Hipster or not?

1. make sure you're able to talk about the "concept of the bike's design" at great length
   
2. find an absurdly short handlebar
   
3. wheel recommendation: colourful front aerospoke, artistically-laced rear
   
4. make sure there's tons of shit hanging off the saddle
   
5. powdercoat, anodize, polish!
   
6. accessorise liberally with top tube protectors, wacky grips, spoke cards
   
7. don't worry about how it rides... as long as it looks the part
   
   

done. next!

this thread makes my head hurt.

oh i forgot...

1. find the parts of the bike that will get the most dirty (grips, saddles, tyres) and make sure they're white
   

I've spent a while thinking of a nice response to this thread.

FAIL

Frankie says relax.

Frankie says relax.

Fazered won't get that arcane historical allusion.
TBH, there's a lot he doesn't 'get'.
Apart from my goat, obviously...

The boy is troubled and lost he needs you to be his Obi Wan.

Repped for a wonderfully wordy response.

Unfortunately I've got to spread some more rep around before I can rep you again.

If it's a Frankie reference that's needed here, regarding the OP, 'Two Tribes' would be more apt.

If VB doesn't ban Fazered, this bloke might:

Ha!

If it's a Frankie reference that's needed here, regarding the OP, 'Two Tribes' would be more apt.

If VB doesn't ban Fazered, this bloke might:

I read that as 'Mike Dead' - if only...

bit harsh

well, one day he will be dead. then you'll be sorry

You reckon? The announcement of his death can't come soon enough.

Did I say come? That's outrageous. What filth.

This thread needed a poll.
That would have put a capital f on this fail.

well, one day he will be dead. then you'll be sorry

Unfortunately I'll probably be dead by then myself.

You reckon? The announcement of his death can't come soon enough.

I don't hear or see him, so he doesn't bother me.

but if someone had a time machine and went back to the 80s to kill him, that would be very good indeed.

Unfortunately I'll probably be dead by then myself.

come on man, 60's not that old..

Fuck off sonny.
;-/

Fuck off, sonny.

I said it faster, hence the lack of a comma.
Sonny.

Shut your cakehole, granddad.

Shut your cakehole, granddad.

I refer you to my earlier post.
Here's a comma , use it as you want.

Damn I was out in the real world interacting with humans and missed more excitement. This thread took on a beautiful life of it's own over the weekend. The sudden influx of 80's references was a nice inclusion.

The bike had some love over the weekend. New (old) brake levers arrived so I took the opportunity to take the back brake off. It looks cleaner already but I'm going to need to fill the big hole in the bridge. As I'm going to have the frame powder coated I presume I'll need to have this welded or is there a filler that is suitable for powder coating?

Also removed some of the stickers and it looks a lot cleaner than it did. Good progress in very limited time.

this bike inspires me to sand the skin from my face and rub the flayed, raw wound in rock salt.

It's hard to see what you could find so offensive in such a simple bike. Nice and clean nothing to fancy or over the top. Yes the seats a bit chunky, it needs bar tape and should have a front brake with those clips but those are minor things non? Maybe a light sanding with some wet and dry but surely no rock salt? Something more akin to over vigorous exfoliation.

I miss PJ... :[