FG = The New Skateboarding (this time it's true)

;195904']Transportation, yea. Fitness?
Racing/cruising longboards downhill could be similiar to the stuff in MASH.

along this thread, people who ride nobrakes say its makes them more fluid and shit, couldnt you compare that to how skateboarding started, imitating surfers and how smooth they were on the waves, then it changed to street stuff, a bit like how people took off their track drops in place of risers and hey presto you get rollerskating.

I ride a fixed gear bike and I like it, but the freestyle thing still looks a bit too weak for me to be impressed by it...
There's still a loooooong way to go till it even comes close to skateboarding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q17MwWYb6d4

FGFers = FixedGearFreestylers?

its not like roller blading because... rollerbladers are the only ones still wearing baggy trousers, where as bmxers, skateboarders and FGFers wear skinny jeans (apparently)

Tell that to the messengers!

;195908']FGFers = FixedGearFreestylers?

Tell that to the messengers!

thats why i put apparently, i dont have skinny jeans, nor do many others, its just a cliche. and yeah FGFers = FixedGearFreestylers

Joel, I really can't tell if you're in agreement or disagree.

I ride a fixed gear bike and I like it, but the freestyle thing still looks a bit too weak for me to be impressed by it...
There's still a loooooong way to go till it even comes close to skateboarding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q17MwWYb6d4

thats what i was saying, like when i challenged anyone to bunny hop london bridge ten. except i do think that the way its been pushed within the last year and a half i think it could possibly turn into somthing good, but i think that it (FGFing) needs to be given time before it is compared with skating, because at the moment its not even an afterthought compared to skateboarding.

cheers conan...

wow according to their last.fm they used to be a hardcore band.... amazing!

just wanted to illustrate it ;)

;195893']That would be some sort of validation. It's too close to home. If you're going to go that route, just flat out call it BMX. Just as there's different styles; flatland, ramp, dirt, jump, etc. and different bikes for those disciplines. A fixedgear 700/650c could really just be lumped into the same group. I personally don't think it's proven it's worth yet and don't really think it will. i.e. rollerblading.

actually speaking of rollerblading, would rollerstaking go in the same group as rollerblading?

thats why i put apparently, i dont have skinny jeans, nor do many others, its just a cliche. and yeah FGFers = FixedGearFreestylers

I can't even fit in skinny fucking jean despite losing 4 stones, why the fuck would I wear girl's jean??

its not like roller blading because... rollerbladers are the only ones still wearing baggy trousers, where as bmxers, skateboarders and FGFers wear skinny jeans (apparently)

Well, I'm wearing a dress right now.

but given theres different ways that people use fixed gear bikes surely only "fixed gear freestyle" is like bmx, just using track bikes on streets isnt really a discipline.

Right, using a track bike (fixed gear bike) for tricks (FGF from now on.) could be considered a 'discipline', be it a discipline of BMX (wrong) or a discipline of fixed gear riding (right, and called FGR, from now on.) in general.

what about longboards? its like skateboarding, but you just go real fast down hills instead of doing tricks, street skating is only one disipline, like vert and bowl skating.

Right:
BMX=
flatland
ramp
dirt
jump

skateboarding=
street
vert
bowl
downhill/longboarding
slalom
the now defunct freestyle

FGR=
cycling
track
FGF
anything else?

rollerblading=
street
vert
sitting on your arse on the ledge annoying the street skateboarders
slalom
track (speed skating)?

along this thread, people who ride nobrakes say its makes them more fluid and shit, couldnt you compare that to how skateboarding started, imitating surfers and how smooth they were on the waves, then it changed to street stuff, a bit like how people took off their track drops in place of risers and hey presto you get rollerskating.

nobrakes making them 'fluid' is bullshit*. But I can see the logic you're coming with.

My big thing is FGF has not proven it's worth and longevity. Like riding rollerblades for tricks has not and will not.

*and I sometimes ride without a handbrake, and did for about 4 years straight.

yeah, i think that about settles it, and with the whole nobrakes thing, i havent ridden nobrakes so wouldnt know, but would assume that going fast in traffic on any bike must me fluid no matter if you have brakes or not, plus most agree that those with brakes can go faster because you can slow quicker, but thats a whole other can of worms.

plus, you forgot bike polo and cycle ballet, and rad ball.

but i think that it (FGFing) needs to be given time before it is compared with skating, because at the moment its not even an afterthought compared to skateboarding.

not only I was thinking that but fixed gear isn't as flexible as skateboarding by a large margin.

flexible?

you forgot swimming:.

-freestyle (splashing around, using inflatables etc)
-competition
-commuting
-vert

flexible?

well, look at BMX, the bike is purely design for being able to do quite far fetching trick and the like without getting in the way of the rider, the fixed gear bike, with large frame and especially large wheels leave little room to imagination, you know what I mean?

yeah i see what you mean about track bikes being big and stuff, but if you look at newer ones built for FGF they have smaller frames with sloping top tubes and barspin capabilities as well as risers instead of drops and other adjustments to, those bikes are quite clearly morphing for more of that stuff, plus some FGFers use 25mm tyres instead of 23mm, ect.

asm, you forgot water polo, also have you noticed that only fakenswimmers wear swimming caps now?

"BMX originated in the state of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California Stingrays off-road. It was not until the middle of that decade that the sport achieved critical mass, and manufacturers began creating bicycles designed specially for the sport."

^ Taken from the BMX wikipedia section ^

FG freestye is still in its early stages, like when kids took out their schwin stingrays off-road :)

yeah i see what you mean about track bikes being big and stuff, but if you look at newer ones built for FGF they have smaller frames with sloping top tubes and barspin capabilities as well as risers instead of drops and other adjustments to, those bikes are quite clearly morphing for more of that stuff, plus some FGFers use 25mm tyres instead of 23mm, ect.

asm, you forgot water polo, also have you noticed that only fakenswimmers wear swimming caps now?

Yeah i see those swimmengers every day at college, wearing their swimming caps/trunks in class and shit.

but if we look at it that way then surely were at the middle point, messengers have been using track bikes on roads for ages, and now bike companies are making bikes aimed more at FGF rather than just going fast on the track, look at the new ocean bikes, why did they make it barspin capable?

Yeah i see those swimmengers every day at college, wearing their swimming caps/trunks in class and shit.

i dont understand it either, everyone that sees me in my swimming cap asks me if i was watching white men cant swim the night before.

can i be tony alva?

lots of fairly impressive flatland stuff in there but still, when you fire up some Rodney Mullen.. you enter a whole new universe of awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U-cgn3cEGA

.. and it makes you wonder, can flatland anything ever get as good as that

Rodney's just nuts. He's been doing it for 30 years now, and I can't think of another sportsman, in any other sport, who's at his level. The amount of tricks he's invented, and the level he is at now, is stunning.