Stepper - 'cause even your granny's got a fixie... WAC

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Piss drinking bars instead of beers
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mate, it got a back brake doesn't it?

I regularly pass someone commuting over Waterloo Bridge on one of these. Judging by the noise it makes, the components aren't top notch. In fact, it looks a lot like the kind of heavy, cheap "mountain" bike you can get for under a ton at Halfords. With steppers on.

I may be proved wrong in the next six months but I've a feeling no-one cool is going to be seen dead on one of those.

If they are then I will happily concede I have got old and have no clue about what's cool any more.

I agree. As a 21 year old slutty* hipster** living in shoreditch, I am pretty confidant that cool/trendy/hip people won't buy these. They are innately un-cool. I think the only feasible market would be 30 somethings that are attempting coolness. It happens that the only people I have seen riding these fall into that category.

*Not really slutty, been monogamous for 4 years.
**Not that hip either.

Why are there so many haters here? New product (ok shit marketing dept) but ^^^^^^^^ really?

I'm guessing all this comes down to the sudden realisation that most of us are now in a different marketing bracket?

Soon to appear in the Olympics, representing South Africa?

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Friar Tuck does bear a striking resemblance to a 6 foot penis.

Sadly, I am EXACTLY the market they're trying to shift this product towards, and I still think it's fucking crap. Not amount of piss poor graphic design and web 2.0 resources are disguising a shit product.
It looks cumbersome, ungainly, heavy, probably quite difficult to maintain and fucking appauling to use as transport. Product fail, marketing fail, probably market research fail too.

Now GTFO of my fixie-skidder forum.

yeah I gotta say. I thought that was a Tranny when I first saw that. I mean WTF!

Im sure he's a lovely chap.

Why are there so many haters here? New product (ok shit marketing dept) but ^^^^^^^^ really?

I'm guessing all this comes down to the sudden realisation that most of us are now in a different marketing bracket?

the answer may be in your post.
the idea that readers here are "in a different marketing bracket".
Suggests that humans arent communicating, feeling, intelligent souls, rather just figures waiting to be sold shit.
But wait, these words are handed down from the high priest Hicks and others.
And Im just an internet mofo.

we are just way cooler than anyone who rides these

"in a different marketing bracket". we are in the top bracket now everybody loves fixed gear riding polo playing beer swilling rolla riding herne hill crunching fixie riders

Oh, and I had a haircut like that for a while. It's only that awful if you look like a Dominican friar with a masturbation problem like that guy.

They're very wired for sound:

They are very Monorail!

*that is a man apparently

Is this proof that Michael Jackson is not actually dead, but hiding out of New Cross?

That moustache is well phoney Oh King of Pop.

I'd love a Segway... What's the beef, you bozos?

there's nowt wrong with segways per se, just that they epitomise everything that is wrong with, well, everything.

I can see them being hired out for usage in big parks.

They are not that stupid (spacehopers, C5s, pogo sticks) it will fail for a few simple reasons - it's too bulky for londons roads/storage in flats, you can't do distance or speed and not enough people will ride them to be able to share/develop the product further.

Personally i thought those metal scooters and roller blades where shit designs but they have lived on

Sinclair C5! now you're talking.

makes every fitness first in town a potential venue for stepperpolluza 2010

my favourite thing about these is that there is a shop in new cross that sells these bad boys, and NOTHING else, probably one fo the best/most risky business models ever.

i used pass that shop a good few times each day and can think of 2 other ways the model is flawed;

Firstly, to open a pop-up shop selling a niche product, that relies on moving high cost novelty units in new cross (during the summer when the rich students have gone home) is a location fail.

Secondly, to only open 'when-you-feel-like-it' is a poor display of business commitment.

I for one do not like anything about stepper bikes, but i'll chip in some cash to get Rosie to do the Dunwich Dynamo 2010 there and back on a stepper.

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She can borrow mine.

Sinclair C5! now you're talking.

I had one of those for 2 weeks, i swapped it got a go-kart, the battery was utter crap but it drove well. the kid who sold it came for it back (turned out it was his Dads and he wasn't supposed to swap it) we had already given it a custom paint job by the time it went back

they have a C5 day up country some place.. all the owners get together and celebrate the design classic. i'd love to go just for the photos!

i used pass that shop a good few times each day and can think of 2 other ways the model is flawed;

Firstly, to open a pop-up shop selling a niche product, that relies on moving high cost novelty units in new cross (during the summer when the rich students have gone home) is a location fail.

Secondly, to only open 'when-you-feel-like-it' is a poor display of business commitment.

I for one do not like anything about stepper bikes, but i'll chip in some cash to get Rosie to do the Dunwich Dynamo 2010 there and back on a stepper.

1) Charco Darko £5

You know the quality is poor with all the points raised above - and the design would mean you have to apply a fair bit of force to wratchet the speed up!