musta been hard being the 2% eh?





hahahahaha jk



i want a sticker that says "I don't brake for hipsters"

I made a post about how hot this girl was in the general discussion forum.

I had these two 50 year old sexist fookerss call her a "trashy" "sloot".

Great huh?

you sold your bike so you wouldn't look like other people?

wow, that's ****ing sad my man.

You lose, did you run out and buy a new "look" for yourself? Glad to see your enjoyment of your fixed was all centered around what the image was like. Better you don't have one then.

Stereotypical Yuppie has:
- No facial hair (typically because their girlfriends, or lack thereof, dislike facial hair and decisions about facial hair are made on how much easy drunk vagina you can score)
- College logo, baseball logo or clothing store logo hat, bill pre-folded with ratty used worn edges from manufacturer. 70% worn backwards. Remaining 30% worn forward but so far back the bill does absolutely nothing for shading eyes.
- Boot cut jeans or cargo shorts (typically worn with flip-flops or some sort of casual shoe)
- Woven Hemp choker style necklace, sometimes with shells or wooden beads. Casual events only.
- Absolutely no opinions about society other than those opinions of their peers.
- Same ironic t-shirt but in 1 size larger OR same brand shirt as said logo hat above. If collar shirt, collar popped only for evening or public events. Welcome back to 1986.
- One or two horrible tattoos. (tribal sun, tribal band, lower back tribal, notice pattern here...)
- No turntable because "records are gay... pssh..."
- Absolutely no interest in any bands other than those that their friends already have an interest in. Why take a chance on good new music when there is all that kickass stuff on the radio?
- No bicycle at all. "WTF do I need a bike for when I got this badass Jeep!?"
- Horrible taste in beer.
- Synchronized "WOOOOOO!"-ing when doing shots.

Well you have different kinds of hipsters/scenesters, and this is what I see out there:

1. Bike punks. Bike punks go to collectives and throw together free bikes, bmx's or modded bikes that are really, really tall that you see around. Some of them are rich kids with sweet bikes, but they might not admit it. They mostly bike around town to parties/bars or school. Some overlap with college kids. A lot of their biking comes from political/green motivations and saving money. Or it's just what all the other bike punks are doing. Might have a collective or co-op in town to give out free bikes.

Generally very snobby and inclusive. Dirty. They listen to punk rawk/metal, have patches, all black clothing, dreads/mohawks/whatever.
Wear chrome bags and may be in a band.

Love to run through red lights and ninja.

2. Hip bikers/hipsters. This is what I think of as true hipsters on bikes. They dress in "urban" (god I hate that word) hip-hop fashions, listen to electro music/hip hop ect., and buy limited edition sneakers. The look of the bike is important and it relates to their social status. What you see posted around here the most are these kinds of cyclists. Very connect to BMX/skater culture. Trick bikes with colorful wheels. You get some overlap here with jock types too who look fairly normal but are pretty in the know. Generally pretty snobby about their ride (and yours). and inclusive. It's like having Air Jordans in high school in the 80s.

If your **** ain't tricked out they won't be friends with you.

You see a lot of Rap and Hip Hop culture mixing into bike trends in the last couple of years. Electro touch and french blog house have had a huge connection to these kids as well. B-more styles of music also important.

Generally swerve in traffic and cut off motorists.

3. Townies. These are more of your indie rock/older town staple kind of people. They've been around in the scene for years and might own a gentrified house and have a decent job. Overlap with bike punks but probably have nicer bikes and are more inclined to know a lot about fixing up their bikes. Not as fashion connected as hip bikers with their own bikes, but fashionable within their own clique. You see a lot of beach cruisers, and vintage bikes here. Always at the bar and probably drunk.

Lots of girls that you see on bikes fall in this category. Townies don't spend nearly as much money on bikes (vintage they find on craigslist or something) and wear their street clothing. Band t-shirts, thrift shop gear, jeans but not too tight.

They ride in what they have on and take their time. Probably the least snobbish of the three. Take back roads and will probably break traffic laws.

4. Superheros and the middle aged. This is basically a lump group of well to do older folks. The long distance bikers with the tight spandex, the guys with 5 grand bikes who ride a few miles in the burbs. The hippie guys who own the local bike shop. They have lots of cash and are married. Like to talk ****e about ninja bikers, and fixed gear craziness. They think they know it all because they are old and wear diapers. Pretty nice people on the whole except for the extreme roadies. Obviously you could break this group down a lot but they aren't really scenesters so why bother.

They follow traffic laws.

5. Urban working class. These are lower class or working class people who just use bikes in the city to get around. Going to the local store, going to work, going downtown to harass people, young kids on cheap bikes. Lots of racial division here as you don't see a lot of white people in this group. I'd say they don't give a **** about bike culture and they are usually on the sidewalk. Normal dress. I mention them because I see them around the city. You'll see some overlap here with the hip- bike kids, maybe younger kids in the lower middle class.

They follow traffic laws in-so much as they don't want to get hit. Always on the sidewalk.

6. College kids. They bike around campus. Usually very functional bikes. Pretty typical college dress. Varied levels of scene/hipsterness or just normal frat types. They could have really expensive bikes from mommy and daddy, or cheap **** bikes from wall mart. No real reason to stereotype them other than what they use their bike for. Lots of overlap with townies.

Usually on campus or a bike lane, don't have to worry about traffic laws that much.

No problem with that my brother.

I base the red light thing on the kids i know.

keep rocking.

This pretty much describes me and everyone I hang out with.

Fixie Hipsters (in the negative sense)- those who ride fixies and stereotype people.

I am friends with pretty much every stereotype listed above. I know people that cross the boundaries of each, and I know that I cant be stereotyped by just one of the aforementioned groups. Who cares what people do or what they ride. The more people that buy track bikes and parts the lower the prices become. Be happy.

I can't find a category I fit in : ( . . . Oh well, I go to college, so I'll sit there. but i don't ride on campus

I guess Im an urban working class hipster

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i fall into the hipster biker stereotype, except that i'm not snobby about what people ride (except the p.o.s. wallyworld mountain bikes the food delivery guys creak around on). based on the most commonly expressed opinions around here, my own bikes are wayyy uncool, man. also, while i often dress like a hipster off my bike, i take comfort while riding pretty seriously and am not afraid to throw on some lycra and fancy bike shorts for rides over 10 miles, even if it makes me look like a roadie dork.

It's funny because this dude looks like the typical hipster.

Most of my friends are hipsters. I am not one. I do spend $1000's on clothes to look like a shop at a thrift store. I shop at TJ Max to look like I shop at decent stores for $100 (total).

My friends are cool. Nice people, fun convo's, but ya, hipsters are fairly silly. Most of them are English (or some other usless degree) Majors that can't figure out wtf to do with their degree, so they work for non-profits.

Also, most hipsters do not have tattoos... Bobbed hair, tight clothes, and beat-up-looking white sneakers is all they need. Tattoos hurt.

I wasn't on the swim team, but my boyfriend was....and he never got any **** for it. *shrugs*

I've been skateboarding for 20 years, and riding bikes around Boston for just as long. If anything, I think the bike punk group falls more with skater culture than "hip bikers."

I will also draw a little more distinction within the bike punk group. You seem to classify all of them more towards the anarchist / socialist / green perspective. While that is certainly true for a number of them, there is huge overlap between the bike punk crowd, and the urban working class. That is to say there are plenty of punks who ride, but aren't vegan, part of any "collectives," etc.

Other than that, I think your groupings are spot on.

EDIT: Here is me looking as hip / unhip as the case may be. I have no idea what group I fall into, and I don't give a rats ass.

I think those groupings are terrible. I wear lycra, ride long distances, have worked at a co-op, go to college, and ride in the city?

It's a post-modern world.

Just because you do all those things doesn't make you a hipster... Doesn't mean you aren't one either...

It's really more of a bohemian-80's thing...

i say fit the townie. haven't spent much on my bike, probably $100+$70(hubs)+$50(rims) and whatever it'll cost for spokes and to get them built. it's also lugged steel. not a drinker though...

i know how to do 70% mechanical things. even those pesky gears and derailers

i was in portland last week, and while i didnt see many fix riders, the young crowd that walks around and smokes cig's sure is hip.

honestly, for a forum about bicycles, you guys really obsess about hipsters too much.

I remember an old song that went "Nobody wants to be called a freak, but everyone wants to get freaked."

It's the internet's. Don't take it so srsly.

LOL! YES! and... OnlyUndiesClub and LipstickParty and good ole Friendster... and AOL 3.0... and for the pervs, xpeeps... man I love social networking sites LOL.