Another bmxer crying over people riding other bikes!

Some people just need to get on with riding their bikes instead of bitching about all the other cyclists all the time!

http://thecomeupbmx.net/news/guest-blog-why-fixed-gears-suck

I still LOL'ed though :p

and another little gem from the same dude haha, this is a lot funnier:

http://thecomeupbmx.net/features/why-i-dont-like-anything-besides-bmx

One of my favourite quotes:

"The only thing I can compare fixed gear freestyle to is a cat rapist. I don’t know if cat rapists really exist, but that is probably one of my gravest fears.That one day I will come home from riding and someone will have torn Tony’s asshole to shreds leaving him a shell of his former self. I don’t know if that really happens. I mean it shouldn’t, but it definitely could. "

A lot of pent-up aggression going on there. Well, I guess better out than in.

A lot of pent-up aggression going on there. Well, I guess better out than in.

Thats what the cat-rapist said, although it might have been "better in than out", or "in and out", or "in out..in out....shake it all about".....i'm not sure.

I like the bit about writing YOU'RE GAY, changing the font to Impact and making it really big, and teal.

I have to say the guy's got a point. Barspins are gay. Unless you're 18feet out of massive bowl-pipe thingy. On a suitable bicycle.

In fact, the other day I say someone riding with NO HANDLEBARS. He was holding his stem in a fist like a freakin joystick at an arcade and steering through traffic.

Might give that a go on my way home.

... BMX's are functional? I assume this "Rad Dood" rocks upto the skatepark in his Tahoe with his bike in the back 'cause he certainly wouldn't call a BMX functional if he rode more than a mile or two on it?

Functional for 180-ing around over hips, yes. Read the piece. He's saying Do tricks on a suitable bicycle. Actually Crazy James' tricky bike is pretty dope. Eminently suitable for hammering around. Just don't do it on a chrome-ended Gazelle from 1981 riding 32hole Open Pros, that's all.

Functional for 180-ing around over hips, yes. Read the piece. He's saying Do tricks on a suitable bicycle. Actually Crazy James' tricky bike is pretty dope. Eminently suitable for hammering around. Just don't do it on a chrome-ended Gazelle from 1981 riding 32hole Open Pros, that's all.

Was pretty dope, all gone now!
I do kinda miss it, but then again it was to fund the completion of another type of bike hated by the author of said cat-rapist humour, a 24 inch street mtb (complete with freecoaster hub) SHOCK HORROR!

Hmmmm I do kinda miss my fixed, but I miss doing bigger bmxy type shit more, bring on the 24 :p

Yeah true, didn't actually bother reading the muck he'd written on that blog... Bikes are great though, every bike in its own way is great... No need to be hating

Yeah I mean its just really sad, I love all bikes, everything from road bikes to mtbs, to track bikes, to bmxes.
But so many people get up their own arses about the types of bike they ride its ridiculous, at they end of the day, they all have two wheels, they all have cranks, and they all have pedals.
As Corny often says, hate the hate, and just get on with enjoying your bike/bikes and your time on them.
I will make a return to the world of 700C goodness, but probably in the form of singlespeed and with a couple of decent brakes I think, sooner rather than later I think, as i'm getting lazier in my old age, my only brakless bike these days will be one of the 24 inch machines.

a bmxer calling other bike trends fashionable? pot. kettle. black?

it ain't just fucking slambars, its tight jeans, micro gears, cassette hubs, odyssey stems, checked shirts, swept hair, those hats with brim.

christ.

just admit it guys. it's a huge social phenomenon. Many of you have watched it happen over the past 6 years, as I have. I don't care, and in fact i love it. Keeps us healthy. Keeps us agile and mobile. Good for community. Makes so much sense in the city. And it IS stylish. I fucking love style. All great!!! But I have to laugh though when i see tricks on 700c bikes though. Much like i laugh when i blow by some dude on a BMX spinning down the main drag miles from anywhere. It's just a complete joke. It's like humping in the front seat of a car. Never really works.

pick the right tool for the job. I'm not going to ski pow in my volkl GS skis. I'm not going to rip corduroy in my moment donner partys.

It is just like some skaters used to be with BMX. Some people just cant see out of there own little world.

I did'nt know fixie riding is a trend.I'm really out of touch living in suburbia.Mind you,i do like the sound of being called a "fixie drone".

adam22 is a saint!

bmx is for whiggers

gay for life and death before dishonour

You know i have a feeling in 10 years we will look back and realise that Freestyling on a fixed gear was the Snakeboarding of the late 90's.

Having said that i do like the inovations that spring from it, and a lot of the bikes are pretty rad that have been born out of the needs of these guys. I also applaud anyone for pushing something into new areas, just there's a limit to the point in it for me personally.

I dont mind all the flat land kind of tricks, but the jumping and skateparkriding, well i just cant see the point. If i go in the park, i want to catch some air, and that just isn't going to happen on a fixed gear, no matter how good people get. I was watching the Holdfast promo, and was thinking, shit, why are you so stoked about getting the same amount of air a 10 year old could get on a halfords BMX ? Hit that up on a jump bike for a real stoke.

What i would really like to see is the flow of fast urban fixed riding, with some manuals/skids thrown in on some cool features along the route - pissing around in a skate park is all a bit far away from what fixed is all about for me.

Yeah I mean its just really sad, I love all bikes, everything from road bikes to mtbs, to track bikes, to bmxes.
But so many people get up their own arses about the types of bike they ride its ridiculous, at they end of the day, they all have two wheels, they all have cranks, they all have pedals and they all have bars.

hm?