What's wrong with Malcolm Gladwell? I ask that earnestly, because I liked Tipping Point but know anything about him.

As best I know, Velocity doesn't make any carbon rims, and I don't think that they have any plans to. There are plenty of other makers of carbon rims, so why enter an already saturated and very small market?

nodding to imitation of christ's first season, designs based on human-spillage, demands for the heads of famous track racers and pricing schema cemented firmly in a disdain-based sliding scale will all make appearances in your local track boutiques.

put that in your chunnel and smoke it

Just throwing the idea in the air.

I didnt bother to read the thread.

Fixed gear t-shirt labels.
Already happening, but its gonna go BOOM in 08.
A lot more of "street wear shop" bike builds.
07 was pretty bad, 08 is going to be disgusting...

i predict in 2008 peabody pride will get more ass than all of us put together with his mad excel skillz.

pegs

dyno with the black mags (blackmags-blackmags)

kanye west shades

false. I predict more terrible threads and him buying another pista concept that was hit by a truck.

cazals, cazals
you people are so goddamned fashion illiterate it's unforgivable.

you are not fashionjesus. fashionjesus forgives.

buying AND riding, after he found out....*shakes head*

yeah. I told him the back story on it and he didn't care. then the fork snapped. hmmmmmmm.

i think the ratio to peabody-getting-ass to everyone-else-getting-ass is somewhere near 0:1

fork had to do with me hitting a curb, any cf fork woulda snapped. dunno why you're still beating the dead horse months afterwards.

ohyes, i remember the PF saga. some people are slaves to fashion. lol

not true. I had a carbon fork on my Pinarello when I was hit on it. it took a hit into a cab at about 15mph and it didn't break. also, im still talking about it because im a jerk.

philly needs the batty for most contempt within the ranks.

+1 about vintage European bikes, I was thinking about putting the Dérailleurs on my PX-10 the other day, All though a coaster brake nexus hub+mustache bars are dam temping as well, or maybe roller/drums brakes, and a dyno hub, a very utilitarian style bike, Sheldon maybe a dork, but you cant really argue with the logic behind his rides

And mark my words cheap Carbon Tubulars are gona be huge it begins wait for a cheap carbon version of that, And CF Everything, seatposts stems, all that, and Loads of CF on old European bikes,

+1

I predict an unexpected and inexplicable resurgence in flip-down fork standers... which will invariably end up clamped to straight-bladed carbon forks, causing a nauseating number of youtube videos of carbon spoked wheels and carbon forks simultaneously combusting. Similarly, I predict a resurgence of A'ME grips. And new "designer" number plates. Seriously.

Yeah. I got it from the library, and I read his stuff in The New Yorker (have fun with that, haters). He's a little too much of a blowhard for my taste, but he does sometimes tackle some interesting topics.

The dude gets paid in the neighborhood of $40k per speaking engagement according to this profile. That is just ****ing obscene.

...and then there's the hair.

wrong.


these

I lit Gladwell three times this year, dude's a pretty good speaker.

Oh jeez, I don't know the name brand of some ****ty rapper's sunglasses. F*ck, I need to get my sh*t together!

It kind of disturbs me that anyone pays enough attention to that ****** to know what type of eyewear he sports.