What makes a fakenger?

anyone would think couriers invented the fixed gear biycycle :in need of a smiley to convey the raised eyebrow and wry smile: i wonder what track cyclists from the early part of the last century think? they are probably happy to see a resurgence in all things fixed/cycling

i do find it odd that people want to look like a courier with the radio that doesn't work hanging around the duke and saying they work for a company etc, these people are fucked in the head and need proffessional help.
lets face it it's not a glamourous profession, it can be dirty and not that well paid, but it has it's plus points as riding yer bike is good and there is a 'community' rather than just a workforce to belong to. maybe it's this that people lack in their lives and they think buying a langster will help them belong?

for me it's the bikes and the people, being paid to ride or not it should be nothing to do with it.

i was a fakenger before i knew what one was, i was given a creative couriers gilet a couple of years ago but i felt tipped the logo so it didn't show :-)

(bill, i gave it back to it's owner after a while. so i can't give it back to you!)

and whats wrong with langsters?????

they smell funny

haha

"people want to look like a courier with the radio that doesn't work hanging around the duke and saying they work for a company etc"

do people actualy do that??

Buffalo Bill If you listen to NYC messengers, they'll have you believe that they invented the bicycle, never mind bicycle messengering.

A New Yorker once tried to tell me that pizza was invented in NYC, and I think she really believed it. She was thick as shit, mind.

i thought people evolved frist in NYC.

Haha, maybe messengers are a new species and fakengers are desperatly trying to adopt superior phenotypes

gold miners are getting pissed off that everyone is wearing levi's these days...

yeah man, those Levis dungarees are the proper frontier shit!

MrSmith
(bill, i gave it back to it's owner after a while. so i can't give it back to you!)

:-)

I only have one of the shit freestyle red items. I could never find a P Izumi to fit me. Those were nice.

But really Dickies! It's poor quality work-wear made for cents in maquiladores - rubbish. A guy called Blake from Philly was buying up thrift store no-brand poly-cotton pants and selling them for $15. I could see the sense in that.

There's an SF based brand called Ben, Ben... can't remember, but its logo is a gorilla.

Quit knocking them! I've got a pair and I'm not ashamed... I find them pretty comfy.

But admittedly I bought them because I wanted to be way cool.

Hey.. If Dickies™ are good enough for the 2.03 Million people or there abouts behind bars in the US of A (excluding the ladies, I'm assuming) then there good enough the wack-est fakengers in town. I got mine of some miserable bald, naked, Canadian @ the ice rink for a cup of hot chocolate. I saw him coming..

31trum and whats wrong with langsters?????

Seconded!!!

Dickies... I get them for less than a tenner when I'm back in the states. Wear them for work and they last about a year, not bad.

Bill's thinking of Ben Davis.
"Ben Davis Co. is working class chic, the Harley Davidson of coarse clothing. For 60 years, Ben Davis has been inspiring customer loyalty from ditch diggers and hipsters with a line of work clothes still cut from patterns drawn in the 30's."

HA!

BTW what's a fakenger again?

a cyclist with a shoulder bag

RPM a cyclist with a shoulder bag

Phone, email, whisper me about that headset if you still need, I don't have your number.

that was RJM

he has an annoyingly similar name!

Damnit and you're both in design or something similiar too!

trampsparadise Phone, email, whisper me about that head if you still need, I don't have your number.

I always knew you was a ho.

ImOnCrank [quote]trampsparadise Phone, email, whisper me about that head if you still need, I don't have your number.

I always knew you was a ho.[/quote]

I swear baby, it's not what it looks like! It's just talk, I promise!
You know I'd never go round your back except to give you that reacharound.

Fuckin A right. I putcho ass back onna corna where i founya!

MrSmith they smell funny

I'm pretty certain I met you a few months ago (after a CM), and you turned your nose up at my Langster. Git. ;-P

I finally watched that video Jos posted. When he bounces up and down on the bike he looks like one of The Muppets.

I've never understood why Dickies are cool....just because they're American I guess....would we all go to B&Q to buy overalls and gardening gloves thinking they're cool....coz that's what dickies make.

NY dustmen wear Carharrt and we've got a shop in carnaby street selling their caps for £25.....we Londoners really are a bunch of tits aren't we?.......that goes for brand-obsessed label-headed bike obsessivists too.....no better than dumb airheaded Prada junkies.