Prime

I remember reading about her tour back then... ****s was awesome...

hairnet

I like how Lance smokes them towards the end.

i don't mean anything negative by this

dayvan cowboy

I have never been a huge fan of MASH but that video makes me want to take my fixed gear and ride it down some of the hillier mountain roads here in SE Ohio. Haven't ridden my fixed gear other than commuting since i built my geared bike. That was the only time mash has ever made me want to ride.

carleton

Sweet! Just keep in mind that a wide angle lens, low gear, and high RPMs make EVERYONE look faster.

91MF

hold on, you still arent following. i never said there was anything wrong with spending money on nice things. im saying when people are like 'its inefficient for them to only have one gear - thats stupid' but then drop $$$ upgrading to dura-ace and tell they friends 'its lighter. you really reap the benefit of every gram shaved' over their poor diet and cigars or something ridiculous. follow?

also, a demographic im an outsider too? how so? i own 2 road bikes. i own a fixed gear. wait, are you one of these guys who puts the word 'culture' at the end of stuff so he can hate/love/whatever it?
please...

redfooj

which part of the video has them going up and down mont ventoux?

max power

$5 paypald to anyone who can tell me what cap and shoes Lance is wearing in that vid!!

the_don

WOW, remember, people don't do these kind of things because they are easy, they do them precisely for the reason that they are hard.

I remember watching a documentary on people doing ultra-marathons (I think that's the name). Running 100 miles through the desert! I thought wow, WTF, why would anyone want to do that? But people do. And then I remembered people tell me the same thing when I say I commute 20km to work. It doesn't seem like big deal for me, but they think that kind of distance is insane!

You can say this kind of thing for many situations. Power walkers... Why don't they run? they look so stupid waggling about like that. But they like it and achieve crazy goals. Hell you could say the same thing for people swimming butterfly, it's the most energy draining stroke there is, but people do it and become champions even though breast stroke is easier.

Have respect for other people's hard work and dedication. Even if you don't understand it.

mugatu

he's wearing a mellow jhonnys hat and nike sb dunks

Pat Eisenhauer

and sponsored by Cinelli

RLRider

So Lance is riding with flats in that vid?

GP

I liked the video. I love watching good athletes, no matter what they're wearing.

5stone

I ride a fixed gear, mostly for commuting now, but I have a nice road bike as well. Before I got the road bike, I rode a number of tours—usually about 75 miles—on the fixie (only modest IL/WI hills). Would get a few weird looks and interested questions from other riders but pretty much everyone was fine with it. The hills made me stronger and I've found that being forced to pedal constantly has helped my efficiency on the road bike. I left the front brake on for the hills as I don't want to die and have nothing to prove. Once I saved up for the road bike, the fixed gear was 'retired' to commuting though I still love riding it and ride it everyday. It's stiff, fast and the connection I feel to the road is incredible. I do sprints on it regularly as part of my training.

I just love bikes and bike riding, no matter the bike. All that said, the fixed gear (and other) riders who bike with their hands together touching right over the stem drive me batsh*t with their pretentiousness. Invariably they're not wearing helmets either (oooo.....messy hair!). To each his own, however. I'd rather they be on bikes than in cars.

mugatu

yes
if you're interested in shoes that look like that and are equipped for cleats, try and get your hands on some nike dunk gyrizos
linky

n8tron

5stone - +1 that is my story almost exactly.

My personal opinion is that there is a right tool for the job. I wouldn't drive a pickup truck in downtown for an office job commute, nor would I haul lumber in a prius off-road.

My general opinion is - why hate on people who are doing something they enjoy and not affecting you or anyone else in any way whatsoever? The reason why they do it is up to them and doesn't matter to me. Good for them for finding something that is challenging that they enjoy doing.

Voodoo76

Whats funny is acting like riding fixed fast on the road is cool or alternative or whatever the term is these days. Guess what?, we were doing all of that 20 years ago to get this, train to race our track bikes on a track. And we learned from dudes who were doing that for 20 years before us.

End of old guy rant.

superdex

so if I look at this video a third time, this is what I notice:

* why tear down/rebuild your headset when you travel?
* ride without regard to traffic laws --and this has nothing to do with fixed/nonfixed/hipster/roadie. I watch well-kitted, shaved-legged, multi-geared roadies break the same traffic laws all the time. My question is, why do it?
* No helmets without LA, then all of a sudden they're all wearing helmets when he's riding with 'em? Was he (or his peoples) the helmet police in order to participate?
* To sit in a room with seven TdF jerseys is humbling, I don't care who you are

mugatu

riding bikes is cool
those are the bikes they have
they're cool for riding those bikes
plenty of hipsters ride bikes with gears instead of track bikes
they're cool too
everyone is cool, even fred

logdrum

Knowing that I cannot ride as hard and as often this summer, I am riding the fixie more. I go slower on it and not so Red Zone as with the road bike, so my appetite is not as ravenous, I do not have to wear a kit and road shoes and worry about wheels and power tap stolen.

Last might, our chihuahua had bad allergies, so I went to Walgreens 12 m RT but with a nasty hill to climb. All was good.

max power

can't seem to find the hat on their website

and the logo doesn't extend to the end of the shoes to be dunks

91MF

this is it - pure and simple. mods end this thread. please. then we can go back to more important things in the SSFG forums like 'which color deep vees should i buy?' and in the road forum 'which color water bottle cages should i buy?'....

mugatu

the hat is from when jhonny's had just opened, the designs have changed, that was the first iteration
you're right about the logo though, I don't know, I'm not a sneakerhead, I just thought I recognized them

n8tron

this post makes my day

agreed!

enjoi07

^^^+1 although i talk a healthy dose of ****. all is loved in the end.

BroadSTPhilly

I passed a jackass on a fixed gear this morning weaving all over the path on Kelly drive while HE WAS TEXTING.