Brian

OK then.

not required

I sort of hope the hipness is dying out, mainly because I have a cheap conversion and therefore am not cool
I just want the good parts to get cheaper, like when BMX went out of fashion

TejanoTrackie 

No, but my dad did.

kubrick215

Your dad is a hero, no question! You are a bit too self-righteous though about kids and their "fixies".

mconlonx

Back in the mid- to late-'09s, motorcycle garage builders were saying how all the yuppies and RUBs who bought Harleys because they were a fashion statement would be letting them go for pennies on the dollar. "Aaaaany time now." Decade later, it still hasn't happened.

If it does, if you see FG bikes going cheap, buy them, store them for 20 years, then cash in on all the nostagia--you'll make a killing on Kilo TTs, selling them back to mid-lifing hipsters.

Brian

Where have you been? I see Big Dogs that cost $25k selling for $17k 4-6 months after purchase.

bbattle

And insist they'd been doing it for years.

ianjk

Yup. Been seeing quite a few "Custom Choppers" with very, very low miles for sale - cheap. The modern custom bike trend crack me up, the first thing most people ask me when I tell them that I have a chopper is "What size is rear tire?".

ilikebikes

thats the reason the members are leaving, whats the reason fg is going the way of the dinosaur? I've noticed people selling most if not all of their fg **** on C-List, and I've also noticed a lot of people selling their fg bikes too, no where near as many fg riders as their used to be either, I see way more geared bikes out their now.

Brian

To be fair, I mostly see Republic bikes, bad conversions going for high prices, and the occasional BD bike.

icyclist 

"I've noticed people selling most if not all of their fg **** on C-List"

And before this you made a habit of noticing that people weren't selling the fg**** on C-List? :-)

m4ximusprim3

I started on road bikes, then got a fixie for winter commuting (mechanical simplicity) and now am building up a cutter/fu-manchu with b43's because I found myself bombing off drops like I used to do when I was a kid (and consequently i keep breaking stuff off my steamroller ).

As you find your needs evolving, your bikes evolve too. I'm sure I'll end up with more than 3 bikes eventually- as long as you buy based on stuff you do, rather than stuff you want to do, you're gravy in my book.

spcialzdspksman

This thread should be named "Hipsters in Denial Criticizing Openly-Hip Hipsters".

Am I a hypocrite?
Maybe.

Am I a hipster for revealing the truth?
**** yes.

Brian

Yes, I'm older than old school.

wroomwroomoops

I'm more interested in the trend of singlespeed cycling: they have never been "cool", but definitely a demographic interested in simplicity AND functionality. And I have the impression a lot of fixed gear guys have been silently (extremely stealthily) converting from FG to SS. They would never admit it, I presume, if their lives depended on it.

elTwitcho

I hope the trend doesn't die off too soon. Right now is a great time to be into fg bikes. Lots of people to meet interested in similar bikes, tons of stores carrying bikes and parts, and tons of events going on. You're never going to be cool and underground riding a fixed anytime in the near future, so having the trend die off is going to be less good for those of us that stick around than you guys seem to think

Haagenize

You guys may have mistaken but just because 1 conversion or track bike goes on craigslist every week, doesn't mean its dying. On campus, I've seen more fixed gears this year then the last, not just a slightly more, about 500% more. Now when trends usually hit the midwest, they are almost about to die, so I wouldn't be surprised if "fixies" did die off this year

mconlonx

I said "garage builders"--$17k is not even close to being affordable. This was at a time when they were thinking the $12-20k Harleys would start showing up for $5-8k, or less. They were targeting the late 90s as when that would happen. I believe their prediction was a bit off...

Brian

Depends on who's writing the check, I suppose, but $17k is probably on the low side for many buyers. When I bought my Harley, we did all the paperwork at the credit union where we both bank. I watched the guy sign a withdrawl slip to make up the difference between what he owed and what I paid, and it was pretty painful. But one difference between bicycles and motorcycles is that more people might be inclined to see a bicycle as a way to save some money when the budget gets tight. Sadly, the economy is so bad now that even I can no longer pay cash for a new motorcycle every year.

h0axwa7k

I've noticed gravel, sand, and water do not like my road bike very much. Listening to the grit caught between the fork's taint and the front tire does nothing for me.

Enter fixie, the perfect winter bike.

Maybe the tarck thing dies off, but the fixies are here to stay.

badonis

Well I just got into it, and I'm loving it. It just gets really expensive really fast when you want to upgrade parts... and I'm broke.

ScottNotBombs

I still see a lot of fixed gears in Chicago, especially in the Wicker park area. I mostly just ride a fixed gear for a winter bike..

ScottNotBombs

+1. I don't see very many tarcky bikes anymore.

erichsia

everyone loves it for the first 6 months, give or take. love it for more than a year & a half, then we'll talk. if riding fixed is your introduction to bicycles, and you're over the age of 25, all bets are off.

badonis

Nope, definitely not my introduction to bicycles. I actually hated on a lot of my friends that rode fixed before I even tried it, but I take all that ****-talking back.