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So what you're saying is that he should write an article about whatever, take the money and prepare for a shitstorm of people making the same arguments over and over again.
Nah dude, he should do what the Guardian is best known for at the moment: crowd-sourcing content (well, that and massive tax avoidance). Basically, we write the article, together, and then Ol' Sparky whacks it on the website. It's like Consequences, but with meedja gubbins.
I'll start:
*There's a new craze sweeping London... one which every other newspaper has covered to death. *
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I tell you what let me sum it up for you
Riding a fixed gear with no front brake is moronic
(yes that means you are a moron and or retarded (unlike your speed(mmm nested brackets ftw)) if you fide fixed without a front brake)
Also it's against the law (added that just so you can call me a cunt and tell me where bikeradar is)
amirite?
/end thread
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A year or two ago, it was impossible to pick up a newspaper without reading of the latest trends in cycling. Brick Lane and Shoreditch appeared to be awash with fixed gear bicycles riden by earnest young men with skinny jeans, spectacles and ironic facial hair. No so today. The Shoreditch trendies have found other ways to state their modernity. Yet, fixed gear bicycles can still be seen among the blue Boris Bikes that are now clogging our capital's arteries.
Who are riding these remnants of a trend? The less cool but more persistent residents of the cheaper parts of London. As the hipsters moved on, they e-bayed their brakeless "steeds" and a new generation started to ride them. Today balding and slightly overweight men are donning courier-chic clothing and riding through red lights in the paths worn by the modish riders of last year.
And they are doing so brakeless, risking life and limb - their own and those of pedestrians and other road users in the process....ad nauseam
Does that help you?
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I tell you what let me sum it up for you
Riding a fixed gear with no front brake is moronic
(yes that means you are a moron and or retarded (unlike your speed(mmm nested brackets ftw)) if you fide fixed without a front brake)
Also it's against the law (added that just so you can call me a cunt and tell me where bikeradar is)
amirite?
/end thread
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if you put your preconceptions aside, approach it with a humble attitude and healthy dose of self preservation you could just find its one of the freeist experiences in this mad city. i ride brakeless because i actually find it safer this way. I ride like a twat with a brake on but I cant exactly explain why....im not saying its for everyone but you know, live and let live.... -
anyone got that video of the dutch fixie rider skid stopping in the rain and nearly being ran over?
that video cracks me up.idiots riding track bikes with no brakes in urban traffic will eventually fuck themselves up. i just want to stay well away from them. i was nearly killed by one of them on my last lfgss group ride.
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Let me try.
Is it because you are a twat?
Just asking...
actually i think i might be...
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you know what gets me is the holier than thou attitude, of both sides of this argument. So you don't ride brakeless, so you do ride brakeless, who fucking cares as long as you control your bike and aren't endangering anyone else. Get the fuck over yourselves!
Seriously.No really SERIOUSLY!!!!
Ride your bikes enjoy them and stop thinking riding one way or another makes you a better rider than the other. Learn as much as you can about your own level of bike handling and work within that.
Tired of the incessant infighting, as stated previously ride your bike, control it, and don't endanger anyone, yourself included, if you do, be ready to accept the consequences, and take responsibility for your action or inaction...
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idiots riding track bikes with no brakes in urban traffic will eventually fuck themselves up. i just want to stay well away from them. i was nearly killed by one of them on my last lfgss group ride.
No, that was because someone decided to fish-tail in a group of riders. I've been riding a brakeless track bike for a good few months now and havn't killed anyone, or even myself. And no I don't ride slow, and yes I use it for everything, commuting and longer rides.
I attached a brake for this last weekend but it's coming off again as I need the lever for another bike. -
you know what gets me is the holier than thou attitude, of both sides of this argument. So you don't ride brakeless, so you do ride brakeless, who fucking cares as long as you control your bike and aren't endangering anyone else. Get the fuck over yourselves!
Seriously.No really SERIOUSLY!!!!
Ride your bikes enjoy them and stop thinking riding one way or another makes you a better rider than the other. Learn as much as you can about your own level of bike handling and work within that.
Tired of the incessant infighting, as stated previously ride your bike, control it, and don't endanger anyone, yourself included, if you do, be ready to accept the consequences, and take responsibility for your action or inaction...
hence why i have to ride significantly slower when brake failed
for me this is not how i wish to ride my bike
i can seen why some people like to go slowly but i'd rather not
also have heard accounts of chains failing, have had two brake cables snap on me (at different times) as such having 2 brakes (fixed drive train and front brake) makes most sense to me
however many of my friends ride brakeless and some of them ride very well, generally i am ambivalent about this if people have decent bike skills, but that is the same for people on any type of bike
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I've just discovered putting an effervescent orange vitamin c tablet in the can of diet fanta I bought by accident to make it taste better results in massive spillage, a damp leg and another sticky patch on the carpet.
It does make the remaining half can of juice taste marginally better though.
I'm still trying to weigh up the pros and cons of my actions to decide whether the ends justified the means and if there was any way in which I could avoided such vitriolic backlash from my beverage, not to mention what could have happened should said juice have landed on the transformer for my laptop adjacent.
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