brunop

**** spoke cards! anybody know where to get spokey-dokes?

MrCjolsen

Funny, when I first heard of spoke cards, I thought the person was referring to attaching cards to your frame with a clothespin in order to have your bike make noise as you rode like I did when I was a kid.

Now, since I have the only Fixed gear bike that was built and painted by first graders, should I use pokemon cards or our sound-spellng cards from our reading program?

brunning

dude, loctite them.

humancongereel

no, no, no. rotafixa.

killsurfcity

i won't use the t-word, but something about this guys tone in both threads seems a bit derisive. not a good way to introduce your self to a group of people whom i have seen to have an overwhelming breadth of useful knowledge and the propensity to give it up willingly when asked.

just sayin'...

ZappCatt

you gotta cut him some slack...he is from Davis, CA, the cow tippin capitol of CA (if not the USA). He just found a new hobby that is as fun for him and is itchin to learn!!!

hyperRevue

That's all I'm really sayin, too.

stormywaters

well, i just came off as a complete arsehole. good times.

hyperRevue

Haha, I had NO IDEA what you were talking about.
I was like, "Why the hell does this kid think I'm talking about him**********"
No worries.

onetwentyeight 

poor mans disc wheel.

midwestyelling

they are a physical manifestation of (bike) scene points.

MrCjolsen

So what is it exactly that makes me a troll?

Here's the deal. I recently did a fixed gear conversion. I'd wanted for a long time to take an old road bike and make a singlespeed out of it for my long, straight and flat commute. Then I learned that riding fixed gear had benefits that would make me stronger and faster on my road bike.

So I start coming here for advice. What I found was a culture that was rather surprising. I expected track/singlespeed/fixed riders to be more like roadies than roadies (I've been on the road bike forum for quite a while). Little did I realize that the culture of fixed gear would be the antithesis of road cycling.

Now I'm very, very proud of the conversion I did. It rides great and best of all, building and painting the bike was a class project for my first grade students. I had them take it apart, and spray paint it in their choice of colors it looks like sort of rainbow camoflage with an emphasis on pink (my class this year has a lot more girls than boys). Then they helped me put it back together from the bare frame up.

So when I start paying attention to fixed gear bikes around town I notice these cards in the spokes. First I thought it was a flyer someone put there. The I saw someone riding with it. Hmmmmm. A trend. Then two days in a row I see fixed gear riders wearing what appear to by cycling hats tilted to one side (as opposed to the brim bent back like helmetless road bikers often do). Hmmmmm. Another trend.

Now, forgive me if this is some sort of faux pas akin to wheelsucking, but I consider Bikeforums to be an oracle of information I can go to for all of my cycling needs. I'm pretty sure I repay the karma by answering as many questions as I ask anyhow. So in one day, I bring two things I'm curious about to this forum. One about spoke cards and one about helmets. And people get all bent out of shape. My intent was not derisive at all. I was genuinely curious about spoke cards and why what seems to be a very perilous form of cycling has such low use of helmets.

It's just like the whole "OCP" thing on the roadie forum. Go there and post the question "Why do you wear the full team kit of racing organizations of which you are so obviously not a member" and see what answers you get. In fact "OCP" and "Hipster" actually have a lot in common (in a Reagan/Clinton sort of way.)

hyperRevue

I do believe that you're legitimate and not trolling.
It's just that a good indicator of "trolling" is when a relative newbie (you're new to the bf/ss forum) posts multiple threads on topics that have a history of being inflammatory.
Spoke cards and helmets are two such topics on here, they very often tend to deteriorate into flame wars.
That's all, nothing personal.

Ready to Ruck

sweet; child labor! haha kidding.

I do have one in my spokes actually. It was for "the hill country ride for aids". Of course people notice spoke cards. So the intent was to get attention to donate for this cause. And also, taking advantage of spoke card's cool factor, the spoke card reads that you can get a card by donating. Ingenious.

killsurfcity

OP:
i said i won't use the t-word, b/c i don't think you are a troll, but you did seem like you might be trying to call people out, which is un-cool even if you're right. if i'm wrong i appologize, i am not trying to prejudge you in anyway. cool?

Jerseysbest

Any pictures of the bike painted by the youngin's?

Serendipper 

To hell with the bike, I wants to see me sum pictures of some cow-tippin!!


...Think I dun upped and found me a new hobby. Yee-haw!

rvabiker

A troll acusation that I wasn't a part of? Where was I?

hyperRevue

You're getting soft, RVA.
Get with the program.

Serendipper 

troll.

mplsminx

i'm headed to the roadie forum right now to do just that. seriously.

MrCjolsen

MrCjolsen

Placid Casual

You guys...this dude had a class full of first graders build and paint his bike for him. Instead of calling him names, you should be rounding up virgins and slaughtering livestock and offering them to him in sacrifice. He has outcooled you all.

-=(8)=-

The OP backed me up in a A & S thread about fixies as we both where
getting a brutal nerd-shank by the angry, militant Nepolean Dynamites
that inhabit that forum. And, the above stuff too.........