The london trick beef? a.k.a 5th Floor Fixie Crew Implosion

"...a stolen baseball bat.."

...Without Spilling His Liquid Bomb.

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genuine lols

Best troll friday ever.

this is a bit like that telescopictext.com thing that someone posted yesterday.

Nhatt

Nhatt's the one!

I don't think the other 'explanations' of fixed trick riding are altogether fair. I think that apart from it being fun (shock, horror), the appeal lies in the fact that it's a kind of acrobatics on bikes. Not everyone is naturally into 'traditional' applications of cycling, e.g. long-distance riding or road racing. Some people are naturally more interested in performing acrobatically. It broadens out the appeal of cycling.

Sorry, I didn't phrase it properly. I wasn't really asking what they were doing, I was wondering why what they were doing was so unbelievably shit.

Maybe I'm coming at this from the wrong angle, but I find street BMX to be really engaging. It makes fixed trick riding look like poop.

tricks on a track bike will always be the poor cousin of BMX.

Flatland BMX is fookin' awesome btw. With a big bike it just looks a bit stupid.

Sorry, I didn't phrase it properly. I wasn't really asking what they were doing, I was wondering why what they were doing was so unbelievably shit.

Maybe I'm coming at this from the wrong angle, but I find street BMX to be really engaging. It makes fixed trick riding look like poop.

That's been discusssed to death. Again, see the positive side. A full-size fixed bike may not be as good for tricks as a smaller bike, but it's a better compromise between covering distance and acrobatics.

Obviously, in acrobatics the skill depends on the rider and not the bike, and if you give an acrobat a larger bike they will naturally be more restricted by its greater rigidity, e.g. when it comes to turning quickly.

I don't think that fixed tricks are 'unbelievably shit'. A bit over-hyped, for sure, but good fun and for many people the closest they will get to artistic cycling--did you look at that thread? Those are fixed tricks, too, but I rather doubt that anyone would call them inferior to BMX tricks. It's just that they're very hard to learn (as I said, on the Continent there's a serious organised sports scene around it). I think the current fashion for fixed tricks thrusts into the vacuum created by the absence of that sport from these shores.

(Someone told me recently, at the Minidrome event, that Chris Akrigg, the winner, had apparently said that he preferred fixed tricks to BMX and trials riding now--is that true? http://www.lfgss.com/thread28000.html)

you all should be happy that people actually ride bikes, no matter what kind of bikes, and all that "this bike (scene) sucks caus its trendy/pasee" makes me wanna puke in my mouth.

being happy that people are riding bikes does not preclude me from taking the piss if people are taking themselves too seriously.

/clicks fingers in a Z shape whilst pouting and standing beside wibble.

mmmm mmmm!

It's a good look for you catfood;-)

being happy that people are riding bikes does not preclude me from taking the piss if people are taking themselves too seriously.

You take yourself too seriously. ;)

waits for invitation to meet about buying a bike

cartons?

i like it!

/ninja'd... like a boss

@Oli - I reserve such invitations for when people say nasty things about my wife.

most of yous take everything over here too seriously/personal thats why i only read the classifieds everyday.

and i really dont know why theres so much of the "good" old "the only trick on a track bike blah blah..." over here, its the trick section of the forum, do the trick dudes post shit over at the track bike part of the forum? what would freud say about that?

its kinda entertaining thou

If he was zipped off his tits on coke, he'd probably say "I really fancy my mother"

Who cares what freud would say and who cares where you post of the forum?

its kinda entertaining thou

yea verilly.

most of yous take everything over here too seriously/personal thats why i only read the classifieds everyday.

No, the people that take themselves too seriously get offended and flounce.

oh man you're all so awesome, i think i'm gonna sell all of my track bikes and my fgfs bike cause i dont deserve them!

what?

Who cares what freud would say and who cares where you post of the forum?

my point was - i really dont see any fgfs dudes posting shit in the track forums but ive even seen stupid comments under fgfs classifieds and i really dont get it why?