Looks like there's a bike messenger movie coming out
Weren't bike messengers made obsolete by faxes, emails, pdfs? Anyway, my commute is nothing this exciting, but thought you'd enjoy it.

I saw a "fixed gear" bike for sale at Wal-Mart yesterday. Well, fixed/free with a flip-flop. That, combined with this movie, tells me that the fixed gear craze is over.

This.

Finally.

God, this will be awful. Remember when Fast and Furious first came out and everyone with a Honda put a spoiler, fart can muffler, and ebay chrome taillights on their car? Yeah- This will be like that. But instead of just looking and sounding obnoxious - newjack hipsters will be mashing through traffic without brakes and getting themselves killed.

"Can't stop- Don't want to either" - ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!

I'm surprised that it is as much as $350 when you can buy a 16sp Tour de France Yellow Jersey bike for $220.

But then we would have never had that awe inspiring line "I live my life one quarter mile at a time" ~Vin Diesel.

I still occasionally see bike messengers lined up waiting for packages to take on my commute in to work. Apparently not everything can be sent electronically, but I'd be surprised if there aren't a whole lot less of them than there were.

We still have them working around downtown Toronto. I have seen job postings for bike couriers in Toronto.

That movie looks terrible... I'm sure it'll flop.

We have them come in and out of our law firm all the time. Being in IT, that whole thing seems odd to me. I suspect they're original certified notarized signed copies or something. I've also seen them delivering CD/DVDs.

a back pack full of hard drives and a bike are probably a lot faster than most network connections for intra-city core transfers.

fify

1. lots of kids and hipsters see this movie and decide they need a fixie.
2. bike shops make a lot of money selling fixies for the next year, then get stuck with the extra stock when it dies down.
3. parents and pundits complain about wreckless youth bombing through traffic without brakes. a few kids get hurt or die.
4. fixie trend dies.

this happened once before. BMX died in the early 90s because of over exposure. remember this?

I still see plenty of BMX's around but it tends to be little kids riding their older brother's one size fits all hand me down and wanna be thugs. I want to like this movie, just because of the actor. I'm blanking out on his name but I liked him in 500 days of Summer. Also, although they seem impractical in some areas, I am fixie-curious...not in the sense that I need to color coordinate because I already do that, though not to the extreme some fixie riders do, but I also try not to hate on any bicyclists anymore...to each his own, you know? If it's working for someone, then hey. However, I must qualify this by saying that the bike must actually be used practically and not as a fashion accessory on the uni campus or the high school parking lot.

edit: I've been more coherent. I guess I'm tired. Try to make sense of it.

OMG, just the first 15 seconds of the preview look like ****. Nevermind, I take it back. Perhaps a prudent career move on the actor's part to take advantage of the fixie craze but this looks bad....

My bike repair knowledge is limited to fixing flats and minor tune ups, but I seem to recall that alot of these fixie frames have horizontal drops. and, can take IGHs. thus, we can take advantage of the craze by converting old discarded fixed bikes/frames to IGH equipped uber light commutebikes.

Oh and don't forget how the movie "Cool as Ice" pretty much ended white rappers as a thing and killed the career of a promising young rapper with laser lines in his eyebrows.

"This situation sucks! I don't want you anywhere near it!"

There are at least 5 different courier companies in the Seattle metro area. Courts still require paper documentation (wet signature), lots of places still cut paper checks for payments, prototype devices/equipment, large-format drawings (architectural, etc.), print materials for distribution, any non-information deliverable...

I rode back in the early 90s and I used to haul a lot of blueprints, photo proofs, physical checks, and electronics repair parts. One of the strangest was a sawzall (pickup at the tool shop, drop off at work site; apparently they broke the only one they had) the bulkiest was 10 blueprint tubes (4" x 60").

4.5 out of 5 stars!

Who knows, maybe he comes to his senses and renounces his old ways at the end. We'll see.

But how many hipsters will decide fixies are too mainstream now and look for alternative transportation?

Quicksilver was not even a very good movie.

The best bike messenger movie ever is '2 Seconds'. That was really good. I highly recommend it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/

TDF Yellow Jersey Wally-World bike -

Well...you might start out on a tri, but whether this bike will actually finish one or not is still a point of contention.

The trailer sort of reminds my of one of the "Die Hard" movies (thw one with Samuel L. Jackson)....

Heathen!
Quicksilver has Kevin Bacon, which immediately makes it better than any non-KB film.