Wired: 5 Inexplicable Fixie Fashions

^Fuckwit win

EDIT: sorry, not you Crispin.

Grrrrr!!!

EDIT: Oh calm

ahh the amount of comments under the article make me queezy

Id love to see a fixie combining 'cards in spokes', the brooks, one 'mag wheel', 'crazy handlebars' and top tube pad. That would be uber pengy

Are 20" fixed shoppers in or out now? They picked up a little bit last year and then tynan filmed himself on one and the trend died*.. what about now?

*events may not be linked**

**but we all know they are

I've just bought one on ebay, so the trend is most definitely over...

Since when did cycle couriers have their own fashions anyway?

Since they started riding fixed en masse?

I thought the article was quite funny, as I did the "what white people like" thing a while back....

It's a joke article, stop getting your collective knickers twisted....

Apart from bags and cycling shorts, I can't think of anything that's 'theirs'.

Apart from bags and cycling shorts, I can't think of anything that's 'theirs'.

"lets go round again"

Of course curryers have their own fashion, just as milkmen and firemen do. Well maybe not, but just as roadies (the back stage kind) and tattoo artist do. Ok, well maybe they don't either but whatever.

I thought the top tube pad was to protect the top tube?

Peace

Of course curryers have their own fashion, just as milkmen and firemen do. Well maybe not, but just as roadies (the back stage kind) and tattoo artist do. Ok, well maybe they don't either but whatever.

Haha!

Lawyers have no fashion. Why should curriers be allowed any?

"Predator"?? Damn right, looks like something a paedo would ride

It's got AIDS too. But wired.com, if that's their real name, didn't pick up on that did they!

totally into referring to aerospokes as mag wheels from this point forward.

Mmmm... Kinda sense it's been written to provoke a reaction. Fixed riders will spit feathers while non-cyclists will probably chortle away and find it really amusing.

The Art Ed for Wired (Andy Diprose) is actually a really sound guy and rides fixed. He's also one of the brother's responsible for the Ride journal (which is pretty tastefully done). I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have had anything to do with that article.

Just noticed the author did a follow-up piece to this. It is much much funnier than the original. Check it out. Also a bizarre article on how to do a fixed-gear conversion in this month's Wired mag.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/the-great-gadge-2/

Man, reading the comments under the article has wound me up. Time for a cup of tea to relax I think.... ;)

Raleigh Twenties rule! Stripped down to a fixie, it's a bit like a lanky BMX.