Gefährlich!
 

OMG!
Something oughta be done about them damn bikes!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...636573,00.html

I don't generally agree with laws that take place of common sense but I am happy that the police where I live are impounding bicycles without brakes but usually after the rider has done something stupid and illegal

Someone should make a thread about how they banned fixies in Berlin.

good, fixies are horrible to have in cities.


edit-- allow me to clarify-- I mean fixies without brakes, there are just too many uncertainties....

i have a front brake on my fixie not because i dont know how to ride a fixie but i dont trust those crazy people in the metal boxes

I have a brake on my bike because I realized after years of riding brakeless just how many people I knew who were getting knee surgery

that and I am pushing a high gear and ride off road at times

i despise the word "fixie"

mods: why did you delete my slowpoke :(http://www.terminally-incoherent.com...9/slowpoke.gif

As do I, but unfortunately I can't think of a more useful word to refer to all non-track-specific fixed gear bikes.

A 'fixed-gear bike'. A track bike is a track bike.

I also sometimes abbreviate it to just 'fixed', like 'I'm riding the fixed to the bar tonight'. Never 'fixie'.

Jesus Christ, You cant handle riding down Bardstown road without a brake?
Try times square.

Sometimes I ride like I have a brake.
Sometimes I have a brake.
Sometimes I ride like I dont have a brake.
Sometimes I dont have a brake.

I dont care if you have a brake.
I dont care if you dont have a brake.