Mass Hipster?

You seem to have an incredibly short leg-to-torso ratio. Ive been researching anatomy a lot lately..

Oh, id also say that you were definetly NOT a hipster in the recent / fixed gear scene kinda way. You are obviously just a trendy guy who rides a bike. Not a blatant poseur ticking 'messenger culture' checklist. You have a very practical but very geeky cycling bag instead of a messenger one for a start, got both trousers rolled up and no ironic additions to your outfit or nu-rave bits. No old school oakleys/raybans or keys on a springy thing around your wrist etc etc.

I take it you have never met the boy they call asm? there is no way that one picture can tell the whole story...

I got mesured for a suit the other day and told I had unusually long arms. This is the first time I'd ever been told this and it hurt.

I don't think pointing out peoples flaws (legs of E.T. on asm) is very nice.

; )

what a fucking joke. who gives a shit. why does this pathetic word come up so much all the time on this forum? people are obsessed by it.

Overreaction.

I mean, I am just getting into single speed because I can't be arsed with gears or maintenance and cost and want to get bloody fit.

Are you sure those are the only reasons?

Overreaction.

overreaction.

I am gunna make a serious answer to this. When I first toyed with the idea of getting a road bike I knew I wanted it SS (after riding that on MTB). I posted up a pic of a Bianchi Pista on a mate's forum and immediately got labelled a 'Williamsberg Hipster Cunt' by a New York dwelling mate. I didn't have a clue and think googling it found me this forum ('What is a Hipster' thread, and the Hipster Olympics YouTube vid). I since bought a fixed bike, and have hung out here, met some riders, ridden my bike, read fixed mag, watched a load of vids and have come to this conclusion:

There is no hipster. They're a fucking myth, just a reactionary term to slag off a group of disparate people

There most certainly are hipsters! Take a stroll through Hoxton/Shoreditch (or Williamsburg Brklyn) and they're all around. The guys and girls with asymmetrical haircuts and quasi-80s fashion (but are really too young to remember much of the 80s).

There are other types of hipsters, too. I suppose I qualify, to be honest. But I'm a relic from a bygone hipster age... a 'recovering' hipster, if you will. As much as I like to think otherwise, I have a feeling that if I were 10 or so years younger, I'd look like I stepped right off the pages of Vice Magazine.

There most certainly are hipsters! Take a stroll through Hoxton/Shoreditch (or Williamsburg Brklyn) and they're all around. The guys and girls with asymmetrical haircuts and quasi-80s fashion (but are really too young to remember much of the 80s).

And the problem with this is? What are they doing wrong?

Come on, he sounds French which is surely a good thing?
And I still don't understand the 'mass' part of 'mass hipster'?

Paul-Michel sounds like a hairdresser to me.

much as I love to take the piss, I don't give a toss about who's a hipster and who isn't, and who wants to be one but doesn't want to be called one ..blah blah ad nauseum. Nearly all the people I've met from this site are decent folk.

But I do think the rolling one trouser leg up is a bit silly if you don't roll it back down when you're off the bike, sitting in the pub for 4 hours with it still rolled up. but then of course, rolling up both sides or none at all doesn't send out the message that you arrived by bike. (don't make excuses of forgetting, or not caring, you fucking do, you love it you slag)
Reminds me of the desperate wankers on building sites when I was 17, who used to wear their hardhats on the bus, in the car or in the pub, because they just couldn't let go.

same for the cut down bars, or riding holding round the stem because you have track drops far too low to be any use, and a myriad of other hipster traits, it doesn't look cool or different, to any other cyclist it looks fucking stupid, so don't complain when you get laughed at. Much the same as a fluoro-bibbed commuter with helmet, reflectors and a hybrid would get laughed at if he turned up at the foundry. Don't deny it, everyone thinks they're better than someone else for whatever reason and I just wonder if people are becoming a little too self concsious for thier own good.

go ahead, argue the toss till the cows come home, I'm done with it and I'm better than you.

+1

I love to drink my own piss. Nearly all the people I've met from this site want to drink it too.

But I do think pissing on one trouser leg is a bit silly if you don't squeeze it out and have a good slurp when you're off the bike. But then of course, rolling up both sides or none at all doesn't send out the message that you've wet yourself. (don't make excuses of forgetting, or not caring, you fucking do, you love it you slag)
Reminds me of the desperate wanks I had on building sites when I was 17. I got so turned on by the hardhats on the bus, in the car or in the pub, in the end I couldn't let go of my todger.

same for the cut down bars, they give me the horn, make me hold myself round my stem. And a myriad of other hipster traits have led to me abusing myself in public; it doesn't look cool or different, to any other cyclist it looks fucking stupid, so don't complain when you get laughed at. Much the same as a fluoro-bibbed commuter with helmet, reflectors and a hybrid would get all the boys if he turned up at the foundry. Don't deny it, everyone pisses on themselves and jerks off over bricklayers for whatever reason and I just wonder if people are becoming a little too self concsious for thier own good.

go ahead, toss till the cows come home, I'm done with it and I'm better than you.

One of the bravest, most honest posts I've ever read. Shocking, but brave.

RPM is a hipster.

haha will, you filthy cunt.

although you're going to have to find something better than just re-writing people's posts soon

RPM is a hipster.

I will be if you want, just for you.

I thought you'd approve. :P

I am just happy to see people on bikes. If being trendy helps them, jolly good.

Mind you, it is enjoyable to take the mickey out of hipsters and Brompton riders.

I love the way this forum gets its knickers in a twist over two particular issues:

1. Hipsters
   
2. Rapha
   
   

Very amusing... :)

I love the way this forum gets its knickers in a twist over two particular issues:

1. Hipsters
   
2. Rapha
   
   
   
   

1. Everything else.
   

1. car threads
   
2. people taking the piss
   

Paul-Michel sounds like a hairdresser to me.

Big-time.

1. People making lists.
   

1. People making lists that aren't really lists since the posts only contain a single item which is not really a list is it? Submissions to auntytwat@bbc.co.uk
   

I wanted to make a list but I was trying to save pixels.

I got mesured for a suit the other day and told I had unusually long arms. This is the first time I'd ever been told this and it hurt.

I don't think pointing out peoples flaws (legs of E.T. on asm) is very nice.

; )

Id be proud if someone told me I had something unusual big about my anatomy, id go try find out what sports it might be good for.

Short legs I imagine is good for climbing, less dead weight + long arm reach.

And really having long arms like yourself is something many a competitive swimmer would kill for.

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html