She looks like she's having fun on her bike and that isn't a bad thing.

I agree, at least she is out riding.

Nope. I meant to go but I was too tired by 9

DUE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

For real. As soon as my lady finds a photo job somewhere else, we're out of here.

I'll always love coastal MA because this is where I'm from but I hate how nothing ever happens here and regardless of how many times we've tried to make stuff happen and "create a scene" (for lack of a better term), it never pans out because people here are lazy. Also - we want to open up a proper, kick ass shop and that definitely isn't happening in these parts.

You describe where I live as well. Sure there are some riders in the area, but no real 'scene' as i've seen in other areas. We try to get some rides together, sometimes 2 to 6 people show. The only real rides that people actually show up to our the kitted out rodies for the rode riding 'scene'. Although most of them are real cool people, sometimes going for 30 mile rides through the corn fields gets boring. I'd like to have some more fun while riding every once and a while. Heck, maybe even do a bar hop on bikes one night.

Try to put together an Alley Cat, 8 people show up. Have an open house at the co-op that is trying to get started, no one shows up. Tough in middle Michigan when our states economy relates to automobile sales and people get upset when they find out you ride your bike to commute and do not use a car. Heck, its almost a personal attack to some people. Most families still survive from the big three, so not buying cars they feel is hurting their families income. Same reason why we have no public transportation in this state. Oh shoot, im about to start a rant...i must stop.

My confession: Man i need to move....


.Chris

I did my undergrad at GVSU. Grand Rapids is full of hipsters/fixies/founders. Move 2 hours west and you'll find a "scene."

Do it. I've got a rubber hose waiting for you, after what you did to my girlfriend.

hairnet - I was tired too. I showed up in my car to pick my jacket up from a friend. I was cruising next to the ride for a couple miles. someone shouted "move right before the car honks" and then someone yelled "it's cool, its the homie he's just in a 4 wheeled bike"

hahaha

More confessions:
I was out of town for a work conference since Saturday and missed my bike.
I drank a lot of beer the past 5 days. Wednesday night was the climax of bad drunken decision making -- closing out the bar at 2am with a few people and wanting more booze, ended up back at my hotel room raiding the honor bar. Waiting to see how much will be charged to my credit card for that. Didn't go to bed until 5am and had to be up at 7:30. Good times.

I need to get better at riding my bike drunk because I have a feeling there will be a lot of that this summer. I'm really too old for this lifestyle but oh well.

I'm getting impatient about not having heard from my LBS about the teeny Fuji coming in and will probably bug them about it tomorrow.

-just disregard this mumbo jumbo-

I grew up in western mass and moved back there after college. It is a great place geographically but after two years I had to get back up here to Vermont. Western Mass/north western CT was sucking the life out of me, lot of middle class white kids turning into heroin addicts it's sad. Moving up here, I reallly believe, saved my life.

Is it wrong that when I first looked at this photo, I thought she either had a weird pink dong or ***** hanging outta her shorts?

This thread kicks butt!:)

Confessions:

-I probably spend an average of 2.5 hours a day reading through BFSSFG.

-I rarely post even though I have opinions about much of what I read.

-Though its very convenient, getting a new job 1 block from my apartment blows, it's drastically reduced the amount of riding in my life.

-I sold 2 of my fixed gear bikes early this spring & converted the remaining one to a "coasty". Currently fixieless.:eek:

-Within the last 24 hours I ordered; frame, fork, pedals, pedal straps, handlebars, bottom bracket, chain, headset spacers & a set of tires, to build a new fixed gear bike.:D

:roflmao2:

red rocket

the strange thing is it appears to be poking into her right leg? maybe it possesses a life of it's own? (shrieks) ALIENS!!!

I had the type of night that would make scrodzilla move to LA.

And you're still awake? I want details.

You think the greater Boston area sucks? Try moving to the Springfield/Hartford area, full of suck. I mean there are tons of cyclists, if you count stuck up a-hole roadies.

Oh I know! I've got a few friends out in Springfield and get out that way every now and again. I hate that town.

Luckily I'm far enough away into the hills to not have to deal with BS.

Where at? I grew up over near westfield/southwick. Springfield is a dump but Holyoke is where the trouble is really at.

it would explain the big smile on her face, seems legit.

Southwick, right on Lake Congamond. There is a bike trail that runs from Simsbury into Westfield now that's a few hundred feet from my house, I like to cruise up and down it on the fixed. I save the "hills" into Granville and Tolland for the geared bikes.

So my confession for this post is I like to cruise the MUP on my sweet fixie and sup the hot chicks that walk/run it.

I was pretty confident I'd be test riding and - here's the confession - likely buying my first ss/fg this weekend but I guess not. Turns out those "unsellable" tiny frames (43cm in this case) that most LBSs refuse to stock sell out in like one week at the one shop that does carry them. Part of me wants to LOL, the other part of me wants to yell at people.

Guy at work here just called my fixed a "sweet bmx"

i pretend to love fenders but i really hate hate hate hate them

There are bikes I wouldn't buy just because I think they have silly names - such as: Nature Boy, Cream City, Sweet City, Smoothie...

Bikes with cool names - Bare Knuckle, Godzilla, Master Piu (reminds me of the blind dude on Kung Fu)

why you hate

f***ing lol