Damn, where'd all these RVA folks come from?!? I agree with the comment about Richmond being a city with colleges, not a college town. Try Harrisonburg for that. I've seen tons of fixed riders here in town, and most seem to be into the whole attitude thing. I commute to work on mine, a 70's Pugeout, with fenders (in the winter), mtn bike riser bars, and front brake. Once I rode up to this guy on a fixed, no brakes, bullhorns, dressed hardcore, and the guy wouldn't really talk to me. I tried to complement his bike and ask what gear ratio, but I guess since I wasn't hardcore enough he didn't have time. Bummer.

So I don't really try to stand out. I just ride my damn bike.

I like the allusion to Brohan, this is the page my search came up with so all in good time: https://brohan.twothreesix.com/

This is turning into a VA thread. Interesting.

So you got to go over the Blue Ridge to see a bigger fixt sceen. Excellent...

I set myself apart by passing the mantra and stocking cogs and lockrings(Including old BB rings) as well as wheelsets and doing geared-to-fixed conversions as well as trying to start a local winter alleycat(No success so far, got a bunch of ******* around here)

i wish my boss stocked more cogs, lockrings, and wheelsets...but we've only been around for like, 8 months, so i'll give him some time before i start droping serious hints. we've been selling more track stuff lately though (steamroller frame, a few sets of nitto bars, some chainrings...). hell, we don't even stock nice SS chains (and by "nice," i mean kmc 410NP, and the nickel plated Zs)...i need to give more input when we do orders.

I don't need to shtick out. The fact that I ride at all puts me at the top of the heap, that I ride FG more often than not just adds to the illusion of being. I can hang with the big boys out on the bike paths and streets, but I do it for me not to be different, although that is a benefit.

Rev,
A winter Alley Cat in GA in the dead of winter is a cool idea, what a bunch of *******. When and where? I can't promise I'll be ther but if it works out...

Well I agree with all of you on the "trying not to stand out" thing. Im mister paraniod and try not to attract too much attention to myself or my bike. I was manily talking about, or asking about how your bike stands out. What makes it unique or different then all the other fixies.

I laughed when I read this - 'riders of brohan' immediately brought to mind the Riders of Rohan from LOTR.

ghent/downtown. i'll probably start making it out to wards corner and possibly ocean view eventually.

Nobody but me cares about my bike or notices.

Phil

nobody cares, but i ride a track bike all day long in traffic, high, tired, heaving boxes around, and i can actually ride fast brakeless without hurting myself or anyone else. and i have a good time. so, what? to some people i stand out. to some people im a punk on a bike. to some people i dunno, im something else. some people notice the cranks, or the frame, or the cigarette im smoking, or the hole in my pants (**** i gotta fix that) but who cares what they notice?

just ride.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. There was that one time that a senile old lady kept telling me that I was a cop and that I wasn't doing my job by not taking down a police report or something. It was weird. I'm not sure it would mean me or my bike stands out. I would think there were other blue bikes around. If I had been a cop I would have pistol-whipped her. Crazy old lady. Just kidding, I can't bring myself to hurt people no matter how crazy or annoying they are.

NYC is lousy with fixed gear bikes -- it seems every time I turn around someone is riding some dream ride -- a 3Rensho, De Rosa, Cinelli, you name it. I guess folks here have a lot of cash to spend on bikes. It's pretty hard to stand out, and I'm not sure I'd really want to. It's funny, when I rode a flashy chrome pista no one noticed my bike, but I get a lot of comments on my current bike, an orange 1977 paramount.

I wear my tron-boy outfit.

Does it chafe at all? Or does yours include a chamois?

Naisme, should I ever get enough interest to put on an alleycat of any kind it will be posted here.

I am not even sure if it would really be an alleycat. The idea is a point to point to point race, picking up tags from each point. First back wins. Or maybe "Here are all of your points, do em in any order, first back wins" Maybe add in some package carrying or having to stop and pick something up from a store.
I should start a thread for ideas and work on it until fall.

I try not to stand out. I prefer to be invisible

I care. I care because you do.

I just have to say you have one of the best looking bikes I've ever seen! real nice job!

[165], you my hero. I'm not original, I do not stand out, I am "not a beautiful or unique snowflake"; I accepted this a while ago.

i don't.

i live in the mission in san francisco, where you can't throw a burrito without hitting someone and their fixie, so i don't get noticed at all.

i like it that way.

Many of the fixies here are ridden by posengers. Mine ride is all commutered up - rack, fenders, blinky lights. It's also home depot orange, which seems to help cars identify it as a moving object. I did fix it up to be noticed - by cars and stoopid drivers. But it doesn't get much attention from other riders, and that's fine by me.

All the roadies I ride with refer to my bike as the "funny" bike.

Even a fellow fixie rider did this last night.

BTW: I ride an older (not the curvy seat tube, the pursuit styled) KHS Aero Track that is neon orange, with deep track drops and a neon pink saddle.

Whoa, old thread dredge-up....

i don't stand out because i ride a fixie..i stand out because i'm not in full lycra training for triathalon's. the tampa/st pete area is one of the biggest areas in the country for triathlon's to live (so one of my friends who times triathalons tells me) so basically all you see is either those guys or bums riding their bikes with the flipped alchy bars. there are 3 other riders in the entire tampa/st pete area that i know of that ride fixed but i don't really get any attention. today was actually the first day anyone asked me about my bike, it was an older guys that works in the same building as me that used to race road bikes.