Fixie Fashion Fad Finally Finished

I dig the Self. Makes me reach for my dictionary every time I see him on telly. Never read a book of his though.

All the cool New York kids are riding cruisers now. Only a matter of time before Shoreditch is full of them too.

Means loads of cheap 'retro fixie parts' from the noughties will be available soon!

As far as I know, Will Self bought his fixed gear from Brixton Cycles some time before they became trendy. He wrote this article in May 2006 http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/will_self/article571523.ece which by my reckoning is around a year before this forum started. So him riding fixed foreshadows fixed gears being trendy, rather than showing that they're not trendy any more.

I know this is kinda pointlessly pedantic, but I like Will Self's writing and quite like the fact that he's written one of the few interesting articles about fixed gears. Plus he lives in Brixton which is another point in his favour.

Hello folks,
That's a relief, I only follow fads once they are over.
After the memorial ride I bumped in to two lovely hipsters who asked if I was 'riding back east?'
I had to reply 'sorry I'm not trendy enough I won't be allowed in'
I'm old enough to be a replacement hip-ster.
Peace and trendy love,
Tim

thank fuck i just sold a frame to buy this then before the market truly died.

As far as I know, Will Self bought his fixed gear from Brixton Cycles some time before they became trendy. He wrote this article in May 2006 http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/will_self/article571523.ece which by my reckoning is around a year before this forum started. So him riding fixed foreshadows fixed gears being trendy, rather than showing that they're not trendy any more.

I am a fully qualified fakenger and I bought my Langster in 05, so that can't be right.

edit: actually I'm lying, it was 06... but before that article

In deepest Hackney you look rather naff riding fixed at the moment.

The current hipster-look is lot smarter than it was a couple of years ago, the nu-rave hoodies and tight jeans replaced by smart shoes and a decent shirt. This just doesn't go with riding round on some brightly coloured clown-bike. The bike of choice is a vintage sit-up-and-beg/swept-back-bars/cruiser type affair, or a vintage geared racer.

I was speaking to the owner of London Fields cycles the other night and their biggest current sellers are geared racing bikes, so it's not just the vintage stuff that's popular.

After the memorial ride I bumped in to two lovely hipsters who asked if I was 'riding back east?'

holy crap, tim, that is pretty funny.

i have to disagree, i think he's a sound chap and a talented writer.

he also posts on this forum.

+1

A A Gill however, is indeed a cunt.

the fad won't be over until people stop talking about it..

who reads newspaper articles about skateboarding anymore?

I am a fully qualified fakenger and I bought my Langster in 05, so that can't be right.

edit: actually I'm lying, it was 06... but before that article

Yeah, but fixed only became properly trendy (as in crap newspaper articles all over the place and there being the same number of fixed gears as crippled pigeons) last summer. You started the trend, rather than following it.

I'm over it.
I've fixed my bike to freewheel in both directions.
its a freeie.
I'm struggling to get around at the mo though, gear ratio must be too spinny ;(

In deepest Hackney you look rather naff riding fixed at the moment.

The current hipster-look is lot smarter than it was a couple of years ago, the nu-rave hoodies and tight jeans replaced by smart shoes and a decent shirt. This just doesn't go with riding round on some brightly coloured clown-bike. The bike of choice is a vintage sit-up-and-beg/swept-back-bars/cruiser type affair, or a vintage geared racer.

I was speaking to the owner of London Fields cycles the other night and their biggest current sellers are geared racing bikes, so it's not just the vintage stuff that's popular.

Sweet. I'm a trend monster once again, since I have a surly cross check with frontand rear racks and full guards that looks very old man like. Except it's fixed and has spoke cards.

Best bet for trend scoping is to look at whats going on in NYC. All the fixed boutiques are still going strong several years after they opened and fixed gears became trendy, but a lot of people have diversified their cycling interests to include cross, touring, racing or MTB. That's what happened to me after fixed gears got me into cycling seriously about 5 years ago and I hope it will happen to some of the people who've become interested in the last few years. Except all the trendy twats obviously.

I thought shoppers were the next big thing?

+1 for Gill being a cunt of the highest order

I am very much a post-Self fakenger.

@smallfurry - NoChain™?

I'm over it.
I've fixed my bike to freewheel in both directions.
its a freeie.
I'm struggling to get around at the mo though, gear ratio must be too spinny ;(

:)

Genius!

After the memorial ride I bumped in to two lovely hipsters who asked if I was 'riding back east?'
I had to reply 'sorry I'm not trendy enough I won't be allowed in'

hahaha!

classic.

it's like selling things on this forum, when everyone assumes you live in hackney, and they won't ride further than 3 miles to collect.

thank fuck i just sold a frame to buy this then before the market truly died.

Someone saw you coming mate, the top tube's fucking dented!

I dig the Self. Makes me reach for my dictionary every time I see him on telly. Never read a book of his though.

Your not alone. I attempted to read one of his books but found myself looking words up in a dictionary every couple of sentences.

@smallfurry - NoChain™?

Yep, dropped a few hundred grams, that did.
Would have thought it would climb better.

Running just the front caliper for that fixie look (just in case its still hip).
I't not unsafe though, I've got a coaster brake ;)

I clicked on the link and for a second I thought William Rees-Mogg had waded in with his two penn'orth

then I realised Rees-Mogg would probably have got his facts straight before writing it.

All that makes no sense now, it's changed to Caitlin Moran at the top right, whoever she is. Banging on about sex. Journalists really are largely a bunch of twats aren't they? yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

Italian, steel framed, geared, racing bikes. Early 80's flavour team liveries.

That's where it's at baby....

journalism of this ilk really is cretinous.

oooh east london is trendy and we boring farts in south london like moaning about it shocker.