Being laughed at riding fixed?

it took me 20 mins to get with the program when i got my fix (only a few weeks ago) was normal on the second day of riding. got on the ss mtb at at the weekend which was really weird, legs kept rocking backwards and forwards trying to slow down.
riding with a freewheel on the road is like sucking a boiled sweet with the wrapper on.

dunno, I've only ridden mtb and bmx along the road with freewheels

compared to a road fixed it's like havin' a bath with yer socks on

Well I am 46 and just started ridng fixed and yep fell off to start with love it now although not done the commute to work yet as couple of decent hils to go up and dont have guts yet
and yep think the fixie thing is spreading to the country side now and oh yep ws at local skate park which help with looking after this lad comes up says is that fixed i reply yep sure is his answer cool.......... smiled all day the old git is cool

"compared to a road fixed it's like havin' a bath with yer socks on"

i still feel its more like having sex with a condom on for me.....
safer but not as much fun.

Random bump, as there's a revivalist thing happening round here.

I got wiped out by a Transit Connect van, and as i lay in the road - winded (somehow i landed flat on my back) the fat freak "oozed" his way out from behind the wheel - and began to give me shit about riding a stick thin - piece of shit, with no capability to watch where i'm riding...
The rozzers turned up, and it transpired that the homer simpson looking muthafunksta had no left hand wing mirror, and got fucked over for driving like a lunatic (thanks to a few witnesses) - hence why i have money to spend!! Insurance payouts are sweeeeeeeeeeet!

Random bump, as there's a revivalist thing happening round here.

WTF is going on...

I got wiped out by a Transit Connect van, and as i lay in the road - winded (somehow i landed flat on my back) the fat freak "oozed" his way out from behind the wheel - and began to give me shit about riding a stick thin - piece of shit, with no capability to watch where i'm riding...
The rozzers turned up, and it transpired that the homer simpson looking muthafunksta had no left hand wing mirror, and got fucked over for driving like a lunatic (thanks to a few witnesses) - hence why i have money to spend!! Insurance payouts are sweeeeeeeeeeet!

Nice one pistaboy79, :D

Good to hear a cool outcome to these things.

Now go get spendin'

I got wiped out by a Transit Connect van, and as i lay in the road - winded (somehow i landed flat on my back) the fat freak "oozed" his way out from behind the wheel - and began to give me shit about riding a stick thin - piece of shit, with no capability to watch where i'm riding...
The rozzers turned up, and it transpired that the homer simpson looking muthafunksta had no left hand wing mirror, and got fucked over for driving like a lunatic (thanks to a few witnesses) - hence why i have money to spend!! Insurance payouts are sweeeeeeeeeeet!

giving any of it away?

and glad ur ok !

Kill them all!!!

Some old geezer outside my lbs, after walking around the bike and checking it out fully, pointed at my back wheel and said 'Huh, no gears?' My response was that the only gears you need are your legs. At this he just smiled and walked off.

Somehow I don't think I converted him, and he probably thinks I'm a bit silly and should go and buy a proper bike!

or it could have been...

"Not another hipster twat on a Bianchi Pista!"

Got called a gaylord by a whitevan passenger, thought about getting offended and then realised that not only was I riding a shiny new bike that wasn't a mountain bike, but was also sporting some tight jeans, low v-cut T-shirt and neon pink tracky top. Fair point.

Random bump, as there's a revivalist thing happening round here.

Conversations with the past.

Let sleeping dogs..

Good Bump

It's a mix. i get stick for cycling from a few drivers; not just fixed, and the odd question on why bits are missing from my bike - more in north london cause of the hills and there are fewer fixed/single speeds.

The most stick i get now is from my lady, the minute i ride away from her she starts shouting out "Hipster" "Do a skid" "FAKE MESSENGER". keeps her amused i spose

I like it when you get old guys commuting on Bromptons roll up, and ask whether you go to Herne Hill, and how they used to ride fixed back in the day.

They're usually really surprised when I explain the frame is relatively new (last year), that yes England still has some small framebuild shops making track bikes.

That stuff makes the crap worth it.

Im live in Birmingham which has very few cyclists, so its a very pleasant surprise that that has happend to me a few times.

Old guys who used to ride track!

i get every comment on my bike lol

Yeh i get that. Took my fixed on a club ride and did 50/60miles on it. Went on a hilly route, a guy on a full carbon geared bike said to me "were going to some hills, your on a fixed i'll tell you what its like to change gear to make it easier"
I went past him and pretty much the rest of the group whilst going up the hills, was faster into a headwind aswell.
They werent laughing then.
I normally get people look at my bike as i ride past spinning, been asked if it was fixed before if they have caught up at traffic lights. Some think its strange that someone on an old 531 frame with one gear can come past them on a geared bike.
Love riding fixed, but when theres long downhills or a tailwind and i'm in a group thats on geared, its hard to keep up with them when they pick the speed up.

@stylist - it kinda blends in no ;)

Im live in Birmingham which has very few cyclists, so its a very pleasant surprise that that has happend to me a few times.

Old guys who used to ride track!

Hey deadly fanny pack - where in Brum you based??????

I got laughed at by a bunch of hipster cunts in spitalfields, all wearing fake spectacles. They called me a scenester for riding 'those trendy bikes'.

It made me feel really sad.

grouchoengers

heh

they don't want to belong to any scene that'll have them as a member

Hey deadly fanny pack - where in Brum you based??????

Moseley.

Moseley.

No shit.
I'm a Digbeth dweller...