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edmundane [quote]tynan [quote]lpg Fixed wheel bikes, like tamagotchis, flared jeans and pagers, will go out of fashion.
What fresh hell is this !?
Out, you say !? I have just dropped 200 nuggets to have a custom tamagotchi pocket sewn into my flares !
Nobody told me about any of this 'out' stuff.[/quote]
nah he's stating those famous OUT examples
like the german angry kid and all your base you know[/quote]
I have no clue what any of what you wrote means ? :(
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asm Why do some people ride bow-legged? I saw someone riding a rather swish geared bike like that, and tried it myself. Just felt a bit like a fool. Are they just bow-legged in nature or what?
its to do with knee joints, and if you're a MTBer or ever were one, its to do with balance.
road riding is all about knees to the tube. -
as cycling gets more and more popular, (cycling is gaining popularity, with an 83% increase in the capital since 2000" taken from this report http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/09/study-meeting-l.html ) different styles of bikes will come and go out of fashion, its just the way of the world. I've ridden pretty much the last twenty years, I ride because its my main form of exercise, (Studies have shown that regular cyclists typically enjoy a level of fitness equivalent to someone 10 years younger, and those cycling regularly beyond their mid-thirties add two years to their life expectancy. from this article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2500754.ece )and if i don't i get grumpy without that days endorphin hit, I ride because its cheaper and because it makes going on tubes and buses an adventure because I'm not using them everyday, it makes london feel smaller, I can pretty much be anywhere in half an hour or thereabouts, and I ride because its fun, jumping in and out of traffic, no congestion charge, no worries about parking - though this is offset by "the fear" of having bike stolen.
I presume I'll continue to do so for another twenty, and hopefully I'll be that cool old dude who cycles that really old skool fixed gear when everyone else has moved onto something else. -
when i am an old man other people will pedal ME around :)
on a mutant bike that looks like a giants handthats after the carbon apokolips of course
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cornelius blackfoot as cycling gets more and more popular, (cycling is gaining popularity, with an 83% increase in the capital since 2000" taken from this report http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/09/study-meeting-l.html ) different styles of bikes will come and go out of fashion, its just the way of the world. I've ridden pretty much the last twenty years, I ride because its my main form of exercise, (Studies have shown that regular cyclists typically enjoy a level of fitness equivalent to someone 10 years younger, and those cycling regularly beyond their mid-thirties add two years to their life expectancy. from this article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2500754.ece )and if i don't i get grumpy without that days endorphin hit, I ride because its cheaper and because it makes going on tubes and buses an adventure because I'm not using them everyday, it makes london feel smaller, I can pretty much be anywhere in half an hour or thereabouts, and I ride because its fun, jumping in and out of traffic, no congestion charge, no worries about parking - though this is offset by "the fear" of having bike stolen.
I presume I'll continue to do so for another twenty, and hopefully I'll be that cool old dude who cycles that really old skool fixed gear when everyone else has moved onto something else.Yeah..you're right.
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Ive been riding bikes in one way or another for the past 25 years and riding fixed wheel or track bikes for the last 6 years so I can see any reason to stop in the next 5. Although when I move back to London in the next 6 months I'll probably buy my first car (probably a van) but this will be used more for getting out of London, I have no intentions of using it to get about London.
I also find it quite strange that so many people are getting annoyed at new riders, I doubt these people have been riding fixed for that long themselves. Personally I like the growing fixed scene and am always trying to encorage my friends to get a bike as I reckon they will enjoy it.
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Surely the question should be "What will you be riding in five years?" I find it quite odd to ride anything with a freewheel these days, I forget to break and am constantly waiting for the pedal stroke, can't imagine riding anything else. But I know that I will, I hope to grow old riding gracefully, perhaps a Pashley sit up and beg, the missus siting on the rattrap frame as we cruise down the boulevard to our favorite bistro, some shit like that..
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eyebrows [quote]asm Why do some people ride bow-legged? I saw someone riding a rather swish geared bike like that, and tried it myself. Just felt a bit like a fool. Are they just bow-legged in nature or what?
its to do with knee joints, and if you're a MTBer or ever were one, its to do with balance.
road riding is all about knees to the tube.[/quote]I went from MTB to a fixed road bike and rode in a bow-legged manner, I honestly didn't realise it until I switched to SPDs which I fitted straight and it forced me to ride with with my knees more together, which now I'm used to it makes a lot more sense :)
I'm sure in 5 yrs time I'll still be riding a fixed and mountainbike, hopefully more than I do now. I started riding fixed to try and get fitter and commute to work faster (45min walk or 25mins on the bus). I started riding my old MTB, then built up a hybrid for a friend (with a freebie frame from another friend) and realised how much quicker and easier skinny 700c rubber was compared to 2.3 wide mtb rubber. So I converted my old mtb to fixed with 700c wheels and I'm loving it, my main reason for fixed is that I have to pedal all the time so I must be getting more excercise than on a freewheel.
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BillB My main reason for fixed is that I have to pedal all the time so I must be getting more excercise than on a freewheel.
Supposedly any time spent on a fixed wheel bike is the equivalent of 3 and 5 times more time spent on a geared road bike. Also it helps your pedal stroke smooth itself out.
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Oh yeah. My answer. Almost forgot. I'd not ridden a bike since I was 17 (now 21) before I bought my Fuji in September so I've only been riding for 3 months in the last 4 years. When I move back up to Glasgow and it rains almost every day I'll probably not get out on the bike as much as now but when I finish my uni course in June 2009 I'm hoping to do a medicine degree so that'll be another 5 years of economising my monies so I fully expect to be riding the Fuji in 6 years time.
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My club's star rider, although not what I would describe as bow-legged, does ride in a "knees-out" style.... he's also topped the BC national points rankings many times and holds loads of national medals and world masters medals...so what can you say, yes it is probably not the most efficient style, but it works for him....
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asm Why do some people ride bow-legged? I saw someone riding a rather swish geared bike like that, and tried it myself. Just felt a bit like a fool. Are they just bow-legged in nature or what?
Dunno, but don't laugh at them too much - Fabio Parra had the worst bow-legged, frog-in-a-box pedalling style I have ever seen. But he could kick your arse, my arse, in fact everybody on this board's arse going up a hill.
Check this post on le grimpeur blog for more on the Angels of the Mountains.
Oh shit, these guys are riding gears...
... never mind.
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im an old fart. ive been riding for ages now...started off with a junior road bike when i was about 10...then bmx. then religously, on mtb for xc rides the last 5yrs. switched to road since moving to london and fixed last couple of months. main reason for getting onto fixed is simply cos i wanted to try it and wanted a simple fast commuter. and they look like they're fun to ride...and they are! and also cos serious riders swear that they're good training tools...not sure yet, but i think it has improved my cadence and strength.
def still be on the bike in 5yrs time. maybe for another 20yrs...depends. if my back gives in, id still ride...on a fixed recumbent?
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Fabio Parra had the worst bow-legged, frog-in-a-box pedalling style
my pedaling style would be 'pig in sauna having seizure'
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