Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - why?

Ok, so im sitting at my favorite coffee shop, outside, where its raining a little, thats when i see it. Some sissy-lala is driving around in there brand new toyota tacoma..........with a beautiful matching bianchi pista proudly sittin in the bed. I would really like to know what this loser was thinking, why have a bike like that to throw in the back of your pickup. I live in a town of about 50,000, there is no reason to drive, anywhere, certainly not if you have a bike that fly.

why go to a coffee shop when you can make coffee in your house?

Maybe he or she is a track racer and dose not want to ride there bike on the streets. If I raced track I would not ride my track bike on the street.

Two guesses. a) he's a beginning trackie. That's his track ride and he's on his (or her!) way to the 'drome.... nah. b) Dude, how else is a guy supposed to get to the bike path?

I mean, sorry, but this is the USA. I don't know why you're surprised that people drive their bikes to and fro in their cars. It's just the way it is.

It could be for some one else and he or she is picking up from the shop.

c) he has a flat and is taking it to his LBS to have professionally repaired.

d) It is not his, but a present for his son who wanted a nagasawa.

ok, i said 50,000 there is to track here.....and come on , if they cared that much about there bike it would be in the rainy bed, it would be in the cab.

If a pista is "fly" then that makes my langster the schitt right?

to=no

Yes, but once you have that truck, you can DRIVE to the track. (it's true and sometimes a necessary evil)

Maybe he has a knee injury and didn't want his pista to forget what wind blowing through its hair was like.

I work with someone who has a hairy bike. It was a bison all last winter (horns and all!) and then this spring struck with a horrible horrible case of mange.

why go to a coffee shop when you can make coffee in your house?
why type on a computer when you can write in your hand-pressed paper journal?

Because I type so much faster than I write longhand. And I get to annoy more people.

Next question?

HE MUST ANSWER THE COFFEE QUESTION OR WE WITHHOLD PIE!!!!!

Dieses ist Richtlinie meines Führers.

maybe he was on a trip and passing through your town?

maybe it was a "buy a truck get a track bike at Totyota" buying incentive

Maybe he STOLE it and was driving it to the pawn shop.

maybe he ****ing sucks

Next question?
Yes.

That is not a question?

That is not a question?
Is yours! Tell me?

No.

you win. go make copies...I am drinking sake

I work with someone who has a hairy bike. It was a bison all last winter (horns and all!) and then this spring struck with a horrible horrible case of mange.

OH MY GOD!!!!! i remember that bike!! that thing was....something special, alright!

Haiku 1v

methinks the driver is lost
perhaps a bike thief
along the paved road to hell

the town he's from probably sucks so
he came to yours to do some riding.

I do it all the time.
jeff

maybe his truck was getting serviced and he rode his bike to pick it up?

and, really, i don't give a monkey what anybody else does with their bike. unless he was dragging it by a chain down the street behind his truck. then i would probably stare, point, and scratch my head.

man we are all really fkn bored at work aren't we.. i actually read every single reply. oh jeez..

i'm going back to throwing away money on ebay. lates.

Update, I saw the guy this morning on the way to the library, riding. He was not amused when i asked him where his derailer was. Chunky looking older guy in college sports apparel. I guess he must have just gotten it. When he came to the intersection he turned left on to the sidewalk and went half a block waiting for traffic so he could cross. Oh, coffee shops have girls, my house, unfortunetely, does not.

was he being a snob and thinking that you really didn't understand why he had no derailer? or did he realize you understood fixers but he just didn't want to play along?

and what were you riding?

(bored at work)

I'm pretty sure he thought I was just some smart @ss kid, oh wait, I am. He didn't stop and explain anything, which is what i would have done if someone would have said that to me. I want as many people to know the wonders of the fixey. I think its cool that hes doing it, but hes got the $600, all chrome pista set up from the shop in salem. I've drooled over his bike several times. dam, i wish he would have turned around, but like i said, he still hasn't figured out the stopping thing yet, it appears. I will get my bike back from the bastard who stole it and show this guy how to track stand and wait for traffic.

I, unfortunetly, was walking. No bikey, no ridey. I've grown tired of riding my tandem everywhere. I thought it would help with the ladies....no dice. So im turning my newly dumpstered centurion on to a ss until i can get some flow for a real bike. what do you think of centurions.

fixinskitchin=rock.

once critical mass in pdx came up on a huge dodge ram with a cdale tandem in the back. we tried to get them to ride with us. tbut hey were haters and we ended up yelling at eachother. it was fun.

Good news, nice people in the world, stolen fixie returned. I would praise jesus but hes dead. ah, fuk it, hallalujah

why go to a coffee shop when you can make coffee in your house?

Atmosphere, socializing?

Good news, nice people in the world, stolen fixie returned.

Details on the wayward fixies return?

marty

Good news, nice people in the world, stolen fixie returned. I would praise jesus but hes dead. ah, fuk it, hallalujah

Sweet!! Must be a great day for you..happy, happy, joy, joy!

Abou 2 weeks ago it got stolen off of my friends porch, it somehow wasn't locked. I had gotten home around 3 in the morning, put it on the porch went to bed. When i got up some hours later it was gone. I had assumed that some dumbass frat boy stole it and rode it home. I fully expected to see it in the next couple of days. this is a pretty small town and everyone knows that bike. After some serious searching i was beginning to have my doubts. I had resorted myself to temping my centurion as a ss. I got a phone call from my friend laura yesterday telling me she saw a flyer saying something like, found fixed gear/trackstyle bicycle, call to describe. I called him and described it to the last chip in the paint. I honestly screamed like a little girl when he said it was mine, i was on the bus. I asked him where i could meet him to get the bike. He asked where i was and even rode the ****ing thing over to me. Super nice guy, interested in fixies, wants to build one. I said i would gladly help him anyday. I am thinking i need to buy him a case of beer or something.
I think the bastard who stole it couldn't figure out how to ride it and ditched it on the side of the road. Poor poor bicycle. we live around a lot of frats.

daddy's gotcha

fixinskitchin=trekkie280
or at least seperated at the wussy at birth..

Praise Bicycle Jesus (http://www.deadbabybikes.org/bjjump.htm).