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I'm a single/fixed gear nub
Hi everyone!
I just got into the whole single speed / fixed gear scene not knowing that here and everywhere else we are looked down upon or made fun of... It really discourages me that these other bikers (road bikers mostly) talk smack on people that prefer a single speed or fixed gear bike. I mean, is there anything wrong with riding this way? I just want to know why everyone is so anal about it. I just feel that people put a bad name to it since it's the "in" of today. But who knows I'm just talking with a 1 month experience to this bike culture. Here's a bad picture of my bike lulz. I'll take some better ones tonight :) It's a Vilano and it's just a starter bike for me. I call her "Black Die-I-Might" due to an incident I had already with the bike. I was hit by an f-350 (side view mirror) but i was literally knocked off and both the bike and I survived and nothing damaging at all. http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs383...._2928305_n.jpg |
Forget the tribal warfare. There are fixie riders who look down on roadies, steel framers who look down on aluminum, spandex people who look down on skinny jeans, hipsters who look down on commuters, and it goes on and on and on and on. Almost everyone who rides bikes in North America is doing it at least in part because they like it, and almost everyone is just out for fun and happy that you are too.
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Originally Posted by Syscrush
(Post 10529423)
Forget the tribal warfare. There are fixie riders who look down on roadies, steel framers who look down on aluminum, spandex people who look down on skinny jeans, hipsters who look down on commuters, and it goes on and on and on and on. Almost everyone who rides bikes in North America is doing it at least in part because they like it, and almost everyone is just out for fun and happy that you are too.
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Originally Posted by amptek
(Post 10528903)
I just got into the whole single speed / fixed gear scene not knowing that here and everywhere else we are looked down upon or made fun of... It really discourages me that these other bikers (road bikers mostly) talk smack on people that prefer a single speed or fixed gear bike. I mean, is there anything wrong with riding this way?
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What is a nub?
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You think other types of cyclists look down on you? Just wait until you get a taste of the infighting/class warfare that exists right here. Nobody hates us like we do! Die hipster, die!
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Originally Posted by LoRoK
(Post 10529711)
You think other types of cyclists look down on you? Just wait until you get a taste of the infighting/class warfare that exists right here. Nobody hates us like we do! Die hipster, die!
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I commute, in lycra, on a C&V steel conversion. I hate myself.
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Just rid yur bike nub...
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hahah!! Thanks guys for the kind words. Yeah I've been looked down upon for years when i started rollerblading and that **** sucked ass. But i'll keep my head up and ride what i want. :)
Oh and a nub is just another way to spell/say "newb" hehe |
Where do you live?
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Originally Posted by shubonker
(Post 10531117)
Where do you live?
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Originally Posted by caloso
(Post 10529732)
I commute, in lycra, on a C&V steel conversion. I hate myself.
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How funny i live in Orange county also.
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Originally Posted by Syscrush
(Post 10529423)
Forget the tribal warfare. There are fixie riders who look down on roadies, steel framers who look down on aluminum, spandex people who look down on skinny jeans, hipsters who look down on commuters, and it goes on and on and on and on. Almost everyone who rides bikes in North America is doing it at least in part because they like it, and almost everyone is just out for fun and happy that you are too.
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Originally Posted by wroomwroomoops
(Post 10532831)
Except for singlespeed people: they are humble, honest, smiple cyclists who don't look down on anyone, and are kind to everyone. Take me, for example.
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It's weird that you don't get this sort of rivalry in Japan. I must be a western thing...
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Originally Posted by the_don
(Post 10532928)
It's weird that you don't get this sort of rivalry in Japan. I must be a western thing...
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Seems like it makes sense. Western culture did pretty much forced new ways to the Eastern region. But honestly, I don't look down on anyone doing anything with their lives. It's what they want and we all have to accept it.
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Originally Posted by Syscrush
(Post 10532921)
That's why nobody trusts you bastards. ;)
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Originally Posted by wroomwroomoops
(Post 10533079)
They do and as well they should. Singlespeeders are all about humility and honor. Honor, humility and self-confidence. Actually, honor, humility, self confidence and an almost fanatical devotion to ... nothing, really. Nobody expects THAT!
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Do people really turn their noses up at fixed gear riders? I know there is (or used to be) a bit of a backlash from people who felt that non-bike messengers shouldn't be riding fixed gear bikes for some reason. I read a blog recently where the author referred to track bikes as "messenger bikes"... that whole attitude always seemed kind of odd to me. Bike messengers didn't invent track or fixed gear cycling, and from my personal experience the only thing most fixed gear riders have in common with messengers is that they can't coast on their bikes. I live in Florida and I don't think I've ever even seen a bike messenger here. Nothing against messengers, but I certainly don't find that career to be anything special... certainly not special enough to warrant imitation.
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Originally Posted by Bobby Sixkiller
(Post 10533854)
Do people really turn their noses up at fixed gear riders? I know there is (or used to be) a bit of a backlash from people who felt that non-bike messengers shouldn't be riding fixed gear bikes for some reason. I read a blog recently where the author referred to track bikes as "messenger bikes"... that whole attitude always seemed kind of odd to me. Bike messengers didn't invent track or fixed gear cycling, and from my personal experience the only thing most fixed gear riders have in common with messengers is that they can't coast on their bikes. I live in Florida and I don't think I've ever even seen a bike messenger here. Nothing against messengers, but I certainly don't find that career to be anything special... certainly not special enough to warrant imitation.
Originally Posted by BikesnobNYC
"Save The Track Bike" is actually about making sure people remember that the "OGs" of the fixed-gear scene (meaning the people who have been riding track bikes since waaay back in 2005) are still cool. I know what else you're thinking: "Aren't the people now trying to save track bikes the ones who ruined them in the first place by putting Hed 3s on their keirin bikes after watching MASH?" Absolutely not. In the fixed-gear universe, these are the very people who invented track bikes. See, track bikes were invented in or around 2005, and the scene reached its apex in early 2009, at which point it was promptly closed. It's vitally important that the new generation of fixed-gear freestylers regards them as the pioneers they are instead of dismissing them as the creepy old guys at the party which is what they look like now.
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Originally Posted by wroomwroomoops
(Post 10533079)
They do and as well they should. Singlespeeders are all about humility and honor. Honor, humility and self-confidence. Actually, honor, humility, self confidence and an almost fanatical devotion to ... nothing, really. Nobody expects THAT!
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Bike messengers tend to be seen by many as fringe / anti establishment types who oddly enough... earn their living off the establishment.
Truth is that many are only there because they are addicted to fresh air and adrenalin and many of the guys here are family guys with wives and children and a mortgage. Keep riding long enough and your fixed gear will start looking like this... and you might even have a bike or 7 with gears. http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/uav2010a.JPG |
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