otherwise skinny dudes with huge thighs (or legs in general) look totally creepy and gross.

Of course, I've got trouble throwing my bag over my shoulder...

+1

did i say anything about stash pockets? do i give a **** about stash pockets? no. as i said above, which you chose to ignore, i care about having fun on my bike and enjoying my time riding, whatever form that might take. i'm sorry if it doesn't meet some poeple's jockish "bigger, faster, longer" standards for what constitutes "real fixed gear riding" but i've never been very good at meeting expectations.

i don't think a single person on here takes their bikes outside, practices skids and backwards circles, then walks it back inside and hangs it up. it's a different element of riding, and tricks and straight forward riding aren't mutually exclusive. they are complementary.

as for goofy posts on the forum, people aren't able to ride 24-7, and need a way to pass the time at work, school, during illness or bad weather... so yeah, the forum may talk about some pointless goofy stuff sometimes. does this mean we care less about riding? no. it means it gets boring simply talking about how long and fast you rode.

I'm without a doubt, "jockish".

I can feel your pain.

agreed, but I'd rather have the bread without the butter instead of the butter without the bread.

Perhaps I've gleaned the last little bit of knowledge from this forum and should just go to pasture in the Familiy Rec forum. I have taken your stance in the past. Things are different here now. I'm just tired of hearing the same old juvenile drink and pie and bag and trick posts. I probably never should have said anything and just simply stopped reading. For what it's worth, you seem to have gotten quite defensive. Don't take it personally man, I wasn't aiming anything at you. With the exception of this post maybe.

Edit: Oh and maybe the last post. Sorry.

I love riding and I love spending hours practicing tricks. It isn't like all that time spent learning better control of the bike won't come in handy at some point.

BTW I am not arguing.

MKRG - I'm not taking it personally, but I was annoyed with how you ignored the core of my post and chose to respond in a manner totally irrelevant to what i was saying and mention stash pockets.

Additionally, your original post, and the one to which i was responding, wasn't about being annoyed over the focus on drinking, pie, and bags (which may or may not have less to do with actual riding) but was about being annoyed with people being interested in doing tricks which is a form of riding and discussing tricks. my point is simply that riding is supposed to be fun, and there are different ways of having fun on a bike that are complimentary and we don't have to choose between one or the other.

Let's all have a big hippie-hug and forget this ever happened!

If your on a saddle its fine by me. Tricks are fun and intimidating...

I like to think of spanish conquistadors...stay with me MKRG...

Conquistadors were quite adept in the saddle(ohhh yeah). They could ride faster and harder than any at their peak. They also spent absormant amount of time practicing show tricks and manuevers. They felt it made them more agile in battle and when synchronized before battle, could be used as intimidation.

So all of us out there practicing tricks are really practicing for the up and coming battle between cyclists and pedestrians. We will rule their ass' worse than the spanish on the inca... **** yeah...

OP: Using a skateboard as a means of getting to places??? That's so much more silly than riding a bicycle backwards...

If you make a thread complaining about meta-threads, does that make it a meta-meta-thread? and is that better or worse than the meta-threads? explain pls

Not really. It was a great way to get around. It beats walking. Is walking a silly way of getting places?

when i lived in eugene, or i got most places i needed to go on my board. worked out nicely

**** yes it is .... buy a ****ing bike otherwise i will spear you in the chest plate

conquistadors were also awesome at genocide!

just like fixie riders

I always like to say "skateboarding is not a sport," although, I'm not sure how I feel about the logic of that saying.

at least he had the decency to tweak out that wheelie...

why does everything come down to impressing ladies? i mean, i'm really into riding my bike, but its not my ammunition in getting laid.

Guys guys guys, tricks are what you do at parties. Nothing says sexy like an indoor no-handed trackstand while chuggin' a beer.

My favorite part of those trick threads is hearing all the funny names people call their tricks. I'm calling the one described above "the mating panda".

wait wait wait, hold up a damn second .... Does falling down at a stoplight while doing a tranckstand drunk in front of a cop car count as doing a trick? Because I'm getting pretty good at that one.

Where else can I go to read live posts from Sheldon Brown, "shants", and pistaboy?

What forum informs me on technique, equipment, and wheat beers?

Look at the amount of views in Bikeforums at any time, SS/FG is second only to Road Cycling in it's popularity. Think all of those people are solely intrigued by your chainline, or your stamina? Think again. Hell, we've even seen converse traffic from other boards on this forum. I bet they heard fun was to be had here.

They heard right.

The skater analogy is apt. I was there. Sure, you had your Lance Mountains (Lance Armstrong?) but, you also had your 'Animal Chins' (pistaboy?). You had your "what trucks are best, Tracker or Indy? discussions then, but you also had your Vision Street Wear vs. keepin' it real/t-shirt&jeans debate, also.

Man, life is a lifestyle. If you find this forum totally meaningless then, y'know, get a life.

skateboarders owning it again.

it doesn't. i guess for you it comes down to how you interpret sarcasm.

i don't think any of my non-bike friends (male or female) are ever really impressed with any tricks i pull, but then that may be because i pull **** tricks....

Totally.

*****es ain't nothin but hoes and tricks.


@salmon: i wasn't being sarcastic. lately threads have been talking about this and that in regards to the ladies.