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The Day the Fixie Died

Old 06-27-07, 07:08 PM
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The Day the Fixie Died

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This rocks so hard.

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That's a girl. Flashing her underwear. Not a guy. Flipping the bird.
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his dad is ****ing hot!
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The faded white borders on those pictures are so artistic.
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Seriously. All FGG postings should require at least one interpretive element. Love it.

When I post my new conversion, I'm going to shop in a ghost of abraham lincoln in his stove pipe hat riding my bike into heaven and looking down wistfully at ford's theater. june cleaver will be on his handlebars with a fresh pie in her hands.
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i'd ride that.
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that's a great bike--looks great fixed, would almost
rather see it geared.
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I'm posting up my new bike with Jesus AND Tupac airbrushed around it.
Take that Megatron!
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Originally Posted by the pope
Seriously. All FGG postings should require at least one interpretive element. Love it.

When I post my new conversion, I'm going to shop in a ghost of abraham lincoln in his stove pipe hat riding my bike into heaven and looking down wistfully at ford's theater. june cleaver will be on his handlebars with a fresh pie in her hands.
Please do this.
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Originally Posted by kaiju-velo
that's a great bike--looks great fixed, would almost
rather see it geared.
You can come over and look at mine. It's almost the same vintage.
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Originally Posted by the pope
Seriously. All FGG postings should require at least one interpretive element. Love it.

When I post my new conversion, I'm going to shop in a ghost of abraham lincoln in his stove pipe hat riding my bike into heaven and looking down wistfully at ford's theater. june cleaver will be on his handlebars with a fresh pie in her hands.
June Cleaver should be on a pennyfarthing going the other way about to throw a pie at Lincoln. Bonus points for John Wilkes Booth laughing manically on the back.
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Originally Posted by Burrito Eater
June Cleaver should be on a pennyfarthing going the other way about to throw a pie at Lincoln. Bonus points for John Wilkes Booth laughing manically on the back.





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That's awesome.
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Originally Posted by lyledriver
I'm posting up my new bike with Jesus AND Tupac airbrushed around it.
Take that Megatron!

heh, I am trying to get a buddy to do a painting of Tupac and Biggie holding hands doing doubles jumprope.

but this made me think that them riding a tandem together would be even funnier.
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Originally Posted by ianjk
heh, I am trying to get a buddy to do a painting of Tupac and Biggie holding hands doing doubles jumprope.

but this made me think that them riding a tandem together would be even funnier.
lolz
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That frame is entirely too small for her.
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I would like an airbrushed mural of Eazy E fornicating with some hoes on my bicycle.
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Originally Posted by blickblocks
That frame is entirely too small for her.
yeah i got something she can ride
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Originally Posted by operator
yeah i got something she can ride
The tower of power?
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way to kill the sexy vibe guy
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for some reason, that picture made me think of Kool Keith
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