Question: Do you look Down at SS riders?
11-21-08 | 07:12 PM
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Though I have to be honest, those impure fixie riders are always trying to get me to do smack.....I hate peer pressure.
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11-21-08 | 08:05 PM
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Pretending to pedal? How, pray tell, does one do a convincing job of pretending to move one's pedals around in a circle without actually moving one's pedals around in a circle?
11-21-08 | 08:18 PM
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I ride fixed, I don't have two brakes on it so SS is out of the question right now. I also ride my 2x7 road bike.
Just ride... matters not what it is. (that's a 'no')
Just ride... matters not what it is. (that's a 'no')
11-21-08 | 09:31 PM
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I would think an impure fixie would be either rides other bikes or rides with a brake and possibly a flip flop hub? Or, most likely, by ease of use the keyboard has encouraged the poster to type extra words that aren't required, I find myself doing that quite often and being misunderstood, heh.
I stopped riding fixed all the time and now go single speed (with two brakes of course). I forgot how much fun coasting is, and what a nice reward for climbing a hill!
I stopped riding fixed all the time and now go single speed (with two brakes of course). I forgot how much fun coasting is, and what a nice reward for climbing a hill!
11-21-08 | 09:44 PM
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11-21-08 | 10:14 PM
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when i first got my ss conversion, i thought i was just as cool as those FG hipsters i see on rides. but once i got my fixie, i realized i was now much cooler than the other SS and conversion riders. and my kilo tt is much cooler than the other kilo tt's out there in LA.
11-21-08 | 10:58 PM
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i ride fixed and geared, and whenever riding i inspect any single speed rider to determine if they are running fixed or not, and if i catch them coasting i zoom past them with a scornful expression (and a brief mid-skid once in front of them if im on my fixie) and add them to my mental hate list.
hope that answers your question.
hope that answers your question.
11-22-08 | 12:57 AM
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i ride fixed and geared, and whenever riding i inspect any single speed rider to determine if they are running fixed or not, and if i catch them coasting i zoom past them with a scornful expression (and a brief mid-skid once in front of them if im on my fixie) and add them to my mental hate list.
hope that answers your question.
hope that answers your question.
11-22-08 | 01:07 AM
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11-22-08 | 01:16 AM
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I'm 7'3", so I get to make some joke about literally looking down on everyone on this forum right now. Did you seem me do it? I did.
11-22-08 | 01:22 AM
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From: My response would have been something along the lines of: "Does your bike have computer controlled suspension? Then shut your piehole, this baby is from the future!"
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You see, their morals, their code...it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these...These "civilized" people...they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve
You see, their morals, their code...it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these...These "civilized" people...they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve
11-22-08 | 01:33 AM
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11-22-08 | 01:54 AM
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I think the OP meant "Purely a fixed-gear rider"instead of "pure fixie rider" and that has caused a lot of the hostilities directed toward the OP.
11-22-08 | 01:59 AM
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no i got what he said, i'm gonna still say that suicide would be the best option. if youre seriously defining your being on something as trivial as the manner in which a cog on a machine operates, a machine that you happen to sit on for maybe 30 minutes a day, you have a real personality deficiency.
If someone IRL said to me "im a fixed gear purist" i'd have to choke back a mixture of howling laughter and loathing induced vomit.
If someone IRL said to me "im a fixed gear purist" i'd have to choke back a mixture of howling laughter and loathing induced vomit.
