Wash Post Tech writer goofs on fixed gears
09-28-09, 08:33 AM
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Wash Post Tech writer goofs on fixed gears
Washington Post "technology" department finally gets the scoop on these fixed gear bicycles and blows the lid off it. Next week they are exposing how street lights know when to turn off and on. Some pretty heady stuff.
“14th street” is hardly steep and can be circumnavigated. The bitter Op-Ed tone of the article is remarkably intolerant and more of a penishead’s vitriol. The contemptuous characterization of “fixie” riders shuttling from their futons to computers is hardly an affront to anyone and a lot better for humanity than driving or taking the damned bus.
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Cool, but here comes the steep hill up 14th Street heading north past Florida Avenue. Now what?
Stand and pedal hard, dude. No granny gear for you. Or get off and push, a lame shame
Stand and pedal hard, dude. No granny gear for you. Or get off and push, a lame shame
https://www.davidjmontgomery.com/
Since then, fixies have been adopted by the boho aesthetes, the greens, the anti-corporate activists and, finally, the new urbanites with money.
A fixie map of Washington would center on a handful of neighborhoods. Your fixie is what gets you from your futon in Columbia Heights to your computer screen downtown, then on to peruse the produce and fiction in Logan and Dupont circles, finally delivering you to an outdoor table on U Street NW, a rope line on H Street NE or a bike polo match at Eastern Market. Fixies haven't made it in a big way to the suburbs, and may never, for strictly topographical reasons. They aren't good over long hilly distances.
A fixie map of Washington would center on a handful of neighborhoods. Your fixie is what gets you from your futon in Columbia Heights to your computer screen downtown, then on to peruse the produce and fiction in Logan and Dupont circles, finally delivering you to an outdoor table on U Street NW, a rope line on H Street NE or a bike polo match at Eastern Market. Fixies haven't made it in a big way to the suburbs, and may never, for strictly topographical reasons. They aren't good over long hilly distances.
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09-28-09, 08:43 AM
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your about 10 seconds too late on this one...
09-28-09, 01:26 PM
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" The bitter Op-Ed tone of the article is remarkably intolerant and more of a penishead’s vitriol."
The article generally says nice things about fixed gear bikes and has plenty of nice things to say about the people who ride them.
Some samples:
"a fixie manages the neat trick of simultaneously communicating taste and rebellion.
"So clean, so fluid. I just had to have one," he says. "I was like, whatever bike that is, I want to ride something like that."
>urban kids...revered the bikes' mechanical simplicity and sheer speed.<
>The euphoric riding experience is achieved via the discipline of the fixie's low technology.<
>A fixie is the essence of bicycleness reduced to a few lines and curves, like Picasso's sketch of a dove. The bodies of the riders accentuate this aesthetic.<
>He's riding his brakeless fixie...flowing with carefree grace through Columbia Heights.<
The article generally says nice things about fixed gear bikes and has plenty of nice things to say about the people who ride them.
Some samples:
"a fixie manages the neat trick of simultaneously communicating taste and rebellion.
"So clean, so fluid. I just had to have one," he says. "I was like, whatever bike that is, I want to ride something like that."
>urban kids...revered the bikes' mechanical simplicity and sheer speed.<
>The euphoric riding experience is achieved via the discipline of the fixie's low technology.<
>A fixie is the essence of bicycleness reduced to a few lines and curves, like Picasso's sketch of a dove. The bodies of the riders accentuate this aesthetic.<
>He's riding his brakeless fixie...flowing with carefree grace through Columbia Heights.<
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10-24-09, 01:43 PM
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I liked the article. Makes me look like less of a dick.
