Fixie Fashion Fad Finally Finished

You took me there you homo
you're the one with carbon wheels.

Oi cunty! What you trying to say, I've got a retro Casio :-)

I'm trying to think of a polite way to say it. Maybe the best thing to say is that you bring a little bit of east london to south london. But it's ok because you haven't got an asymmetric haircut and the arrogant look that only 20 year old art students can pull off.

he hasn't got any fucking hair.
graham - you are a hipster. face the facts.

Its over?

Shit.
I have three bikes for sale then...

he hasn't got any fucking hair.
graham - you are a hipster. face the facts.

Yeah he has, he's got da 12k weave innit:

Of course this leaves single speeders in a quagmire.

I'm not sure it does, you know. I spend a while getting my other half's old MTB shifting smoothly only to realise that she pretty much never, ever, changes gear. I think this goes for a vast number of slowish, shortish-distance commuters. Certainly it's absolutely the standard practice in Cambridge where I grew up - every bugger rides, but a spot-check of bikes would reveal a lot of unused shift levers. SS is just a nice, efficient way of getting that simplicity without lugging a bunch of delicate shifting equipment about to no purpose.

I actually read this article in the paper. I say read, I mean I read about a 1/3 and gave up. A half burnt croissant and a lukewarm mug of tea was much more interesting.

those ITK know that the fixie skidders have all moved to Paris

Welcome to the future.

Have I missed something?

well if you haven't purchased a brightly coloured fixie yet you have just missed the slow twiddley boat to hipster nirvana that's meandering across the sea of materialism, soon to be dashed against the iceberg of reason that's lurking in turgid waters.

buy a segway or one of those little electric cars.

well if you haven't purchased a brightly coloured fixie yet you have just missed the slow twiddley boat to hipster nirvana that's meandering across the sea of materialism, soon to be dashed against the iceberg of reason that's lurking in turgid waters.

buy a segway or one of those little electric cars.
I heard that quad skates and rollerblades are going to become the new big thing (again). Hyde Park will become the new howton. Picnics will become the new barbeques. Mark my words there will be dodgy champaign addicts selling stolen wheels on Edgware road by this time next month.

Of course this leaves single speeders in a quagmire.

it leaves them where they already are, wallowing in the narcissistic mire of incredulous stupidity that is the "front brake only, with little finger lever", or desperately hanging on to the last vestiges of reason as they debate the point of their freewheeling journey to an oblivion even more predictable and fear-inducing than just another day at the office.

No longer will clown bikes be seen twiddling down the city streets

lol... what those horrible multi coloured yokes

Your not alone. I attempted to read one of his books but found myself looking words up in a dictionary every couple of sentences.

In that case read The Book of Dave - in which Self has included a dictionary at the back of the book ;)

As far as I know, Will Self bought his fixed gear from Brixton Cycles some time before they became trendy. He wrote this article in May 2006 http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/will_self/article571523.ece which by my reckoning is around a year before this forum started. So him riding fixed foreshadows fixed gears being trendy, rather than showing that they're not trendy any more.

I know this is kinda pointlessly pedantic, but I like Will Self's writing and quite like the fact that he's written one of the few interesting articles about fixed gears. Plus he lives in Brixton which is another point in his favour.
sorry i couldn't read past "I yearn for a fixed-wheel bicycle"... twat. its not the same will from hubjub is it... hes lovely

bugger.. just heard the news. I really like riding my bike aswell... nevermind.

hold on. whats going to happen to this forum?
'london fat-girls-seeking-sex'? ....winner (i originally typed fit)

buy a segway or one of those little electric cars.

I would love to have a go on a segway.

bugger.. just heard the news. I really like riding my bike aswell... nevermind.

hold on. whats going to happen to this forum?
'london fat-girls-seeking-sex'? ....winner (i originally typed fit)

Sweet! I won't even have to find a new forum

(er.. j/k)

you have PM
:desperate:

(a joke)

lolz@ killing the thread

I've had too much coffee again

You joke, but the very wiff of a available woman will send Dale wild, better brace yourself for for an attack of love from Dr Balls

i believe theres already too much romancing in grobag towers

Bromancing more like...

The article smacks of "I started riding ages ago, now all the kids are into it, it's not cool anymore".
And I agree ;-)

p.s. Will Self is a legend. I'd love to get a portrait of him with his bike.

a lot of the forum is made up of people with no 'cool' factor whatsoever, no matter what bike they're riding, and plenty of those people were already riding fixed when the forum started. The fact that young 'cool' people have been noticed riding fixed gear over the last couple of years is only because journalists would like to think they know where it's at and look to young, cool people to see what they're doing. They haven't noticed that loads of people have started riding fixed gear over the last few years anyway. It's true that it's snowballed recently and the bikes have become showier.. and so the fixed gear "fad" as it has been identified by journalists is about the aesthetics and being into the aesthetics, rather than the transmission, which in fact is an integral part of its appeal. When the cool bikes have become laughable (and a lot of people already think aerospokes and even lo-pros have had their day, for example) loads of people will still never go back to a freewheel, whether they're cool or not.

Not sure why the journalist is giving so much of a shit. Bet he's on here too..

He is.
He rides fixed.
He's coming to a thread near you.