If you want to keep your handlebar clean then this is what you need...

http://www.lickbike.com/productpage.asp?PART_NUM_SUB='3226-00'

...and of course this…

http://www.lickbike.com/productpage.asp?PART_NUM_SUB='3210-03'

...I can’t stand wires.

As much as I never tire of the fixie culture elitism v. poseur battle that has once again reared its pretty head, what I really want to know is whether I can continue to drink Tang, even though I'm not an astronaut.

I must be a TOTAL Poseur...I drink grape Tang.

I never get discouraged when people call me a poser. When I started skateboarding at 12 I was called a poser. All those people weren't around to call me a poser when I was 27 riding a 12 foot halfpipe. People may call me a poser as they see fit butthe fact is that I will be cycling until I'm physically unable to do so anymore. If all goes as planned. I'll have a slew of bikes both geared and fixed and SS and choppers and cobbled together 3 speeds and whatever else I can dream/build up. Each day I'll choose what I want to ride. I've never ridden a velodrome, the closest I've been to one was seeing it from the highway driving through Indy. I've never been to a road race or a cyclocross race either much less raced in one. So should I sell my road bike too?

ROAD BIKE??? Poseur...
:D

"i ride bikes" is a thing my friend's collegiate team (UW-Whitewater) uses on shirts and pint glasses and whatnot. i've adopted it as my signature. i never quite saw the point in listing every bike i own. since the topic has been brought up:

2004 Gary Fisher Tassajara - my fun-in-the-dirt toy
2003 Salsa Campeon - my training/road race rig.
1970s Chimo Cobra - fixed conversion, currently in pieces in my attic, was used for Bike Polo and commuting
1999 Bianchi Veloce - current rainy day commuter. fixed. geared at 53x16
1980s Davidson Track - frame waiting to be built. fedex has hold of this one since they damaged the headtube in shipping. once that gets sorted out either it, or the frame i get with the money from the claim, will be my new race bike.


as far as the rest of the conversation goes, i'm through. i dont think anything is going to come out of it except for me looking like an ass, which really is nothing new.

Actuall it's a cyclocross bike set up with road slicks...I get a posing twofer. But that's OK Mommy says I'll find my niche someday.

Not my point at all. Just having a conversation.

two days ago I saw two kids looking at my pista while it was locked up. One was incorrectly explaining that my bike had a coaster brake! I explained that it was fixed gear and as I was leaving I heard him dismiss me for my "messenger-style." It honestly didn't bother me because I know I've ridden fixed through 2 Chicago winters. Heck now that bicycling magazine has pegged the pista the new hip thing I've come to expect some backlash, but the antidotefor me is rolling down Cortland Ave. and feeling the heat from A Finkel Steel or having a stroke while spinning out on the hills near the warren dunes of Michigan. Jeff

i know, it's just how i see myself coming across.

Cheese is fine as long as its on my Quarter Pounder. And supersize those freedom fries, squid.

The only time I drank PBR was when it was $7 for a pitcher and a pizza. You can't argue with the price even if it does taste like crap.