HTFU and do your bike pushups!

Coffee shop sprints.

There is a Jimmy Johns across the street from my job. That place needs an intervention.

Delivery Guy #1 rides a single speed with brakes and his saddle pointed at 45 degrees downward. I see him several times a week and I have never seen him sit on the saddle.

Delivery Guy #2 rides a fixed gear with B43s, no brakes, risers using BMX pedals with no straps. Dude literally Fred Flintstones it to stop. Like BOTH feet flat on the ground sliding.

So, I'm on my way back from lunch and I see guy #2 pull up as I walk by JJ. I asked him what's up? Why no brakes or foot retention. He says that he didn't like straps and his wheels don't have a brake track. I tell him, "Man, I just don't want to see you slide in front of a car." His reply was a very cryptic, "A whale could eat me and he'd spit me out alive."

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/phot...67-696-538.jpg

:lol:

I think Jimmy John's may actually be a nationwide, underground fixie-hipster fight-club type deal. I've lived in a few different regions of the US and the JJ bicycle delivery riders are so similar it's uncanny.

I think his bars are closer to his cranks than to his saddle.

No brakes.

Can't stop.

Don't want to.

Found this on Pedalroom, 53x15 for his daily. Told him to fix his saddle, said it was designed to be that way....some people.


http://www.pedalroom.com/p/dodici-special-5091_9.jpg

http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/photos...h-trispoke.jpg


http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...jpg?1303162635

This is a race bike.

It's designed that way so that the rider can get very close to the motorcycle for an event called Derny Racing.

http://elcyclista.com/wp-content/upl.../03/track2.jpg

I can't wait for the hipsters to start riding those.

I'm curios what those rods are for.

fixed.

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The rod probably keeps the rider a specific distance, and it is most likely some sort of roller so if the tire bumps it the person won't fall.

forget the rod, what's that pneumatic jack like thing attached to the saddle and top tube?

Oh, didn't see those... derp... that is weird

It's a roller.

It's actually pretty exciting. Also you want a big guy as your driver. Bigger guys make a bigger draft area.

To keep the saddle from tilting down as they ride on the very nose of the saddle.

i can't even imagine a human-being riding that bike.. perhaps a different great ape.

Shazam......


they say the hardest part is explaining to your mom that you rollerblade

ah, I never would have guessed the clamps were that weak.
I guess it's the same for the bars?

Yup.