont wear funny hats.

I'm too fat

i bet i look like a hipster when i ride but whatever.

i wear the tight jeans (amazing to skate in with 2% spandex/cotton blend) and the american apparel shirts (make me look skinnier than i really am)

Everyone who posted in this thread is a hipster.

Now how's that for tweaking the data?

yes:
*vegan
*rides a fixed gear
*rides an Italian road bike
*has a messenger bag
*stretched ears
*tattoos

no:
*races (road and track)
*wears non-tight clothing
*wears tight clothing, but it's spandex
*straight-edge
*engineering/science degree
*software engineer

So I don't know, you tell me.

Shouldn't the facts that you are still vegan and still have your ears streched, that is, they don't look like shrunken *******s, less your hipster qualifications?

Shouldn't the facts that you are still vegan and still have your ears streched, that is, they don't look like shrunken *******s, less your hipster qualifications?

No, not at all.

Plus you are the biggest hipster I know. I kid I kid.

I'm too fat

word! me too and have too much money

probably . . more like definitely