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Originally Posted by Ray R
(Post 16058004)
It's only "hep" if you declaim poetry, listen to Bird Parker and John Coltrane, and read Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg. Otherwise, it's just fashion.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Hairy Legs
(Post 16045161)
It's hip for those of us who do it. For others, it's dorky and weird.
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If you have to ask, well...
Originally Posted by alan s
(Post 16047915)
I just smirked, and rode on.
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Originally Posted by Spld cyclist
(Post 16056337)
The other evening I was riding past a little park where some kind of fair or festival was going on. It was getting dark and I had my helmet headlight on. I've always considered having a headlight on my helmet to be the very paramount of bike commuter dorkiness, but I'm old enough not to care anymore. Anyway, there was a group of teenage girls sitting at a picnic table near the street. They looked at me and one of them called out "nice headlight" with (I'm 99% sure) no trace of irony in her voice. I got to bask in the glow of teenage girl approval for a minute, which isn't something that has happened in many a year. :o Now I need to know, does this make me hip?
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I think I'm going to change the TREK logo on my bike to spell FRED instead. It won't take much. Cut the left tail off the T and put it in the middle, turn the angles on the K around. Or maybe TREK just spells FRED anyway.
I'm such a FRED that I couldn't do this on my Macbook. |
Originally Posted by zacster
(Post 16060181)
Uh, like no. I live with teenage twin girls and there isn't anything I or anybody my age can do to be hip. Maybe, just maybe, since you aren't "DAD", you'll get half a point.
Maybe I'll shoot for "Fred." I can likely manage that.... |
Originally Posted by Ray R
(Post 16058004)
It's only "hep" if you declaim poetry, listen to Bird Parker and John Coltrane, and read Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg. Otherwise, it's just fashion.
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Originally Posted by Barrettscv
(Post 16046279)
I'm older and a Manager. It's not considered hip with 99% of my peers, and I could care less.
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Given a choice between being "hip" or of being "Fredly", I am solidly in the Fredly camp.
I can't remember the last time that I really cared what others thought of me. Might be an age thing. |
Originally Posted by zacster
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I think I'm going to change the TREK logo on my bike to spell FRED instead. It won't take much. Cut the left tail off the T and put it in the middle, turn the angles on the K around. Or maybe TREK just spells FRED anyway.
I'm such a FRED that I couldn't do this on my Macbook. |
As to hipness, yes and no. Yes, a lot of hip people are doing it, but not everyone doing it is hip. It is also hip because the rate of increase in people doing it is extremely high. From every year to the next in the last five or so years, you see more. I think the rate of increase (the third derivative of this curve) may be higher now!
On the Hudson River Greenway, there are tons of very fit people riding very skillfully, but there are also wobbly people who clearly haven't ridden much in recent years until now. There are also some very flat and flabby people. They can't have been doing this for long, and it melts my heart to see them, faster than it's melting their fat. |
Originally Posted by Ray R
(Post 16058004)
It's only "hep" if you declaim poetry, listen to Bird Parker and John Coltrane, and read Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg. Otherwise, it's just fashion.
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