mswantak

Browse the past couple days at the San Francisco CL bikes section; the natives are getting restless!

Poguemahone

Haw! Having ridden FGs for far too long, I have been amazed and amused by their recent heptitudiness (They're now so hip that I have at last reached my lifelong goal of being a poseur), but that is really ridiculous... it's a bike. Ride it, enjoy it, ignore the cruel dictates of fashion and style.

luker

I have a 1978ish Raleigh Competition that's rigged as a fixie. Has been for a loooong time. I ride it every time I do something really bad, as penance. How could such a fine instrument of torture turn into an icon of heptitudiness (did I spell that right?)

lotek 

what is clbikes? I'm pretty craigslist illiterate.
Then again I'm probably a poseur too.

Marty

salome

so much hate in a city of love . . .

using the same logic, it's so flat in chicago someone could start dissing those with gears since they just add weight and are 'useless'.

whatever.

what a stupid thing to post on CL. people will pick up on anything just to be angry and spew it on everyone else.

salome

SF bike rant on craigslist

ostro

a bunch of sad sad people . . . classic im-more-punk-then-you a holes

Mhendricks

mswantek glad we live in the East Bay and South Bay. Reading those bashings made me understand why San Francisco is not the "City of Brotherly Love" No wonder so many bikes get stolen there.

Ken Cox

I had heard about Craigslist but not visited it before.
Fascinating.

When I got interested in fixed gear bikes, I had no idea they had become popular or the next big thing.
What a disappointment: I don't like doing popular things.
My wife points out, though, that everything I do becomes popular.
Which raises the question: do these things come to me and everyone else out of the ether?
Or, do I cause these things by taking an interest in them?

I could do an experiment.
I could take an interest in, or start a hobby in something completely random, or perhaps even repellent, and see if it becomes the next big thing.

I never see a fixed gear bike here in Bend.
Well, once.
However, the tourists come up to me and tell me that everyone rides fixies in their home city.
Quite the latest.
How embarrassing.
Happily, my friends out here in the sticks don't know about the fixie craze, and so no one has yet called me a poseur to my face.
Thank goodness I don't live in San Francisco.

Given my 58 years, and the fact that I look 58 years old, I wonder how many people think I ride a fixed gear bike because I can't afford a car (or a real bike), or because I had a DUI conviction and lost my driver's license.
How many people see me as a mid-life crisis goofy?
Oh no.
What do people think of me?
Lions and Tigers and Bears!

In the meantime, I'll just forget I know about all this stuff, and I'll somehow manage to enjoy my bike and my stupid poseur Campagnolo peanut butter wrench anyway.

justin79

Why do people use craigslist as a message board in the first place? I didn't think it was intended to be used as such or am I wrong?

mcatano

Because they're too effing stupid to post their crap in the "rants and raves" section.

m.

karmical

don't believe the hype, this happens everytime some guy/gal loses their girl/boy or while they are in bed their girl/boy makes some reference about their wo/manhood well lack thereof, and how much of a stud/studmuffin they would be if they rode fixed...

i live in the eastbay, work in sf, go through the mission days without seeing other fixed gear bikes, but then there are days where every other bike is fixed...

jinx_removing

Recently there was some BS on the Myspace fixed gear army board along the lines of this crap. I think the brat that started it all actually posts here too, how can a 19 year old kid from Wisconsin call out others for being trendy? The sad thing is some Boston folks got involved, some of which I used to be really good friends with, and it really lowered my opinion of them. Why do poeple feel like they are in a special fixed gear group? Let everyone ride fixies, why would you even care?

The following quote just about sums it up for me:

"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile." - Pahlaniuk

Just because you bought a fixie last year doesn't mean you got "into it" before anyone else or that you are special in any way.

-end rant

Sorry, this post is just as immature as the ones on CL but I just had to get that off of my chest.

karmical

am i the only one that finds this funny

jinx_removing

I would just like to say that your posts rule.

If we are going by some peoples standards you might be the King of All Hipsters, at least if we were going by seniority.

Long live Ken Cox, the oldest and wisest of all poseur hipsters!

Disclaimer: Before anyone gets their panites in a bunch, this a joke.

jinx_removing

meh, it kills the time at work, just like this place.

salome

i haven't heard studmuffin used in a sentence forever. it's one of those visual words that i like to stay away from but can't help be drawn to. and beefcake too.

it's like seeing a dead animal with all its guts spewn around on the road, i don't want to look at it but i end up going over to it and poking around for awhile.

dirtydan

Yeah, SF is weird as of late. Or maybe I'm just noticing it too. Theres a lot of bad attitudes when riding around, and its a bit disappointing.

ostro

Dirtydan, i have noticed this too, with people in general, it seems that social attitudes are changing here. Sometimes i feel like i am back in OC with meathead and alpha dog attitudes. The music scene down there developed the air of, im more punk then you, i have more tats, years under my belt, rare-import-first-colored-picture-disc-error-pressing, patches on my leather jacket, grind marks on my trucks etc...

karmical

its not that bad.....really....its not....

bostontrevor

Personally I love this crap. I'm surprised that it doesn't happen there more. I know the Boston CL bike section periodically erupts in various pinching and hair-pulling feuds. Some have been about fixed gears and poseurs. Many have been about James at Revolution Bikes. Many have been from James.

It's great. It's like mud wrestling, but less sexy.

ostro

i dont mean to paint the darkest picture, but every now and then it is like that. I work and am a student at SF state (im here about 60 hours a week), so perhaps my impression is skewed bit more then others.

jim-bob

I paint darker pictures than you.

My impression is more skewed and was skewed long before yours was.

redfooj

i converted only a few months ago... when can i get my Decoder Ring?

BlastRadius

At least we have each other