sweet i need to get in on this...

****

looks like I was shown up by a track bike. luckily its happened before, and will most likely happen again, so I know how to deal (furious rage). **** track bikes and their "too school for school attitude", i'm getting a huffy.

close, but the "j" is silent.

thats better, check the sig. track bikes are the worst.

Lets Build this bike...

He is made of:
Suzue Jr. Hubs (maybe even Quandos)

Um, when you get your Huffy, can I have your track bike?

I can't subject anyone to that type of torture. I'm gonna weld it to something public as an artistic statement. Think of Revs, but much more angst. I'm gonna be the next banksy.

Probably a conversion from a once-nice road frame that had all his braze-ons ground off. I'd be bitter too.

c'mon now.. no one does angst like revs, he's un-toppable in that area.

wtf....

I'm going mountain biking.

"proseur"

excellent.

He kinda looks like a pennyfarthing in the picture.

It's funny because it's true. Or is it true because it's funny? True because it's funny.

No doubt. I was noticing the fashionably unkempt of our Midtown are now polluting the air with ancient two-stroke Puch mopeds. I'm guessing they dumped the fixies because the exercise was making their legs too muscular for their style of pants.

too bad you live in SF....

Yeah, sucks to be you.

Totally sucks! West Oakland is so much nicer!

Despite all the hipster bashing there are whole bunch of people that can ride really really well in SF. The concentration and level of skill and style are probably among the highest in the world. It is wonderful to be here - gun or no gun!

ah man. people ARE lame. maybe it cos i know enough people that fall into the h**ster catergory but am i the ONLY PERSON that thinks its cool that MORE people are riding bikes and NOT driving? especially in san francisco...especially! uuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggghhhhhhhh. damnitt.

That was phunnie. I must be in the wrong towns, but I've never heard an actual messenger, upon seeing someone on any kind of bike, refer to them as posing, faking, posengering or the like. If they aren't riding confidently...they may get a chuckle or a wry smile, but most don't care, long as the person is on a bike. I don't look like a hipster when I'm working, was working, whatever, so maybe I dunno these dudes. I usually wore straight lycra in heat, layering up thin as the temp drops.

Then again I probably hang out with old couriers, who truly do not care one iota what you think...they didn't even see you, if they did it was just your bike they saw.

yeah, i know. i've been visiting the bay area on a pretty much annual basis for the last 25 years or so. my comment only related to the whole gun thing.



also, there seems to be an awful lot of defensiveness in this thread. it's cute.

Yeah, its no Bayveiw, but I can buy all of the handguns that I want, though.

the two go toghether - the definsiveness comes from insecurity which comes from not having guns and not having guns leads to insecurity, defensiveness, and ultimately to track bikes on city streets. So maybe if we all had guns there would be not track bike problem.

That's so cool!