Fixie on TV :-)
03-03-15, 04:35 PM
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Fixie on TV :-)
The latest Chase credit card commercial "For the fun" features a Fixed gear bike at 15 seconds.
Chase Freedom TV Commercial, 'For the Fun' - iSpot.tv
https://ispot.tv/a/7aTG Ride Safe,
Joe
Chase Freedom TV Commercial, 'For the Fun' - iSpot.tv
https://ispot.tv/a/7aTG Ride Safe,
Joe
03-03-15, 07:07 PM
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Your cog is slipping.
Next people will be talking about them on the internet.
03-03-15, 07:23 PM
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~>~
I have a Capital One Fixed Gear bike and get free airline miles every time I do a trackstand, double if I scowl at pedestrians. 
03-04-15, 06:10 AM
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not gonna lie i kinda wanna get some craigslist pos spraybombed in 12 different neon colors and put stickers all over it that say FIXIE and ride around waving to everyone
03-04-15, 09:17 AM
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Your cog is slipping.
03-04-15, 10:01 AM
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I should, you are right. I should just be like you. I shouldn't be entitled to my own opinion. I should just post here and ask you if it is OK if I like something or not.
03-04-15, 07:09 PM
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Your cog is slipping.
You should also go **** yourself if you're going to carry on like a bratty child instead of understanding what I'm saying.
03-04-15, 07:49 PM
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I believe that the term has entered the language recently, along with a generalized infantile diminution of nouns.
A generalized etymology source on "Fixie" has:
"fix·ie
ˈfiksē/
noun
noun: fixie; plural noun: fixies
A single-gear bicycle that has no freewheel, so that its wheels cannot move unless power is applied to the pedals.
Origin
early 21st century: from fixed-wheel bicycle or fixed-gear bicycle ."
Perhaps we moved in different circles (pun unintended) but it's interesting how the language evolves, with some unfortunate turns of usage at times.
-Bandera
03-04-15, 07:52 PM
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Your cog is slipping.
03-04-15, 08:56 PM
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Having been involved with riding fixed gear bicycles on the road since the Johnson administration, and having spent a fair good bit of time at/on the track since the early '70's I never heard a fixed-gear bicycle referred to by my coaches or teammates as a "Fixie" for the last few decades. Perhaps I missed it.
I believe that the term has entered the language recently, along with a generalized infantile diminution of nouns.
A generalized etymology source on "Fixie" has:
"fix·ie
ˈfiksē/
noun
noun: fixie; plural noun: fixies
A single-gear bicycle that has no freewheel, so that its wheels cannot move unless power is applied to the pedals.
Origin
early 21st century: from fixed-wheel bicycle or fixed-gear bicycle ."
Perhaps we moved in different circles (pun unintended) but it's interesting how the language evolves, with some unfortunate turns of usage at times.
-Bandera
I believe that the term has entered the language recently, along with a generalized infantile diminution of nouns.
A generalized etymology source on "Fixie" has:
"fix·ie
ˈfiksē/
noun
noun: fixie; plural noun: fixies
A single-gear bicycle that has no freewheel, so that its wheels cannot move unless power is applied to the pedals.
Origin
early 21st century: from fixed-wheel bicycle or fixed-gear bicycle ."
Perhaps we moved in different circles (pun unintended) but it's interesting how the language evolves, with some unfortunate turns of usage at times.
-Bandera
Ya know, I have no idea where the word came from. I just remember hearing it sometime in the early 2000s, and it was always one of the fair weather, wanna be messenger fanboys. Basically, people I hated. So it's annoyed me to this day. I guess it's kinda dumb, but everyone feels that way about SOMETHING I'm sure. Maybe not. I don't know.
03-04-15, 09:16 PM
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It annoyed me the first time I heard it, and every single time since. I was told to get over it though, so maybe you should as well T13.
/sarcasm
/sarcasm