Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Fixie chicks, Philly style

http://www.phlmetropolis.com/2010/12/a-field-guide-to-fixie-chicks.php

Maybe it's my cynical nature, but I couldn't get past the asinine term "fixie chicks".

Seriously?

Sorry man.

Tl:dr

I know chicks who can ride a fixie better than I do.

Wait, what is this about?

http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/73/11/64821173/photos/squirrels/funny-pictures-nuts-birds.jpg

eh...i rage'd at quite a few points in that article.

people who ride bikes for fashion reasons are dults. in fact, i laugh every time people criticize the materialism of the mainstream and then gloat over their bike schwag.

I hate it.

expected hot fixie chick fotos

diasappoint.

Becky James
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/imageBank/cache/v/vartmpgallery-migration-83-temp-dirgalleryimage3860-Becky_James.jpg_e_d245760c34e9421f12da463c15f72e5b.jpg

Yvonne Hijgenaar
http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000B4EhL_2WVNM/s

Lizzie Armitstead
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/imageBank/a/Armitstead1.jpg

Jess Varnish
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01787/Jessica_Varnish_1787476b.jpg

Lizzie again
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01372/wendy_houvenaghel_1372487c.jpg

Alison Shanks
http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/UCI+Track+World+Championships+Day+One+oXwWH8dHL8sl.jpg

Not exactly self-aggrandizing, but 'saluting' one's self seems a little over the top to me. :rolleyes:

still waiting for photos of hot fixie chicks......

i too am dissapoint.

Please don't associate this too strongly with my city.

still waiting for photos of hot fixie chicks......

i too am dissapoint.

thirded.

waste of time to read

Props to squirelly but I preffer the ones you can find on the street.

They don't do it for money....wait...never mind ;)

192265
http://www.bikeforums.net/images/misc/pencil.png

Is that article from 2008 or something?

am disappoint muchly


all your base are belong to us


where are your baby bolts mine are missing

fixie chicks = fixfixfix

gag

I don't often post here, but the title caught my eye.

I briefly dated a fixie chick. We could talk about bikes all day/night long, but I'm just not a fixed type of guy.

fixie chicks = fixfixfix

I was just about to poast this. Great website... or greatest website?

I was just about to poast this. Great website... or greatest website?

greatest website... just made my day finding this...

this article was a complete waste of my precious time...

What happened to the victoria pendleton thread? She is amazing

http://www.phlmetropolis.com/2010/12/a-field-guide-to-fixie-chicks.php

A wee bit sad ... :thumb:


Fixie Chicks are not rational people.
But I salute them, us (although we resent being classified as a group).
I salute our choice of elegance over common sense.
I salute our intrusion on a predominantly male world.
I salute the importance we attach to one small cog.
I salute our ragged beauty. And, as a Fixie Chick,
I swear and aver I will not roll my pantleg down.

http://www.phlmetropolis.com/Fixed%20Gear%20Bike.bmp

http://www.thefixfixfix.com/fix/wp-content/gallery/heather-and-her-state-bicycle/heather-8.jpg
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http://theora.com/images/Flying%20Squirrel.jpg
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http://blogs.sun.com/lyon/resource/341px-Chris_Hoy.jpg

She's going the wrong way, brah.

dood if she gets down in those drops her hair will get caught in her spokzzz

foot down and non-drive side photo? Barf.

Nice quads, though.

sure thats a lady? looks like my brother after coming back from a mott the hoople show

That's Chris Hoy

wtfwtf... w. t. f.

That article read more like a horoscope for another newly discovered astrological sign. Gotta love sweeping generalizations though.

She spends the entire article classifying people into four groups. Groups 1 & 2 she sneers at. She puts herself in group 3, which she makes sound noble. Group 4 she worships, but says contains only 3 or 4 people. And then she finishes with...

" Fixie Chicks are not rational people. But I salute them, us (although we resent being classified as a group). "

Lame

she speaks a lot of truth though groups two and three are basically the same. i know shes got good intentions since shes a volunteer with @http://www.neighborhoodbikeworks.org/.

That entire article is a mockery of journalism.

And females who ride bikes.

http://www.thefixfixfix.com/fix/wp-content/gallery/heather-and-her-state-bicycle/heather-8.jpg
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http://theora.com/images/Flying%20Squirrel.jpg
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http://blogs.sun.com/lyon/resource/341px-Chris_Hoy.jpg

So flying squirrels know how to perform sex realignment surgery?
+ rep for flying squirrels in my book.

why is she trying to label herself, just ride to ride...i don't hate on "hipsters" because at least they are on a bike. and i don't understand when a girl rides a fixie how it is any different from a guy...i'm not sexist or anything but shouldn't we be treated equally?

i don't understand when a girl rides a fixie how it is any different from a guy...i'm not sexist or anything but shouldn't we be treated equally?
For one, SSFG is a dick fest and second, it's double standard.

cycling is a dick fest
ftfy

I read the article as entertainment rather than gospel, and I liked it.

Sexist me, I find women who can relate to machines very attractive.

Some years ago we had a stripper in this town who rode a Ducati motorcycle with great style.

A very pretty girl, her choice in motorcycles and her ability to ride impressed me more than her appearance.

And, a woman who rides a fixed gear bike well gets my attention.

Very cool.

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An aside: it amazes me that in today's world anyone can still make a living as a bike messenger.

My lady rides fixed. I actually got her into riding fixed, and she can outlast me on a ride more than 15 miles. All those spinning classes she took paid off! No pics of my asian girlfriend, thanks.

I love fixed chicks...













cos can has sex with no rubber, knowtimsayin?

/nb4lock

Wow, that's a really bad article.

Really, really bad. Cringe inducing.

Not only as a female who rides fixed but also as a female in general, I find crap like this really embarrassing. The way she divides us "Fixie Chicks" (this alone gives me the idiot shivers) into 4 tidy little subcategories and then proceeds to list the rules and set of necessary characteristics which makes one fall comfortably into one of those predetermined little facets of an already overhyped subculture is both laughable and sad.

"Fixie Chicks are divided into four distinct strata" so whatever you do girls, don't get caught riding your bike without wearing one of the uniforms and acting accordingly!

:twitchy:

"Fixie Chicks are divided into four distinct strata" so whatever you do girls, don't get caught riding your bike without wearing one of the uniforms and acting accordingly!

yeah and get in the kitchen and make me some pie!!

mmmm pie
http://twofoldgaze.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/pi_pie2.jpg

yeah and get in the kitchen and make me some pie!!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/125381645_0183c22b01.jpg

Not only as a female who rides fixed but also as a female in general, I find crap like this really embarrassing. The way she divides us "Fixie Chicks" (this alone gives me the idiot shivers) into 4 tidy little subcategories and then proceeds to list the rules and set of necessary characteristics which makes one fall comfortably into one of those predetermined little facets of an already overhyped subculture is both laughable and sad.

"Fixie Chicks are divided into four distinct strata" so whatever you do girls, don't get caught riding your bike without wearing one of the uniforms and acting accordingly!

:twitchy:
"Idiot shivers." That's perfect.