Right? Maybe this is not esoteric enough. Maybe someone should also post the meaning to that word to save research time.

Compare hipsters riding trackies on the street to lemmings in the wild. A marketing version of culling the herd. Cashing in on subculture isn't new, do some real research and you could have quite a presentation. I can't wait for all the cheap track frames in a couple years *rubs hands together*...daddy's going to the track...

Get the pics from that movie "Blond Ambition" and you'll have your messenger culture corrupted pics.

Do a Google search for top tube protectors. Count the number of companies selling them.

Track the rise in prices for track frames, particularly Japanese ones and especially the NJS certified ones. Look at bike websites from years past; no track/singlespeed/street fixie bikes. Now look at their current websites; everybody is selling one. According to my LBS, Specialized is coming out with a whole lineup of bikes to serve the booming hipster crowd.


And then there's scraper bikes. Don't forget, they are singlespeed, too.

ridin' on my scraper bike, ridin' on my scraper bike.

haha, I nearly fell of my bike when you started singing that to those scraper bike kids.

I endorse this message.

however crotchety, bitter and hateful the mod is, he is correct. Humor about hipsters will be far more effective juxtaposed against guys on penny farthings, major taylor, eddy merckx, Grahm Obree etc.

You could also juxtapose Keirin Racers with M&Ms and Power Rangers.

I can't get that dang song out of my head.

Lemmings in the wild don't commit suicide, if that's what you were alluding to. Walt Disney started that "myth".

Take it to hipster forums and ask why they ride track bikes, instead of bike forums and ask why some of them are hipsters. I'm not trying to just be flipant with you. This topic is just getting tedious. And why would anyone use powerpoint? Ick

hateful?

haha - classic.

Nowadays I see the term hipster as a valid description of a something like a sub-culture, rather than a term with negative connotations. One year ago I'd see about two fixed-gear riders a month, sometimes both being the same rider. These days I see fifteen to twenty riders a month. Aslo see the bikes more and more locked up on the sidewalk, at the organic market etc. All but one or two riders will have that distinctive look:

- riding knickers and cap
- messenger bag
- cards in the back wheel
- frame 4-6cm too small (by roadbike standards) to accomodate...
- massive drop from seat to handlebars
- BIG gears
- track drops, , flip 'n chops, bullhorns, straight, or riser bars

Its cool, its a style and a statement...I guess. At least they're riding bikes. Anyway, I'm glad I set up my fixed as a road bike with F/R brakes, traditional drops, and OP rims.


P.S. [whispered] Psst, anyone want to buy an never-been-used Chrome bag?:lol: