mattface 

"...you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

veggiemafia

Thanks, man. I hadn't seen the video for that, but I've loved that song since some blogger or another posted it. (Good Weather for Airstrikes, maybe?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odfh1...elated&search=

That Radiohead thing is cool, too.

bonechilling

So bicycle companies are making bikes?

How insidious!

Pfutz

Fixed gears are to egos what laytex vaginas are to 40 year old overweight video game playing nerds.

schnee

"I'm going to make a big meaningful post identifying something I'm sure nobody else has thought of.

It will be filled with tepid resentment, dime-store anti-capitalism and weak classist bigotry.

I will end up with a wordy, muddled mess that really doesn't say anything."

pitboss

and then submit it for your dissertation on "Cultural Ownership and Economically Stressed Sub-Genres"

Sammyboy

Right about now, a nap is looking like a really sweet option.

geoGraphicFTD

I recently contemplated with a friend, what will be the next "underground" sport to be "co-opted?"
skateboarding, fixed gear bikes, what's next?
her answer: FREE RUNNING

granted, I dunno how this will work, given that there isn't really equipment for it that can be marketed, but I'm sure someone will come up with some special shoes and bring back the term X-TREME (spelled as such) from the 90s and soon enough everyone will be jumping across buildings and glorified fixie subculture will be forgotten and put back right where you want it.

roadgator

BINGO!

the OP needs to realize that there is nothing that "just you" are doing. or that you got first and there for "own" it. Oh, and everything really is, has, will be for sale for a long time, so get over that too.

if you reallied that much on your bike to feel unique, you got bigger problems than pre-made track bikes.

andypants

Whatev, I'm so over parkour.

jamey

up the fixies!!!

thatguy

worst.

thread.

ever.

shapelike

I read the original post and almost had to take a look at the date signature. It must be tough being an independent thinker when you're so ****ing stupid.

geoGraphicFTD

I didn't even know it was a sport. or well, I didn't know that the act of leaping over fences and tumbling between buildings had a specific name. then again, I also didn't know that riding a fixie made me an auto-hipster until after I got mine. guess I'm just fulfilling my position as a disgrace to pop culture.

mattface 

Some people observe emerging trends, others I suppose, observe declining ones...

veggiemafia

I'm personally just waiting for the scooter craze to come back...

X-TREME SEGWAYZ were also discussed amongst my friends and I yesterday.

mattface 

Man you guys are so behind the times. Barnstorming and wing walking are the next X-treme sports! The biplane companies are really gonna REAM you poor unsuspecting trend following sheep!

Momentum

This is where it's at - unless those goddam capitalists refuse to allow the workers to own the means of production. Then I'll have to right a book about it, identifying a new idea that I'm going to call "Communism".





EDIT: sorry about the massive image, but it's too funny not to leave there

Bikkhu

shooting yourself with a shotgun should be back in fashion shortly

onetwentyeight 

barnstorming sold out in the 80s

jaypee

pitboss

Breathing is obviously super popular in many bigger cities, and gaining popularity like crazy. One of the biggest reasons for our population's collective fascination with breathing is the romanticized association with what it sees as remaining alive. The manufacturing of lungs to facilitate the inhalation of the components which combine to make air represent a rejection of the trend to die prematurely for lack of breathing, and will push biodevelopmentalists further on the path of creating carbon breathing apparatus that will then be forced with blatant over-marketing and hype on teenaged asmatics who walk the sidewalks path on weekends. The "breather" image for most people, is the individual, exotic, stripped-down thoroughbred nose breather. The impossible conglomeration of years of evolution and adaptive radiation. Combine that with a few well-worn videos of people breathing via non-host "air induction" kits and you've created a monster. A marketer's wet dream. A largely fictional idea of a subculture ready-made for corporate co-opting. It happened to sleeping, and now it's happening to breathing. Pre-built alveoli? Oxygen tent campouts? All they need now is to come factory-direct with smoking scars and tar build up.

To be clear though, I have absolutely nothing against people who breathe unassisted--there's already way too much snobbishness in the air world to get caught up in that. Just as most people will never fully maximize their VO2 Max, like most people on iron lungs do not really have iron lungs. Hell, most people in a brass-helmet salvage suit will never truly salvage anything that is cool. My point is only that this gradual corporate takeover of our biological functions is happening right now, and it is somewhat sad to see what used to be a rejection of bland consumerist values subsumed by them. It seems to me to be against the spirit of what self-breathing used to be.

So your own lungs for all the other reasons you got it, but not because it's edgy and cool--make no mistake, lungs are on their way to being as mainstream as any other kind of vital organ. I would hope Wal-Mart never starts selling them, but they have gotten into self-cleaing diapers, so who knows.

Rattlebag

^^The guy on the scooter has a weird nosebleed going on

C Law

It's worse than you think.

They are selling them too. And people are buying and riding them.

mattface 

OW! It hurts! Laughing too hard! can't breath...