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tricks on fixed gears is not only stupid (backwards circles and trackstand variations are cool though) but i think it will be nothing more than a short lived phase. a decade from now, bikers will look back and say "god, i can't believe people used to ride their nice track bikes into the ground with that dumb ****. what were they thinking?". once you get past the fancy skids and a few coordinated maneuvers, there just isn't enough variation to warrant the existence of an actual EXTREME FIXIE SCENE. sure, the few people who are amazing with this stuff (i'll give anyone credit for shear talent) will continue to do it, but as a whole, i have a feeling the MASH situation will lose steam fast and people will be left to ride track bikes for the one and only reason they should be ridden; to go FAST.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_uXPfSAVE you just can't do things on that level with a track bike. |
Originally Posted by NewYorkMantle
(Post 6024737)
tricks on fixed gears is not only stupid (backwards circles and trackstand variations are cool though) but i think it will be nothing more than a short lived phase. a decade from now, bikers will look back and say "god, i can't believe people used to ride their nice track bikes into the ground with that dumb ****. what were they thinking?". once you get past the fancy skids and a few coordinated maneuvers, there just isn't enough variation to warrant the existence of an actual EXTREME FIXIE SCENE. sure, the few people who are amazing with this stuff (i'll give anyone credit for shear talent) will continue to do it, but as a whole, i have a feeling the MASH situation will lose steam fast and people will be left to ride track bikes for the one and only reason they should be ridden; to go FAST.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_uXPfSAVE you just can't do things on that level with a track bike. |
Originally Posted by NewYorkMantle
(Post 6024737)
tricks on fixed gears is not only stupid (backwards circles and trackstand variations are cool though) but i think it will be nothing more than a short lived phase. a decade from now, bikers will look back and say "god, i can't believe people used to ride their nice track bikes into the ground with that dumb ****. what were they thinking?". once you get past the fancy skids and a few coordinated maneuvers, there just isn't enough variation to warrant the existence of an actual EXTREME FIXIE SCENE. sure, the few people who are amazing with this stuff (i'll give anyone credit for shear talent) will continue to do it, but as a whole, i have a feeling the MASH situation will lose steam fast and people will be left to ride track bikes for the one and only reason they should be ridden; to go FAST.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_uXPfSAVE you just can't do things on that level with a track bike. |
I feel ripped.... i did'nt get a flyer!
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Originally Posted by gz_
(Post 6024859)
Agreed. If there were only some way to build off this go-fast aesthetic of fixed gear bikes... like create some platonic ideal of 'the street' in the form of a mobius strip or banked oval. I bet you could really go fast on something like that with a fixed.
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Jesus, I am tired of seeing wheelies...
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boooooooooriiiiiing
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no way
check the way he waves his arm around i dare you to find style like that in da bmx crowd |
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Originally Posted by NewYorkMantle
(Post 6029760)
anticlimactic clip of the week?
Here's a climactic clip for ya: http://www.playvideos.com/comedy/277.asp |
Originally Posted by Wotan
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Originally Posted by NewYorkMantle
(Post 6024737)
[cut] Rant [/cut] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_uXPfSAVE you just can't do things on that level with a track bike. Just curious, have you seen Tom's section on "Bootleg Sessions"? |
Originally Posted by VT tallbike
(Post 6024090)
Two vids for today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPAmdmjEIGY & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSB4-hgBMXQ These might have been posted here before if not I'm sure they've most likely been up somewhere at some point. |
Originally Posted by NewYorkMantle
(Post 6024737)
tricks on fixed gears is not only stupid (backwards circles and trackstand variations are cool though) but i think it will be nothing more than a short lived phase. a decade from now, bikers will look back and say "god, i can't believe people used to ride their nice track bikes into the ground with that dumb ****. what were they thinking?". once you get past the fancy skids and a few coordinated maneuvers, there just isn't enough variation to warrant the existence of an actual EXTREME FIXIE SCENE. sure, the few people who are amazing with this stuff (i'll give anyone credit for shear talent) will continue to do it, but as a whole, i have a feeling the MASH situation will lose steam fast and people will be left to ride track bikes for the one and only reason they should be ridden; to go FAST.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_uXPfSAVE you just can't do things on that level with a track bike. |
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Originally Posted by Wotan
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Originally Posted by vocaltest
(Post 6084113)
was never into palatka.
and infest. |
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dude that band sucks
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Originally Posted by carbonjockey
(Post 6092061)
dude that band sucks
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