here's my issue with the bikes, it's that people aren't buying them so much to ride, but instead to be a part of the hip new thing (ok not new, but you get it).

I look at most things from my perspective, as that's pretty much the only one I know to be true. My first fixed-gear was a conversion, that I built myself, and I ride the hell out of it. Do I ride it to get noticed by some hot fancy lady walking down the street? NO! ok, well yeah... hell, I'd be hoping to get seen just walking down the street, but my insecurity's are not what's up for debate right now....

any way, back to what I was saying, I ride my bike because I love to ride, and I found fixed gear to be my prefered style of bike. Not because it's hip or cool, but because I love the simplicity and the challenge. So when I see someone riding a fixed gear to be hip, screw them. And most people who are doing this are riding chrome bianchi pistas...

sorry this is all a bit jumbled and nonsensical, I'm not currently sober...

drink more! :)

bull****. you should be ashamed of yourself.

You don't like the bike because you don't like the people on the bike. I'll assume you've never really got to know any of these people, nor have you ridden the bike. Drunken Bro, you're wasting your brain cells.

bianchi rules

haters: 0

lovers: 1

I ride a 2005 chrome Pista, I got this bike for $300 bucks. It replaced my Specialized HardRock. I use it to commute to and from work and run errands. I also like to do laps in Central Park or ride up to Nyack when I get the itch. It all goes back to what you do with your bike. Look at all the fat roadies riding on $3000.00 full carbon rigs who can't climb a hill to save their lives. If everyone just rode there bikes and quit with making it some sort of scene, things would be a lot cooler, since when does riding a bike make you tough or elite. Maybe I'm just cranky, it was long day.

bull ****? Yeah, good point, can you point out anything in specific as to why I should be ashamed?

you're right I don't know anyone who rides one, you got me, I guess that girl I knew who bought one just to be a part of the hip dc barista scene was a figment of my imagination. Seriously you don't know me, so how can you say what I know?

The drummer in my band rides one as well, with him he was 16, really liked fixed gear, as it was within his means, he got a chrome pista, and he rides the hell out of, and not just to bars...

and yes bianchi's are pretty rad, but only riding one to be cool is not. as someone's signature used to say "fixed gears are the new white belts" or something along those lines.

It's kind of like diesel jeans, the may be nice pants, but f the hipster socialites that wear them for status. hipsters are the new yuppies.

The anger directed at those who disagree with you is consistent with what you reveal in the original post.

i've never met or seen somebody who rides a bianchi pista, or fixed gear at all, just to be cool or hip. i think the pista-riding hipster is a myth. a myth, i say, a myth.

right.... you don't like my opinion so obviously I'm angry. I'm just lashing out at the world. It's my opinion, you can accept it or not, I respected everyone else opinion, and called out those who I beleive to be attacking me personaly.

I didn't like it when everyone and their mother got into skateboarding, it made previously affordable parts crazy expensive, and affordable parts junk. Companies like IRO make affordable quality products, well not make but assemble with quality parts. where as most of the "affordable" bikes coming out use low end parts that end up wearing out super fast, and costing the owner more than they were initialy intending to pay.

The people who ride the bike and do so just to ride, right on, those who ride it to be cool, lame. No the bike itself is not lame, but it definately has become the flag for hipster bike crew.

And a pista is still more fun to ride them my slack ass angled conversion.

I'm sure that recumbants are fun to ride too.......................

Ah, but the big question is, is that are you a hipster for bagging-out on the Bianchi coz it's not an NJS Nasagawa....or are you a hipster for buying one in the first place?

*strokes chin*

I ride a schwinn traveler conversion, with IRO wheels. the nicest part is my cinelli stem bar combination...

I'm not rich enough to be a hipster. call it class envy if you want. I call it growing up on a farm.

what year were they gray/grey? i just saw one today in a looooong time and was reminded at how FREAKING AWESOME those are. now if i can get the answer i need i will promptly begin rooting around to pick up a frame set for 3 dollars and a small fry.

2003

I'm pretty sure your Pista was made by aliens. Enjoy the ride!

So answer me this -- why does it matter to you if people bought one just to be hip? Why do you care that some chick bought a Pista to be part of the barista scene? Isn't that one less car being driven as a part of the barista scene? Isn't it good that Bianchi is selling bikes?

Does their purchase of a Pista -- or their reason for buying one -- have ANYTHING to do with how much you like riding or your reasons?

I'm with you, man.
I couldn't give less of a **** why people buy the bikes they buy.
Or anything else for that matter.

no, but hipsters riding around, not knowing how to properly stop their bikes, running into things, messing up their bikes, and... their... pretty... faces. . . . . . . ok now I'm for them.

seriously, I'd rather see someone riding safely on a recumbant than out of control on a fixed gear.

Skilled vs. unskilled is a different story, I feel.
If someone loves cycling and the history and the culture and has been riding since he/she could walk and what not and rides a fixed gear carelessly and endangers him/herself among others than I have a problem with that person.

Yes! and only buying the bike to be cool, and not worrying about how to properly control it = LAME. if you ride it and yell, "NO BRAKES!" that's some straight nonsense.

who are these hipster people? are they cool? i would like to meet them? do they sokme the dnak?




























ah. this s**t is lame. soon as i get a life im leaving this place. msg boards are good for nothing but WASTING TIME.

I meant to say, steep angles are fun to ride every once in a while.

new rule for myself, no more than one post for every mile I ride that day.

Ah, you didn't say that earlier.

So what if someone buys a Pista to be cool AND knows how to properly control it?

Yes.
And in the same vein, if that person who bought it "just to be cool" knows how to ride it properly and what not, then I really don't care about anything else.
Do what you wanna do but don't endanger other people.

I still think that the image of being cool through consumerism is completely whack. but if someone buys one to be cool, then falls in love with bikes, begins to rides bikes that are comfortable, as opposed to cool, and does it because they love it, then no problems on my end.

Hipsters are a myth, like the sasquatch or yetti!



Saaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssquatch!!!!!

We know your legend is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!

Just ride and get over yourself...
 

I ride over 8000 mi a year. I LOVE riding. I own 5 bikes and each of them are special to ride. I NEVER look at other riders and think anything other than... "cool... someone else likes to ride", and I damn sure don't give a sh*t what ANYONE else thinks when they see me riding. I bought my Pista from my LBS because it's the only fixed gear they currently were selling and I don't shop in any other shop. My LBS is like family to me and they keep all my bikes running smooth and quiet. I wanted a fix gear to vary my workouts and the hills in Seattle have been quite a challenge but a blast just the same.

I thought about building my own... and then thought... naaah. I like to ride and I don't trust myself to build something that I won't break or won't kill me. Guys that build their own are great.... but I decided to buy it from the guys that I trust and respect.

I agree with QueerPunk... "Pista buying hipsters".... myth, pure myth...

Now quit worrying about "WHY" people ride and just be glad more people ARE riding... JUST RIDE! :fight: