Dear oh dear mini are in on the act

What the fuck? Unipack??? and £100 more than originally.

Smeear - here's their photo;

Where?

I'm a pr/marketing person that works somewhere with credibility and no, that's not what we do! That's what shit pr people do.

I always wondered what pr people do. Thats it? Hyping up a product with fake "down with the kids" crap?

Is there any particular reason why I only get 'Service Unavailable' when I try to bring up the cooperbikes web-site?

Have they found the forum's coruscating criticism and started to reconsider to avoid a PR disaster?

Oliver, more than likely! especially after I send them a detailed post on their twitter with explanation about the unipack and how it was build poorly etc. and will actually cause them to lose more money than gain some.

Aha, Ed on the case. That explains everything ... :)

On a more positive note, it would be very cool indeed to see them assemble a bike sourced from reputable frame and componentry suppliers.

Hey cooperbikes, if you're reading: UTFS--all you need to know is on here (somewhere). :)

Oliver, more than likely! especially after I send them a detailed post on their twitter with explanation about the unipack and how it was build poorly etc. and will actually cause them to lose more money than gain some.

edscoble, keeper of fixed gear's purity.

Funny, why is UTFS not among the underlined acronyms that you can hover over. Ah well, they'll just have to use the search function to find out what it means. :D

I can't see the fucking photo.

I can't see the fucking photo.

Henry, if you're looking for human pornography on this site, you'll be disappointed.

From http://www.unipackuk.co.uk/track-bikes_roadcourier.html
"Fixed gear track bikes have become affiliated with the streets of New York, but they are the latest influence to arrive from America to the UK."

Ah, so it was those bloody GIs all over the place who made my Dad buy fixed bikes in the late 40s. Or it was the American 'Rock and Roll' which caused him to ride one to work every day from 1965 until he retired in 1990. I'm not usually one to get wound up over this hipster appropriation of fixed as something novel, but seriously, when are these fuckwits going to admit that people have been riding fixed for 100 years without needing to have their choice validated by some dumbass collaboration with a fashion brand, in which class I include Mini and Cooper these days.

old rants, yawn.

this rules!
it kinda feels like cars sales are plummeting so they start making bikes

like this:
bike company starts adding motors= motor bikes + some more wheels = car company
sit back for a few years till imminent climate crisis and global recession and watch the pattern fall back the other way

sorry im not to articulate today

That's true...