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Old 04-09-05 | 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by filtersweep
A poseur (and I'm sorry to even discuss the reality of the term) would be someone who spent a small fortune on the newest and best fixed bike and clothing/accessories, then maybe rode 3 miles/week on the walking trail around the local pond.
filtersweep's got it right. if "poseurs" exist in the fixie world, they're not the grad students and graphic artists who dress kind of like messengers as they commute to work from brooklyn.

moe, who runs keiren cycle cafe in berlin, put it perfectly. "everywhere you go in williamsburg, you see them. the hipster walking his pista next to his japanese girlfriend."
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