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BÖIKZMÖIND - A Fixed Gear Bike is... on Vimeo
I know some of them, decent riders. Who is the maker?
jake (the kid) and his dad are both great guys, jake's so enthusiastic and his dad is ridiculously strong , his calves rival even xanders.
the guy in the shop who says "its basically a unicycle" can
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I did the hill climb in Bath that was filmed for this. It was absolutely brutal and the guy that won ("It's just a bike... with a lot of mythology attached to it") is massively strong - he isn't fast by forum standards, or scene standards, he's fast at club level. He's also not very "cool".
That said, while I'm sure that many of the people involved in Boikzmoind fall within hipster stereotypes to some degree or another (cough Francois cough), I know that I can see parts of myself in pretty much every year of the hipster time line yet I believe (rightly or wrongly) that I'm not exactly a hipster. I'm probably wrong though, as denying being a hipster is the first sign of being a hipster.
I'd say that - on average - the people in Boikzmoind are no more or less hipster-ish than the people posting in this threat.
Except Prancer, who isn't a hipster. Just a cunt.
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am i in the film? in which case it must be awesome 531 bizniz
if not, its all about cunty hipsters
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Good old PJ [he was on this forum when you lot wouldn't have known about it]
"it's just a bike"
we miss ya PJ!!
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Cunts! Awful from the start. If i hear one more person talk about the simplicity of the maintenance-free 'fixie' I'm gonna stab someone.
"a *F*ixed gear bike is a very rudimentary machine that moves with the person as you're riding it".
Fuck's sake.
The trailer's not aimed at self loathing, ex-hipster cynics like yourself. Move on.
Yeah, fair play, that was a pretty stupid and OTT summary by me. Sorry, I was battered. I watched the rest of the trailer and it looks really made made, so credit for that. BUT, the usual cliches about how you're literally connected to the bike or how you* move along as the bike moves* smacks of the usual internet-enabled stylised guff. Anyway, I bet the full thing is better than a series of soundbites and, as you say, it isn't meant for knobs like me. I spend a short while in Bristol last week and thought it was an ace town. Gotta love that bridge.
As an aside, the idea that fixed wheel bikes are maintenance-free always cracks me up, given that they're actually very high maintenance when you include having to learn about what is and isn't cool, choosing hats, posting spurious drivel on forums, changing your parts every five mintues etc etc. It clearly isn't about getting out on a bike and the easiest, quickest, cheapest way possible just because you want to feel connected to the road, it's about being part of a big trend that everyone's really into, that's actually a lot of fun. There's way too much pseudo-philosophical naval-gazing involved in trying to justify it.
As for "self-loathing, ex-hipster cynic", is the ex implying that I'm somehow past it? Bastard.
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What happened to PJ by the way, wasn't he outlawed or something?!
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As an aside, the idea that fixed wheel bikes are maintenance-free always cracks me up, given that they're actually very high maintenance when you include having to learn about what is and isn't cool, choosing hats, posting spurious drivel on forums, changing your parts every five mintues etc etc.
Know any good moustache wax?
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You doing Hacksaws challenge Miro?
Yes. Will you make it down?
I've got to try pushing 48x16 for an hour and a half. I'm probably not there yet!
PJ would destroy most of you n0ob cunts...
He is horribly fast. It's his jewish/aero nose I think.
Yeah, fair play, that was a pretty stupid and OTT summary by me. Sorry, I was battered. I watched the rest of the trailer and it looks really made made, so credit for that. BUT, the usual cliches about how you're literally connected to the bike or how you* move along as the bike moves* smacks of the usual internet-enabled stylised guff. Anyway, I bet the full thing is better than a series of soundbites and, as you say, it isn't meant for knobs like me. I spend a short while in Bristol last week and thought it was an ace town. Gotta love that bridge.
As an aside, the idea that fixed wheel bikes are maintenance-free always cracks me up, given that they're actually very high maintenance when you include having to learn about what is and isn't cool, choosing hats, posting spurious drivel on forums, changing your parts every five mintues etc etc. It clearly isn't about getting out on a bike and the easiest, quickest, cheapest way possible just because you want to feel connected to the road, it's about being part of a big trend that everyone's really into, that's actually a lot of fun. There's way too much pseudo-philosophical naval-gazing involved in trying to justify it.
As for "self-loathing, ex-hipster cynic", is the ex implying that I'm somehow past it? Bastard.
That's fair.
That trailer was quickly whipped up I think in response to a huge number of "what's the point, you can't even go up hills" type comments from non cyclists (or just stupid cyclists?) regards riding fixed in general. Those comments appeared on the Guardian website under this article last week on cycling films in Bristol.
The photo used there is pretty funny. Poseurs! :)
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Yes. Will you make it down?
I've got to try pushing 48x16 for an hour and a half. I'm probably not there yet!
PJis horribly fast. It's his jewish/aero nose I think.
I'll be there, got 2nd last year to Ed.
48x16 isn't far off the gear I'm going to run.
I hope Paul isn't going to ride.
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What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...
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"mythology" - no, you mean ego wanking fashion.