I think it would look funnier if someone was carrying their BMX bike out on the street.

To each their own - Fixed trick riders, and Fixed trick rider bashers. They are both entertaining to watch and to listen to. The riders because they are awkward and silly , and the bashers because they're arguments againsed are baseless and silly.

i started riding bmx before the first x-games. it was much more of a positive scene then. you ran into someone else with a bike (or a skateboard, for that matter) and you were instantly friends. most of my friends were skaters. we sessioned the same spots. we were all outcasts. it was the best time of my life. as time went on, i got way more into painting graffiti than riding my bmx. add injuries to that, and i had essentially dropped out of riding my bmx about 6 years ago. i still kept my bikes to dick around on, but between pursuing other interests and the fact that i couldn't stand the cliquey nature of the "scene" anymore, i found that the best thing to do was leave it behind and ride my bike (alone) at night.

when i decided to purchase a new bike, for the sake of transportation, i was attracted to the simplicity of fixed gears. i worked in a shop for several years and, honestly, i hate dealing with brakes/gears/etc.... plus, i like the aesthetic of a simple/classy looking bike.

what i cannot stand is the cliquey nature of people who own track/fixed gear bikes. it's overwhelmingly gay to care that much about what someones running or what someone else is doing. the way it is, i have severe social anxiety and i don't like people looking at me (on or off of a bike....) and being that i live in brooklyn, i don't want any part of the "scene" or anyone involved in it..... so, again, i ride alone and, usually, at night.

it's been mentioned already, but if you're looking to do tricks.... get a bmx bike. if you really want to sit in a parking lot and destroy your (generally) expensive fixed gear by doing tricks that lack the grace and style of tricks done on a bmx bike, good for you. have a super time. personally, i think it looks goofy and i'd rather go fast, but so long as you leave me alone.... i don't really care what you do.


i'd rather watch something like this any day of the week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xiJuHFEKKQ

When I was a kid, my friends and I used to dumpster-dive for big pieces of cardboard. We would take these old refrigerator boxes out to the park or a busy street corner and set up a boombox and bust out some pop and break moves to electro beats and drink little 25-cent juices and eat Funyuns.

Then those a-holes from the box company would come by and say, "Hey, you stupid punks. Your using that cardboard wrong. You're supposed to put a refrigerator in it, not dance on it!"

Jerks.


bf

If they can barspin, they're probably running brakeless, and we all know that's lame/stupid as hell..

What, seriously?

Like how fixed riders get **** for riding brakeless, but I have never seen anyone give a rats ass about the brakeless bmx'ers.
Damn double standards!;)

That's easy, it's because brakeless bmx kids are running little tiny gears and can't really get going fast enough to do much damage. Your average fixie kid is running 85" to 100", just waiting to go plowing into something..

yes?

Isn't saying you shouldn't use a track bike for tricks the same as saying you shouldn't use track bikes on the road? Either application is beyond the original intended usage of lapping the Velodrome.

That's why we're all in the SS&FG forum rather than the Track forum...

The Track forum isn't for running?!?!

What I don't understand is how people can actually care about this debate. Tricks on fixed gear bikes look stupid to me, but what difference does that make to anyone else? To car drivers anyone on a bike looks stupid, does that bother any of us?

Why should anyone give a **** what anyone else thinks about how they ride their bike? I have friends who get together on tuesdays and practice tricks on their fixed gear bikes. What do I give a **** what they do, it's their bike.

It's skateboard tricks applied to bicycles. Rather boring to me, but it's not hurting anyone ... unless they fall off that is. My paternal grandfather was a fixed-gear circus trick cyclist before there were "fixies."

The pirated soundtrack is cool. That's a lot of credits for such a short film though, huh?

Why do you even care?

I don't think the banned guy is going to respond, dude.

Exactly this, yes.

Some people like riding around at a decent clip, they like doing tricks, and they want to be able to do it on one bike. No, it's not as fast as a road bike. No, it's not as good at tricks as a BMX bike. But it is pretty fast, and pretty good at tricks.

You can prepare just about anything with a chef's knife, a paring knife and a bread knife. You don't need a different tool for EVERY job.

Yes you do, you do you do you do you do!

I just find it odd that the length of the video is like 3 minutes with half of it being credits for like 749 people.