Fixie culture in the bigger context... a discussion.

@Edward z
"The 1960s mod was nothing more than a working class marketing strategy defined through mass media"
not convinced on that^^

mods were all that, as a youth cult movement they had more effect on present day culture than any other.

And I always thought that it was Plato and his school...

whatever happened to the rockers though?

Between Sturgis and 1%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Kids

*Der Boy, das Girl, sie lieben Hot
Und meiden die Meute stupider HJ.
Geh'n sie spazieren auf leisestem Krepp,
Erglänzt sie am Bein, er am Jackett.
Marschiert voran, Hot, Jazz und Swing.
Come on boy and girl, wir gehen zum Ding.
Zum Fest der Gerechtigkeit komm und spring.

Und tritt General HJ einst gegen uns an
Dann werden wir hotten Mann für Mann.
Der eine am Baß, der andre am Kamm.
Noch sind wir nicht viele genug.
Doch einst wird es wahr, was bisher nur Spuk.
Wir werden siegen, da gibt's keinen Muck!*

Translated by google (I'm lazy)

The boy, the girl, they love hot
And avoid the mindless mob HJ.
Geh'n they walk on softest crepe,
It shines in the leg, he at the jacket.
Marches forward, hot, jazz and swing.
Come on boy and girl, we go to the thing.
Come to the feast of justice and spring.

And General HJ occurs once against us
Then we will hotten man for man
The one on the bass guitar, the other on the ridge.
We are not many enough.
But once it is true, as far only spook.
We will win, because there's no muck!

Note: HJ refers above to the Hitler Youth-- the Nazis themselves as well defined youth movement with their own fashion, music and ...

its called 'fixed gear', not 'fixies'

EdwardZ you do like to be Mr Telling People What's What dontcha? So 'Mod' didn't happen in the 60s? That's a new one on me.

^Fixed wheel.

I actually think fixie as a term has come out the other side of being naff, and is now acceptable.

I'd rather ride a fixie than be a 'roadie' uuurgh shudder

Think you're too good to load a few amps into a van, do you?

i'd rather ride a fixie than be a 'roadie' uuurgh shudder

+10000000000000

Think you're too good to load a few amps into a van, do you?

No! But too weak.

EdwardZ you do like to be Mr Telling People What's What dontcha?

Its about...

So 'Mod' didn't happen in the 60s? That's a new one on me.

Really depends upon the semantics for "mod" and "happen". A marketing and media campaign talking about "mods" clearly did exist in the 1960s but these "mods" I would suggest were more a product of British private TV and the blvd press than anything else. Mods were more or less defined by "RSG" rather than "RSG" reporting on mods... just as in the US TV shows such as "The Monkees", "Bat Man" and, later, "Mod Squad" worked to exploit the effects of mass media to co-opt "youth culture". The "Monkees" is an interesting case in point as the casting and script concept built heavily upon market research. Plots and even the characters were explored and developed in a screening lab ("Preview House" on Sunset Blvd) using kids to rate an evolving pilot in realtime.
But we were, I think, talking about the origin of the London "Mod asethetic" as political fashion and this is clearly Germany in the 1930s through East London in the 1950s. The origin, in turn, of the 1930s "Swing Kid" aesthetic was a German take on precieved British fashion..
Curiously.. thinking of what the most iconic "mod film" of the 1960s.. and I came to think of Antonioni's "Blow Up".. a film more about seeing.....

its pronounced 'fixaaaay', not 'fixie'

ftfy

its Beau Brummell, not Bo Brummell.

I've generally got no time for those who say something is over

It's true, saying something is over is so over.

I remember that like it was yesterday.

I yesterday that like it was remember.