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"1. Most any track or road bike, remove the gears if there are any, remove the brakes if any, make the rear cog fixed by any means necessary. "Freewheels for are loosers!!"
2. Get a pair of pants, any pants, and cut them off at half calf. Now, roll them up to your knees! You're "in."
3. Buy a cycling cap (preferrably a black one) and wash it several hundred times. Put it on your head. Check!
4. Chucks are the footwear of choice if you aren't riding clipless pedals. Toe clips are SO retro, though and highly recommended to the "hard core."
5. Run, don't walk, to your local tattoo artist and run your credit card up to it's limit with "ink!" This one is very important if you want to be part of this unique revolution.
6. Listen to music that makes you feel you have to wear a ratty black t-shirt everywhere you go.
7. Get a messenger bag. This one is also very important, although actually BEING a messenger isn't.
8. Never, ever, under any circumstance, wear a helmet. Helmets are for people that like life and want to continue living it!! You are NOT one of these people, are you?
9. Stop eating meat!! Unless of course it's free. All principle and values are out the window if you don't have to pay for something.
10. Compromise your integrity in the name of "anarchy." It's all the rage.
11. Be straightedge but only if you aren't of age or know anyone that will buy you alcohol. Once you become of legal drinking age, become a raging alcoholic. Just another in a long line of fallen revolutionaries.
Well, that just about covers it. Once you check off this list, you, too can be yet ANOTHER kid on a track bike -- so unique, so edgy. "
aside from wearing a cycling cap and being an anarchist and having tattoos i'd think this was written specificly about me.
it is funny however. and i stopped caring a long time ago if my lifestyle was considered "poser" by people or not, i tend to only worry about things that actually matter at all now. it is always funny to see people trying to cling to subculture credibility like their lives depended on it though.