Fixies - where to draw the line?
10-06-09, 05:35 PM
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Gotta be good fer ya, it's got the word salad in it right?
Thank you. By chance, culinary background? Or just foodie like me?
Thank you. By chance, culinary background? Or just foodie like me?
10-06-09, 05:37 PM
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10-07-09, 03:31 AM
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10-07-09, 04:24 AM
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Though it's a shame that some bikes become fixies, from beautiful vintage rides to that hacked BMC up there.... I'm of the philosophy of "to each their own", even if it brings a tear to my eye here and there. If the LBSs around here can stay in business because old fat dentists by Madones or a young hipster with too much money wants to blow $1000 on his 1981 Schwinn fixie convert, so be it.
But yeah..... some of those conversions are just heart-breaking.
10-07-09, 04:37 AM
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as long as it gets ridden, and taken care of. I don't care.
Since I worked at a bike shop when I got my fixed gear. I figured I might as well have something nice. It was a steel tri bike conversion. The current fixed gear is a carbon tri bike conversion. It makes me happy, and that what matters in the end.
plus no one is going to ride a bike they don't like looking at.
Since I worked at a bike shop when I got my fixed gear. I figured I might as well have something nice. It was a steel tri bike conversion. The current fixed gear is a carbon tri bike conversion. It makes me happy, and that what matters in the end.
plus no one is going to ride a bike they don't like looking at.
10-07-09, 08:30 AM
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If it has track dropouts, it's not a road bike. Most of the time.
10-07-09, 10:43 AM
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10-07-09, 11:00 AM
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10-07-09, 11:18 AM
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10-07-09, 11:27 AM
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Just think of all those classic beautiful bikes that were brought to the dump after gathering dust in the shed or left outside and rusted to hell. Probably more than the number converted.
10-07-09, 11:32 AM
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tell me about it! I found one up in Ontario on the way to Nestleton that I bought off a guy from the side of the road from his junk pile (he had a home bike repair business) for $10 Canadian. Brought it back to Columbus, chopped & flipped the bars, removed the rust, painted it, did a "Sheldon thread-lock fixed gear conversion" with the stock wheels, put it on ebay with complete & truthful details of what I did to the bike (just not how much I paid for it originally) and it went for $200 to an OSU student.
10-07-09, 12:38 PM
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I post in SSFG from time to time, though after a few short months I'm about to give up on using the internet at all to discuss mine and other FG bikes--the trendiness (and ignorance) online is absurd. It's all a lot of cool kids and wannabe's who need to justify the cost of their 100% NJS track builds that they roll down city streets at 18MPH. So there is a lot of brand whoring and misinformation about performance.
10-07-09, 12:39 PM
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I post in SSFG from time to time, though after a few short months I'm about to give up on using the internet at all to discuss mine and other FG bikes--the trendiness (and ignorance) online is absurd. It's all a lot of cool kids and wannabe's that need to justify the cost of their 100% NJS track builds that they roll down city streets at 18MPH.
10-07-09, 12:47 PM
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10-07-09, 12:49 PM
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Just saying...
