Fixed gear + popular culture.
02-06-09 | 11:10 AM
#26
K2ProFlex baby!
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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!"
Bikes: to many to list
Skeeters up there with A.Einstein 
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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
02-06-09 | 02:46 PM
#29
sucker for lugs
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From: Denver
Bikes: Shogun 800 (had to cull the herd)
I think this is just how lazy animators and the general public view bicycles in general. Saw one in a political cartoon that had the stem on backwards. Made me kind of want to try it...
02-06-09 | 02:53 PM
#30
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Alfred E. Newbie
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02-06-09 | 05:57 PM
#32
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From: Brooklyn Zoo via 61ooo
yo son. easy. skeeter ain't no jackass. he's rocking an Affinity pursuit style frame with a hed. solid rear wheel and a hed. tri spoke in the front. plus he's got matching knickers, adidas kicks, and a flash jersey. and a time trial helmet. and his gear ratio is off the hook. in the early 90s. what.
05-10-09 | 01:42 PM
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Alfred E. Newbie
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05-10-09 | 01:59 PM
#36
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From: Delaware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QBOJZolP6o
Motion City Soundtrack - LGFUAD video.......skip to 1:35. b123s ftw
Motion City Soundtrack - LGFUAD video.......skip to 1:35. b123s ftw
05-11-09 | 05:59 AM
#41
ECR
Joined: Nov 2008
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From: Scranton, PA
Bikes: Bianchi Pista/Fuji Nevada/Windsor Clockwork
there were a few in Heroes Season One in the background. there was also a "bike messenger" i forger if it was one or two. but he was wearing a Chrome Kremlin upside down. later in season three they went to bike Messenger Co. to get back the comic book that was give to the "Messenger" in a earlier season. there was a bike chase, but i am pretty sure it was a geared bike in that scene. i will have to go back on Netflix and try to find the episode to check it out.
05-11-09 | 07:57 AM
#42
on Baby Charlie Concept~
Joined: Feb 2009
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From: Bay'yayay
Coming back from The Tourist Trap yesterday, my neighbor's 10 year old kid came up to me as i was unloading my bike and said: "How much was that fixie?!" ..... how do 10 year olds know about fixed gears i now wonder.
05-11-09 | 08:04 AM
#43
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From: Atlanta
Bikes: Mercier Kilo TT Pro, Schwinn Le Tour Conversion, Free Spirit polo beater, Cervelo P2T, aluminum tandem.
There is an awful write-up in GQ about fixed gears also:
It's a large image ... if it isn't working for you, you can see it here.
It's a large image ... if it isn't working for you, you can see it here.
05-11-09 | 09:50 AM
#45
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From: Atlanta
Bikes: Mercier Kilo TT Pro, Schwinn Le Tour Conversion, Free Spirit polo beater, Cervelo P2T, aluminum tandem.
Not that this is the only thing I disagree with but I must say I am mystified at the whole "pointless keys" thing. I've heard about "pointless keys" in a variety of threads but never understood it. I mean, yeah, we don't have cars ... but don't we still need keys for other things? Personally, I have several keys ... for the front door of my apartment building, another for the back door, for my apartment door, for my mailbox, for my office, for my bike lock. That's 6 keys right there. I also carry (these could come off though since I don't often use them) 2 keys to my parents' house. Maybe I am missing something though.
05-12-09 | 11:25 AM
#49
its that damned rap music
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From: brooklyn, ny
Bikes: Kilo TT, Bianchi Pista Concept 2005, Shogun 600 ~1983
i just read the first line of that GQ article and im dying. they have to label it as a European trend to give it mystique for their sheepish readership to be interested. what snobs.
05-15-09 | 07:55 AM
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Nada Surf Video..im sure its been posted a billion times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLKvWf4Fd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLKvWf4Fd0