Being laughed at riding fixed?

ha! hes on a non stop pedaler said a chav

i get some odd looks when people notice there's no gears and a few comments when sat outside a pub with it but nothing more than that. fixed gear and single speed hasn't really made it up here yet i've only seen 1 other person on a single speed (i was geared at the time so didn't stop him) maybe next time.

Mon dieu, sacre bleu ! ou est des frien ? qu-est-ce que un bicyclette anglais? c'est unsupportable!

not usually in slow heavy traffic but i use the drops on garret lane, between elephant-kennington-stockwell-clapham-balham and when going over the bridges waterloo/london or any other straightish lo
ng bit of road i encounter on my commuting journies

exactly the same here, and the horrid head-on wind on Waterloo Bridge when I tried to get across it.

Mon dieu, sacre bleu ! ou est des frien ? qu-est-ce que un bicyclette anglais? c'est unsupportable!

translation?

translation?

My god, great scott! Where is the brakes. What is a English bicycle. It's to much. [sic, passim]

Riding up camden high st, some fucking prick pretends to punch me as I ride past him. further up near the lock, a white guy with dreads (why?) pretends to pull his trousers down and act as if taking a shit infront of me. Obviously from cornwall, listens to techno and rides a gay longboard. I hope he dies. I hate camden.

Riding up camden high st, some fucking prick pretends to punch me as I ride past him. further up near the lock, a white guy with dreads (why?) pretends to pull his trousers down and act as if taking a shit infront of me. Obviously from cornwall, listens to techno and rides a gay longboard. I hope he dies. I hate camden.

i hate white people with dreads.

people always take the piss, no matter how serious your plight might be

I've only ever had the odd sarcastic comment or expletive thrown my way before from motorists and to be honest i look goofy when i ride so maybe it was warranted. Yesterday however......

I was trackstanding at a set of lights when some barely pubescent div pulled up next to me. The shiny new motor his parents had bought for him was filled with obnoxious and raucous children heckling me and inexplicably, one of them pelted me with a fucking egg!

I almost toppled but managed to unclip and stay upright. The lights were still red and i moved in front of the car while shouting and threatening (unconvincingly). I'm usually a passive member of society and so would normally take the reg and report it, but rage took hold. As the lights changed and as the car of laughing children swerved and moved off i rammed my cleated sole into the door panel and gouged 4 feet of the paintwork.

The little fuckers stopped and were gearing up for a confrontation but i just sped off rather elated.

Maybe it was an overreaction. EDIT: No, they were cunts and hopefully learned a lesson.

There are some real knobs in Camden.
I had some twat try and punch me too once whilst going through a red. He was lining himself up in the road in front of me ( why not just carry on walking ). So I uncliped my right foot ready to take him down in case he tried anything. He thought better of it once he realised I wasn't gonna budge

Riding up camden high st, some fucking prick pretends to punch me as I ride past him. further up near the lock, a white guy with dreads (why?) pretends to pull his trousers down and act as if taking a shit infront of me. Obviously from cornwall, listens to techno and rides a gay longboard. I hope he dies. I hate camden.

I live down south near portsmouth, everyone I know thinks im insane for riding fixed untill I let them have a go and then they have a big grin on there face and wont get off it !!

Riding up camden high st, some fucking prick pretends to punch me as I ride past him. further up near the lock, a white guy with dreads (why?) pretends to pull his trousers down and act as if taking a shit infront of me. Obviously from cornwall, listens to techno and rides a gay longboard. I hope he dies. I hate camden.

Camden is cock-town all round...

To be honest though, I don't think most people are that observant that they notice if I've got gears of not. A guy did once shout "Fixed wheel freak" at me but I couldn't tell if it was the bad kind of freak.

Probably...

I never get anything except possibly from other people riding "fixies", my "fixie" definitely aint cool.

For the interfering peds I once got some divine justice. I was cycling along and some cockface out stretched both his arms and stood in the middle of the road, as I swerved around him a "snatched" his phone out of his hand. haha.

As for scratching the car, this should be your first port of call followed by smashing the mirror off or dropping your bike on their windscreen.

Peace

Hey - I'm a hipster twat with a Bianchi Pista! What're you trying to say?

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haha nice one man, my dad tells similar stories from when he used to cycle and one of his mates used to do that to cars a few times. dont think my dad would be brave enough to actualy do it himself though..

never had anything negative said to me, not to my face at least. sometimes people will just ask me why i have no brakes and i'll explain it to them and they'll look at me kinda dumbfounded. but i think there's riders out there who think that riding fixed-gear is the stupidest thing ever ;) lol. oh well

i hate white people with dreads.

scum of the earth. Boggles the mind why they still exist, west country is full of them too.

Many who feel the need to add colour to there offensive locks.

Crusties eh? kill em all.

and that's because of the bars is it?

man, your knees are gonna want to jump ship, kill or cure I guess.

with drops you can push up hills on the highest of gearings. You get to use your bodyweight+upper body strength to your advantage with drops.

"Obviously from cornwall, listens to techno and rides a gay longboard. I hope he dies."
hahahaha, so true

I was once riding up hill on a geared bike when a four year old child poked her head out of a car coming down the hill and yelled "Telly Tubby" at me.

That hurt. I was wearing black FFS. There is no black Telly Tubby.

I was once riding up hill on a geared bike when a four year old child poked her head out of a car coming down the hill and yelled "Telly Tubby" at me.

That hurt. I was wearing black FFS. There is no black Telly Tubby.

racist

More like "Tubby belly"...

Was at Tesco, Hackney unlocking my single speed the other day when a guy came up to me and said 'nice bike, is that one of those one-speed bikes?' I said 'Yeh is a single speed'. Carefully looking my bike up and down he then said 'So how do you brake?' I said 'With my front and rear brake mate!'
Who's laughing at who?!

on the way to loughborough junction a white van has past me 3 times at different hours, he is portuguese and leans out the window, like the ugly (from the good, bad etc) and whines "no brakes..."
even though i do. Always makes me laugh.