trend taking it's toll?
04-05-06 | 08:46 AM
#103
Originally Posted by juvi-kyle
I just wanted to tell you all to PISS OFF...while you guys are talkin about this garbage, I am drinking wine and dancing to New Order. Some of us still can have fun, dont be sucked in to the vortex of Bike Forums lameness. Have fun, ride track bikes with and without brakes. Dont let anyone else sway your ideas about yourself and while your at it love yourself just a little bit more everyday. We dont have time for all this ****, if you see a bike that is not being ridden, buy it, ride it, and get laid because of it. You guys remember Andrew W.K. first album, that **** was all about havin fun, lets live by that **** and forget all of our worries, especially the ones about others and the way they live their lives. Party till you puke...
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04-05-06 | 08:53 AM
#104
hang up your boots
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,574
Likes: 0
From: San Francisco
Bikes: 84 Pinarello, Trek Liquid 30, Torker CX 24, Gromada Track
Originally Posted by juvi-kyle
....Have fun, ride track bikes with and without brakes. ....
04-05-06 | 02:10 PM
#107
Guest
Posts: n/a
Originally Posted by dolface
yeah, it's jonb's, and he still rides plenty
04-05-06 | 02:43 PM
#108
Making Records
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 224
Likes: 0
From: San Francisco
Bikes: Tarmac
Originally Posted by Ken Cox
The idea of a fixed gear bike sort of came to me out of nowhere.
I didn't know about any trends, and I had never seen a person riding a fixed gear bike.
I think I came across the first mention of a fixed gear bike on Sheldon Brown's site.
It made sense.
I became obsessed with the idea.
I eventually stumbled on to this forum and started asking questions.
I settled on a Bianchi Pista because I intuitively liked the geometry, it looked strong enough for someone my size, and because I could get one without waiting.
The price made it attractive, too.
My son said I could upgrade as parts wore out, and otherwise get a taste of fixed gear riding without investing too much money.
I remember the first time I rode my Pista.
The phrase "religious experience" probably overstates the experience, but not by much.
Suddenly, I understood.
I've ridden fixed gear for two seasons, now.
I ride fixed during the good weather and I ride a geared "ice bike" with studded Nokian tires for a good part of the winter.
I have upgraded everything except the frame itself (nothing remains of the original bike except the frame).
I like the frame.
I love the handling.
The chrome and Bianchi decals camouflage the rest of the bike, which now represents about a $2000 investment.
This bicycle flies.
I mean, it really flies.
I look forward to going to work, because I get to fly my bike.
I look forward to going home, because I get to fly my bike.
I look forward to going anywhere, because I get to...well, you know.
Did I mention that this bike flies?
It saddens me to think of someone selling his fixed gear bike.
Did he ever ride it?
I didn't know about any trends, and I had never seen a person riding a fixed gear bike.
I think I came across the first mention of a fixed gear bike on Sheldon Brown's site.
It made sense.
I became obsessed with the idea.
I eventually stumbled on to this forum and started asking questions.
I settled on a Bianchi Pista because I intuitively liked the geometry, it looked strong enough for someone my size, and because I could get one without waiting.
The price made it attractive, too.
My son said I could upgrade as parts wore out, and otherwise get a taste of fixed gear riding without investing too much money.
I remember the first time I rode my Pista.
The phrase "religious experience" probably overstates the experience, but not by much.
Suddenly, I understood.
I've ridden fixed gear for two seasons, now.
I ride fixed during the good weather and I ride a geared "ice bike" with studded Nokian tires for a good part of the winter.
I have upgraded everything except the frame itself (nothing remains of the original bike except the frame).
I like the frame.
I love the handling.
The chrome and Bianchi decals camouflage the rest of the bike, which now represents about a $2000 investment.
This bicycle flies.
I mean, it really flies.
I look forward to going to work, because I get to fly my bike.
I look forward to going home, because I get to fly my bike.
I look forward to going anywhere, because I get to...well, you know.
Did I mention that this bike flies?
It saddens me to think of someone selling his fixed gear bike.
Did he ever ride it?
04-05-06 | 04:07 PM
#110
dances with bicycle
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 1,683
Likes: 0
From: SF
Originally Posted by na975
it's not jonb's bike! i know the guy that ownes it, its freshly built and in fact has only been riden in the hood breifly just to make sure all was silky smooth. also he is selling that red soma on creiglist too.
04-06-06 | 12:50 AM
#111
sometimes i go fast
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 284
Likes: 0
From: twoonefive
Bikes: 2.
Originally Posted by HipsterX
Why is everyone always coming down on me! It is so hard being a hipster. I just got this frosted fauxhawk and now I have to grow my hair out to into a mullet. It is so hard keeping up with the trends. I try to read vice magazine but one months do's are the next months don'ts. And now my parents think I am gay and won't pay for my Williamsburg apartment. I mean I gots to sell my keirin bike that I never really ride anyway.
