FG = The New Skateboarding (this time it's true)

Well, I'm wearing a dress right now.

Are you wearing any panties?

Lots of skateboarders/bmxers ride fixed, but that is where the connection starts and finishes. There is already a name for FGFing or whatever you want to call it and thats Circus Bicycling, and its about as new as big ben.

The one thing that coming from a skate or 'action sport' background gives you is the vision to look at things from a "freestyle" perspective. Although my best skating days are well behind me i still look at every potential handrail/walride etc that i pass and imagine how i would tackle it.

However i am lucky enough to have a large quiver of bikes, so that i have a bmx that i use for when i want to, a DH bike, a ss hardtail, a 24Inch jump bike etc and from time to time i like to try and do stuff on one bike that it wasnt designed to do as its a challenge, but for me fixed will always be about charging round urban enviroments as fast as you can, thats were the buzz is for me.

That guy on the scooter makes me want to try that sh!t! I used to work for the playstation skatepark when it first opened, and we were always trying to ride anything we though we could round there for shits and giggles, from scooters to snakeboards to shopping trolleys! Some of the guys got pretty sh!t hot on the scooters

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Snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing, mtbing and bmxing (lots of 'ings) really puts into perspective that to ride FGF is gash

i'm a freestyle swimmenger.

The only person left doing it is rodney mullen, and as amazing as it is to look at it perfected, its too specific, and awkward to learn that no - ones properly into it.

Yo Yo Schultz is still doing it too, and selling freestyle gear from his webshop

" Lots of skateboarders/bmxers ride fixed, but that is where the connection starts and finishes. There is already a name for FGFing or whatever you want to call it and thats Circus Bicycling, and its about as new as big ben."

that would explain why people ride brightly coloured clown bikes then. mimicking the style and busting the moves like the finest children's entertainers.

Lovin this thread. Fixed is the new rollerblading. Stay outta the parks!

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[quote=MrSmith;196434]" There is already a name for FGFing or whatever you want to call it and thats Circus Bicycling, and its about as new as big ben."

well - yeah. But the magic word here is "marketing." Once someone realises that presenting it in a cool way is a winner with ver kidz it doesn't matter whether all those tricks were being pulled a hundred years ago in the circus ring.

That clip of four guys in lycra rolling around a gym on their back wheels isn't cool and marketable; scruffy, hip kids doing it on the street is, even if the four guys are pulling far more elegant stuff because after a short time their slickness works against them (though they didn't mix it up enough too). Similalry the first time I saw that Russian girl (?) doing her crazy shit I thought, "why is she wearing a leotard?" - she was outside. If she had done it in rolled up jeans and a backpack it would have been 50x as cool - as it is, she remains circus-bound just by the way she's marketing her skills. Card tricks weren't at all cool until Blaine decided his schtick was going to be "the street"....everyone knows Paul Daniels was pulling that shit and much better in the 80s but noone wanted to be associated with his approach.

I'm not a marketing expert and I don't even like to think I buy into it, and I'm not saying I don't rate people who can do mad tricks but can't think beyond their leotard. But it's fairly clear fixed tricks are going to have a big renaissance in the next few years if a few young kids start posting their meagre pallet of tricks on youtube.

everyone knows Paul Daniels was pulling that shit and much better in the 80s
Brilliant. This quote has made my day.

Paul Daniels, O.G.

he's got the "O" bit goin' on... :)

Anyone hear that 'rumour/fact'(whichever way you wanna look at it) about Paul Daniels and how he used to love watching Debbie get rodgered by the pet Alsatian? Or did I just fantasize about that one day?!

"Not a lot!!!"

Gotta get to Decathalon for some blades, love the tunes..

[quote=MrSmith;196434]" There is already a name for FGFing or whatever you want to call it and thats Circus Bicycling, and its about as new as big ben."

well - yeah. But the magic word here is "marketing." Once someone realises that presenting it in a cool way is a winner with ver kidz it doesn't matter whether all those tricks were being pulled a hundred years ago in the circus ring.

That clip of four guys in lycra rolling around a gym on their back wheels isn't cool and marketable; scruffy, hip kids doing it on the street is, even if the four guys are pulling far more elegant stuff because after a short time their lack of slickness works against them (though they didn't mix it up enough too). Similalry the first time I saw that Russian girl (?) doing her crazy shit I thought, "why is she wearing a leotard?" - she was outside. If she had done it in rolled up jeans and a backpack it would have been 50x as cool - as it is, she remains circus-bound just by the way she's marketing her skills. Card tricks weren't at all cool until Blaine decided his schtick was going to be "the street"....everyone knows Paul Daniels was pulling that shit and much better in the 80s but noone wanted to be associated with his approach.

I'm not a marketing expert and I don't even like to think I buy into it, and I'm not saying I don't rate people who can do mad tricks but can't think beyond their leotard. But it's fairly clear fixed tricks are going to have a big renaissance in the next few years if a few young kids start posting their meagre pallet of tricks on youtube.

here you go - you summed up my initial thought better than I could.

Anyone hear that 'rumour/fact'(whichever way you wanna look at it) about Paul Daniels and how he used to love watching Debbie get rodgered by the pet Alsatian? Or did I just fantasize about that one day?!

"Not a lot!!!"

I heard Paul walked in on her the first time and Debbie was saying, "now THAT'S magic"....

Debbie Does Doggy

Basically, it all comes down to this: Nothing is the new skateboarding. Not FGF, not snowboarding, certainly not snakeboarding or snakebladeboarding (gheeeey! htfu!). These days -thanks to youtube- everything and anything becomes a hype... thousands of kids film themselves dancing the new hip dances (search: jumsptyle, jumpen, melbourne shuffle, tecktonic) and marketeers market the hell out of it but it's still just dancing. Same for all new 'extreme' sports.
Skateboarding is what it is and no other extreme sport comes close. The 'aggressive inliners' tried to steal the whole look and attitude but it's still nowhere near what skateboarding is. Snowboarding and BMX are equally established and deserve equal respect if only for not pretending to be the new whatever.

That being said, it's time to sell your fixed gear bike because THIS really IS the new shit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWJhF7yfnI4

But really, this is even crazier... I've seen Og skate in real life and all I can say is: respect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQbB8ayMlAs

sick^

thats absolutely amazing. his hands must hurt so much

WOW. Props to Og.

there is no point comparing FGF to skateboarding, because they are not the same, they were born out of different things and skateboarding has been around for so long compared to FGF which is relativly new, considering most have come to it not from a circus bike background but from bmx/sk8boarding background i think its silly to say its just circus bikes in the street. although many tricks can be compared to circus bikes, the whole skid thing came from bmx and powersliding on skateboards. also i dont think its right to compare it to stupid fads like snakeboarding and even scooters, although these were at points big, they were born out of mainstream advertising and creation of hype, where as FGF was born out of more subtle hype and grass roots level creation therefore, although they could be compared because of the way they came and went in such a short time, i think that due to the nature and origin of FGF it is better not to.

although it could be argued that FGF will become just like other obscure bike sports which have grown in the last years, "MTB frame and wheel sizes, even 24'' are just completely inferior to a bmx to do tricks on. Just as mountain bikes should stick to cross country, downhill and bullshit industry coined 'freeride' + 'all mountain" i think that there is space for it and i think it will evolve and change, even if the stuff being done at the moment is gash compared to anything a 10 year old can do a skateboard. so basicly, knock it if you want but it is bound to grow and then go mainstream, and then once that slows down we can see what its like, but considering most of us debating this came from a sk8board/bmx background i think that what draws me to it is the idea that as a global community were creating something relativly new and pushing the limits on the way a particular bike can be used ON THE STREETS, and because it hasnt been done on fixed to this extent before i think its really exiting seeing as pretty much everything i do on my sk8board or someone else does on their bmx has at some point been done before, heck most sk8 movies are now resorting to special effects (yeah right) or moving to japan to film new spots (live from Antarctica).

http://www.vimeo.com/1156102

it's pretty sick this threads up, i didn't think many people on the forum were interested in skateboarding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgvZLNVdX_0

fully flared kick ass.

by the way, the only reason i'm hating on FGF is because I can't do anything besides ride on my FG... ;)

WOW. Props to Og.

word, MAD props to Og...

i think comparing fixed gear to other stuff is totally pointless. i see a lot of people doing stuff that ought to be done on BMX etc but it's all new and people are still finding out what's possible. Ever seen the early days of skateboarding? some of the most revered tricks look straight up ridiculous now. our bikes have a lot to offer, as this forum proves, and i'm always happy to see anyone pushing the limits. it comes from somewhere, has history and with it integrity.