How big is your scene?
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Originally Posted by jimmat
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This is the scene in RVA
Ya'll come on down, up or over.
Yes the Chinatown bus makes a stop here
This is the scene in RVA
Ya'll come on down, up or over.
Yes the Chinatown bus makes a stop here
so i just came here to make a post about richmond. i haven't hung out with the sprint club kids, though i do hear lots of nice people talking about them, but i also hear sprint club is overflowing with kids that are like "i am so badass that i just spent 3000 dollars on parts and spandex shorts alone." kind of like it's a fashion show or something. but, i have no right to speak about it because i'm new to the bicycle scene and don't know any of those people, so i'll shut up about that... but i do know that the vcu campus has a mix of kids who either: a) stare you down if they don't know you, or b) are super stoked and always interested in talking about bikes and helping me learn. so i can't really say what it's like here yet. hell, i haven't even learned to go fast without feeling like i'm going to die on my fg yet, so who am i to talk about sprintclub or anyone else. it's just... a city. with hipsters. lots of them. i am guilty of fitting into this group in many ways (irony... sorry), so again, no room to talk. just pointing things out that i've observed.
ps: probably one of four bikes on the racks on campus is a fg/ss. they're everywhere it seems.
pps: i just discovered this shop called re-cycles on 2611 cary that does cheap repairs and deals mostly in ss stuff. they seem like super cool guys that are interested in getting people riding and they are going to help me and my friend get her a ss built up. that's the most exciting part of the scene that i've found here, because everyone there is really nice, welcoming, and excited about bikes. and that's what matters.
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I am in Tallahassee, FL. There's no scene here. Never seen another fixie. Ever. Even on the "trendy FSU campus" It's hopeless, everyone here is too focused on how much our football team sucks, no one cares about riding.
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I think there is maybe 10 or so fixed gear riders here in chambana but I have seen progessively more over the last few months....maybe because i am more cognizant of it maybe because there are more
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3 that i know of in my town. That includes myself and 2 friends.
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i usually see at least one (and not mine) locked up to a street sign outside a cafe around here. LBS reports they've had to start stocking more SS/FG specific items. the SS mtb scene is really growing around here, but there are a good number of us FG roadies/commuters.
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i'm in bloomington, IN and there are a dick ton of roadies and dudes that ride little 5, but as far as fixies go, there are probably 20 tops and no one that rides track aside from the few of us that have ****ed around up in indy a little, but no one serious.
not many of us ever ride together.
not many of us ever ride together.
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Originally Posted by MLPROJECT
i'm in bloomington, IN and there are a dick ton of roadies and dudes that ride little 5, but as far as fixies go, there are probably 20 tops and no one that rides track aside from the few of us that have ****ed around up in indy a little, but no one serious.
not many of us ever ride together.
not many of us ever ride together.
as in, breaking away?
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my guess is that there are no more than 40-50 FG riders in and around downtown SD, but there are many others who ride track bikes (exclusively on the track) because we have a velodrome.
aside from FG, there are lots of cyclists here- good weather = mtb's, road bikes, beach cruisers, etc.
aside from FG, there are lots of cyclists here- good weather = mtb's, road bikes, beach cruisers, etc.
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Cool! I had no idea South Dakota was such a hip place!
Oh, and great pic queerpunk!
Oh, and great pic queerpunk!
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yes like breaking away. there are TONS of kids that ride solely because of that and are way into it. i don't know a whole lot about our road scene, but i see them meeitng all the time at the sample gates (gateway to campus), so i'm assuming its pretty steady.
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Portland has a ridiculous amount of fixies. I'd say that in some areas of the city the only bikes i see are one gears. That said, I'm the only one of my fat drunken frat dude circle of friends who actually gives a **** about exercise, much less cycling so I don't really know what the Portland scene is like. I wouldn't mind meeting some local peeps though, especially when I consider how much fun I have drinking and riding on my bike alone, much less with a large group of hooligans.
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Originally Posted by lbthomps
I think there is maybe 10 or so fixed gear riders here in chambana but I have seen progessively more over the last few months....maybe because i am more cognizant of it maybe because there are more
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There's probably around 10 fixed riders in Burlington, vt and lots more singlespeed due to the LBS here that cranks out conversions.
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Apparently, the scene is fairly large in MTL, I couldn't put numbers on it, but it's messers galore. I, unfortunately, have yet to meet anyone or any group for unknown reasons. Perhaps it's because I an SS rider from midtown.
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Originally Posted by gutter hipster
There's probably around 10 fixed riders in Burlington, vt and lots more singlespeed due to the LBS here that cranks out conversions.
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Originally Posted by food
Apparently, the scene is fairly large in MTL, I couldn't put numbers on it, but it's messers galore. I, unfortunately, have yet to meet anyone or any group for unknown reasons. Perhaps it's because I an SS rider from midtown.
there are probably only about 10 people tops that actually come to any sort of races or anything that ride fixed in MTL...
as for people riding fixed the numbers have jumped a lot over the past year...i remember last year this time there were only like 4 or 5 people that i ever saw on track bikes...now i see them everywhere
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you should come to the ice race on february 4
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Originally Posted by mattface
Yeah I saw a Peaugot up there recently with a Surly hub, and a freewheel on it. It woulda made a nice fixie. Old Spokes home looks like a cool place. I've been wanting to check it out. Last time I was up in Burly I waited outside in the cold for like 45 minutes for them to open up. Eventually I got bored and went downtown for a bit before making the trek up the the Grand Isle Ferry. I still wanna check them out, next tiem I guess I won' expect them to be open at the time it says on the door. Probably a buncha hipppies that run the place
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i am my own scene, there's a handful of other fixed gear riders in my city, but i never see them, so i am sceneless