Silly way to frame this great article. I have no idea how a great builder who has been building for 20 years gets labeled a hipster. I'm just very happy to see the resurgence in small local builders building quality product for the price a retail trek. Only good things will come from this.

what if a hipster has tight jeans a vintage tshirt tattoos a record collection a fixed gear bike a wife a career a mortgage and two kids? does it get confusing then?

making fun of hipsters for no reason is so 2010

Would said hipster happen to have a comma or a shift key? ;)

Can we just bury the word hipster with Def Jam?

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Hipsters use iPhones...

Oh, wait... darn!

I'll join in. Hipsters are so 2010.

You guys are behind the curve...in Philly, Hipsters were so 2007.

For 2011 we'll not beat around the bush with silly euphemisms and just call them for what they are -Hot Water Bottles.

Useless "hipster" trivia time!

One of the original "pop culture" hipsters...before he played "Gilligan" ... was Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs on the Many Lives of Dobie Gillis.

Better picture at ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanbohemian/54072617/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/...09e0da22b5.jpg

My only complaint about hipsters is that they seem to have exited my market, and moved on to something else. I need them to buy some of the low end stuff that is still hanging around.

So if anyone has some spare hipsters in their marketplace, send them this way!!

Help Shaggy find his Fixie!

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/1...od92102812.gif

I'm all for 'hipsters' going to geared bikes. Have you seen the, "Show us your geared bikes" thread in SS/FG? It's pretty good. A lot of those guys have a color coordinating style sense that the people of C&V could appreciate.

I don't see any problem - After all - Here are the real Hipsters...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2k...tel_shortfilms

Yea, it helps drive sweet bikes like this down to $300 for us! :thumb:

http://www.nashbar.com/bikes/Product..._200274_200348

http://www.nashbar.com/images/nashba...N-BRN-SIDE.jpg

Back in the 80s, I wanted to be a beatnik, but I was a bit too late for that.

http://www.bobdenver.com/Maynard.jpg

Neal

I still LOL'd at 30 Rock's latest dig on hipsters : "Last year there was a cyclone in Brooklyn and it took out two vintage T-shirt shops and a banjo."

Or maybe you were ahead of your time.

I can't imagine buying or owning a bicycle made in the 21st century -how gauche!

Yea, I understand. But it does have a chro moly frame and fork! Maybe bike manufacturers are starting to mend their ways. ;)

I, frankly, don't think they exist-- whether or not THEY think they exist.

I think that's a pretty clear indication that the fad has run its course.

aside from the crankset I don't mind it. Looks like there's room for fenders with those 28's on there. I could see it making a nice IGH bike.

I don't see any fender/rack eyelets but its nothing some p-clamps can't handle.

Nice frames - Although it's hard to think of anyone's dream bike being a tig-welded frame.. just one man's opinion.