Finally finished my fixie (pics yo!)

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Imagine a bike with no gears and no brakes, save for your ability to slow your speed by putting pressure in the opposite way your feet are pedaling. Atop this bike, is a man-child, aged 19-27, with skinny matchstick diesel, Levi's, or other pants you get at Urban Outfitters, with a tanktop and flannel shirt (or some combination thereof), with wayfarers (be it knockoff or real), and a beanie or cycling hat and ironic mustache. Also, high top sketchers or Van's slippers.

This man/boy has never heard of the Rolling Stones, thinks MerriWeather Post-Pavilion is better than Sgt. Pepper's, and knows about a band that put out 56 limited run copies of a single they played in their garage into a bathtub microphone in December of 1982 and they are THE BEST THING EVAH, but you're not cool enough to know about them, so yeah.

Dec 11 2009 6:17PM

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Or this dude. RIP.

Dec 11 2009 6:23PM

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This man receives a trust-fund check (or has his parents pay for his schooling) every month, and owns a car. He lived in the suburbs for most of his life, but he has always felt a nagging sensation in his dirty-stache that he was meant to be poor, because, like, he connects with the working man and shit, despite never holding down a job that didn't involve coffee making or food. He believes he is an art student, and wants you to know that with as much zeal as his little stache can muster, so he constantly drinks coffee, smokes parliaments (cuz marlboro is like, so played), and goes to classes (when he does) that involve drawing or painting. Having no real talent of his own (or lacks the "discipline" whatever that is, to actually hone his craft), he aimlessly attempts to try all the stereotypical things "Artsy" people do, like starting bands without learning, painting (always abstract or tribal), and hanging out with other "artsy" people man. He knows he'll never be as good as them, but damnit, he's trying by Jove. I mean, what's he gotta do, work at being good? Naw man. Naw.

Dec 11 2009 6:24PM

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The_Cube

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ur fixes r mad sick yo this thread is lookin like pinkbike

Dec 11 2009 6:25PM

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I can go on for days. I live in fucking SLC.

Dec 11 2009 6:27PM

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theabortionator

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I didn't realize those had the pedal brakes too. With all the neon colors, not gay at all. lolz

Dec 11 2009 7:22PM

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StevenSegal

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That's my bike!

Dec 11 2009 7:28PM

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I have come to the conclusion that you are a hipster in disguise.

Dec 11 2009 7:46PM

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hey do whatever the fuck you want. honestly kids? we're gonna hate on another guys bike? wow that is moderately pathetic

Dec 11 2009 7:54PM

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I have come to a conclusion he is a legend

Dec 11 2009 7:54PM

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Fuck you for not hating.

Dec 11 2009 7:57PM

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your a tool, stop OBSESSING over hipsters.

Dec 11 2009 8:31PM

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boyd

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why is it even worth it to give a fuck about how other people live, eat, dress, and what bikes they ride? does it hurt or offend you? why complain? even if you think that fixies are gay it's not a bad thing people are riding them, at least they're riding bikes in lieu of fucking cars. if someone else wants to ride a different bike than you don't fucking piss yourself.

Dec 11 2009 8:38PM

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Why are you caring about people hating on other people? Does it offend you in some way, shape or form? Don't fucking piss yourself over it.

Dec 11 2009 8:45PM

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boyd

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i care because hating is bad, and does offend people.

Dec 11 2009 8:51PM

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high five!

Dec 11 2009 8:52PM

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You are hating on my hating. HATER.

Dec 11 2009 8:52PM

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Peter.

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i think mods should just delete all fixie threads, they just turn into huge shitstorms

Dec 11 2009 8:56PM

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Don't worry. I don't obsess. I just have an imagination.

Dec 11 2009 8:57PM

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boyd

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hater cubed?

Dec 11 2009 9:02PM

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jamodeo

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not a fixie but it does have one gear

Dec 11 2009 9:07PM

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Loving the colours.

Dec 11 2009 9:13PM

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I think fixies are stupid. i'd rather have a single speed with some brakes on it, or an old 10 speed. I also think the pictures above of the fixie with the armada stickers and that other one are fucking hideous. heres some pictures of beautiful bikes: http://bertinclassiccycles.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/stephens-yellow-bertin.jpg

http://oldtenspeedgallery.com/blog/wp-content/bikes/owner-submitted-0908/robert-fuji-special-road-racer-04.jpg

etc.

Dec 11 2009 10:49PM

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yojimbo

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what does slc have to do with it? theres fixie ridin' hipster fuck everywhere! there taking over the world!

Dec 11 2009 10:53PM

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-JME-

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naaa i think those bikes are hideous. the bikes with the armada stickers (my bikes) are real track bikes. as in fast as fuck. those are just rusty old steel frames

Dec 11 2009 11:09PM

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Has anyone read Catcher and the Rye? Who sees the similarities to Holden's dislike and judgement of phonies, and him being a sort of phony himself.

I think there's a name for this sitution, just can't think of it.

Dec 11 2009 11:24PM

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hahaha thats fuckin badass!

Dec 11 2009 11:53PM

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Hypocrisy.

Dec 12 2009 12:13AM

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SLC hipsters seem to take conforming to the stereotype SUPER seriously, like, no independant deviation whatsoever. And they are assholes, for the most part.

Dec 12 2009 12:54AM

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Don't go bashing something you don't know about.

I really don't think those "fucking hideous" even see pavement. He's not trying to be a hip fuck, those are his fast, expensive track bikes.

And at least post pics of really beautiful 10 speeds if your gonna use that argument. You posted 2 rusted dumpster bikes.

Dec 12 2009 1:34AM

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wh@t

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if i see another road frame fixed conversion i am gonna murder all of you fucking hipsters.

Dec 12 2009 1:49AM

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saskskier

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By no stretch of the imagination am I a hipster, but I do have a fixie. I also have a bmx and a mountain bike. I like bikes. I wanted a cheap, simple bike for getting around every once and a while. I don't ride it often, but I enjoy it. It adds a different element to riding and I think it's a good time.

How is the fixie/not fixie debate any different than poles/no poles or skinny pants, flannel shirts/xxxl and tall tees, helmet/no helmet, or park/pow debates?

Why is it a big deal?

Dec 12 2009 3:01AM

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michelle

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I don't know, maybe you should PM Arabian. He seems to be the only one to have a problem with modes of transportation.

Dec 12 2009 10:32AM

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Dntel.

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arabian, do you have something you would like to share? did some hipster wrong you in some way in the past?

Dec 12 2009 12:02PM

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*rkp*

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Nice bike. The only thing I would change is your stem to a negative rise. Try flipping it over.

I don't understand the FG hate. I'll attribute it to a bunch of 14 year olds jumping on the "hipster" hating bandwagon without an understanding of the positive attributes of fixed gear bikes.

Anyways, I'll support the OP. Have fun riding your bike!

Here's mine.

Dec 12 2009 12:20PM

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YOU FUCKING HIPSTER.

Dec 12 2009 12:35PM

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-JME-

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dude i love pursuit frames. and aerospokes, i have a couple. Kind of want to get a hed3 but duno

Dec 12 2009 12:39PM

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yeah man. totally.

every morning I wake up, reeking of stale PBR and pipe tobacco.

I take the time to make sure my hipster-stache is properly trimmed, and that my hair is adequately tousled.

I don my 300$ tight designer jeans (nudie, if you were wondering) and some beat-ass white vans (need that contrast). I throw my macbook into my messenger bag after eating an organically local-grown breakfast (bought at the farmer's market), grab my fixed gear bike, and leave the 350k$ condo my parents bought me. I ride my fixed gear with reckless abandon, through the rough and winding streets of Halifax, stopping for an americano (not just drip coffee) at the local fair-trade coffee shop. I reach my destination, dalhousie school of architecture, pull the kryptonite lock out of my back pocket, wipe the sweat from my stash, lock up and roll on in. It's way more alt. that all those poor suckers going to regular art school too.

but seriously, take that with grain of salt...

Dec 12 2009 12:45PM

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YOU SELF HATING HIPSTER.

Dec 12 2009 12:58PM

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I hope that doesn't leave the velodrome.

Dec 12 2009 1:01PM

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This one goes out to all the hipsters!

Dec 12 2009 1:51PM

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Skittle.

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bahahaha

Dec 12 2009 2:03PM

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i hate you

Dec 12 2009 2:38PM

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Dude, no one hates on Fixies because they're a bad bike or because they're a form of transportation. It's because they're all part of an image thing. It's like hating on grillz or suping up your Civic: It may be a way of improving your car, or protecting your teeth, but in the end, what people don't like is the person inside of the car.

Hipsters are sad and destructive. The whole culture is what pisses me off - not because of any specific item, but because they rip off EVERYONE. Hell, 99% of you have probably never even heard of a velodrome, so why do you need $900 aerospokes? Fixies are fun, but you have to admit they've become a really annoying trend and hipsters don't really understand that for some reason.

Dec 12 2009 2:55PM

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i demand an explanation for this "fixies" and this "hipster" cuz they just look like homosexual high schoolers.......

Dec 12 2009 3:05PM

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Fixed gears are gearless bikes. It's just one chain, and two cranks - no brakes. You slow yourself by putting pressure counter to your pedaling, and they're popular because of their ease of use, supposedly. They've become fashion statements rather than actual transport though.

Hipsters are the 19-27 somethings that wear the tightest pants, flannel shirts or white tank tops and bob dylan wayfarers and dirty mustaches. They blast Animal Collective down the hallways and think they're better than you for it.

Basically, these people: http://www.latfh.com

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