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Originally Posted by Rollfast
(Post 20697992)
My cats are all fixies.
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I ride a tarck bike, personally.
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When I worked as a car messenger in Manhattan in 1978, the bike messengers and the car messengers were in separate cliques. But one day when my car was in for service and I rolled up on a bike, the first bike messenger I saw grinned and said "Yo! Frejus fix!"
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Well, I call it a ''Pignon fixe'' because I'm a sophisticated french-canadian
But people here only say fixie or fixe because fixed gear sounds like **** with a french accent The more you know... |
Fixaaaaay |
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I'm in the fixaaaaay camp. |
I like to think of my Fuji as a 'Sw8 Fixxay', and my Little Wing as a 'Sikk Phiksie' as is befitting their relative 'street cred' :p
(actually, I usually just go with 'Fixed Gear' for either, or 'track bike', as they both are) |
I've been using "velodrome bike" more frequently with non bike people, as in, "you know how in a velodrome, the riders cannot coast on their bikes?". They just might know what a velodrome is, and may have seen the riders on the track on TV.
This, despite the sad fact that my fixed gear has brakes, and has never seen the inside of a velodrome. Sad. |
Originally Posted by Phil_gretz
(Post 20713980)
I've been using "velodrome bike" more frequently with non bike people, as in, "you know how in a velodrome, the riders cannot coast on their bikes?". They just might know what a velodrome is, and may have seen the riders on the track on TV.
This, despite the sad fact that my fixed gear has brakes, and has never seen the inside of a velodrome. Sad. |
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