Lance Armstrong on Fixie

Chips Lovell

It is very odd to see him riding with a bunch of fixie hipsters. Click on the 'Austin' video to see what I mean.

DirkVoodoo

It's pretty amazing the amount of control they all have when locking the back wheel. Slightly jealous of the weather as well.

Canis Lupus

Might I ask as a noob what's the deal with the weird handle bars?

Zorba

Team training for next years tour ? Heard Contador and the rest of the boys are joining them after the tour of spain....can't remember where i heard it though

niceonetom

his pathetic attempts at mad skidz make me feel like a real man.

he also had a brake :eek:. what a loser :rolleyes:... and moustache bars? puh-leeze.

Chips Lovell

niceonetom wrote: »

his pathetic attempts at mad skidz make me feel like a real man.

he also had a brake :eek:. what a loser :rolleyes:... and moustache bars? puh-leeze.

I think points should also be deducted for not having a shaved head, full beard, and a keg of Heineken, like that other dude.

studiorat

el tonto wrote: »

I think points should also be deducted for not having a shaved head, full beard, and a keg of Heineken, like that other dude.

Phew, thought that was a bomb!

uberwolf

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

It's pretty amazing the amount of control they all have when locking the back wheel

I was watching that... never seen it done on skinny wheels (intentionally)

littleknown

good video here about lance if youre interested ( and can put up with the cheesy voiceover )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsO_1_wPf2k&feature=related

Signal_ rabbit

el tonto wrote: »

It is very odd to see him riding with a bunch of fixie hipsters. Click on the 'Austin' video to see what I mean.

Entertaining little clip, wonder what speeds they are going at?

blorg

Don't mean to turn it into one of "those" threads but I note the red light jumping (@1:55) and general level of ass-hattery towards other road users decreases markedly when Lance joins the bunch.

Morgan

I couldn't help but look at their madly spinning legs and think "change gear!".

Harrybelafonte

blorg wrote: »

Don't mean to turn it into one of "those" threads but I note the red light jumping (@1:55) and general level of ass-hattery towards other road users decreases markedly when Lance joins the bunch.

True... ****in hipsters

Chips Lovell

blorg wrote: »

Don't mean to turn it into one of "those" threads but I note the red light jumping (@1:55) and general level of ass-hattery towards other road users decreases markedly when Lance joins the bunch.

While the level of ass-hattery declines, the level of douchebaggery increases:D. I see they fillmed Armstrong fobbing off the police. "It's OK officer, I'm Lance Armstrong".

petethedrummer

Why can't we all just get along?

flickerx

Dont be ridiculous.

Harrybelafonte

Actually, if you watch the MASHSF trailer there's a bit where some hipster grabs a woman and pulls her backwards. What's up with that?

Canis Lupus

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Actually, if you watch the MASHSF trailer there's a bit where some hipster grabs a woman and pulls her backwards. What's up with that?

She was in the way. You should try it on your daily commute. It's best if you go onto the pavement and do it to kids tho.

niceonetom

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Actually, if you watch the MASHSF trailer there's a bit where some hipster grabs a woman and pulls her backwards. What's up with that?

actually i think that is his fellow hipster douche-bag-ass-hat-tard in drag. fair game.

Harrybelafonte

Ah right, makes sense. F'kin hipsters.

I give it til just after Christmas before the craze hits here. We won't know what's happening surrounded by Rapha wearing poseurs and discovery team Freds.

Gavin

Perhaps we should form some sort of anti-hipster squad. We could patrol the streets and when a hipster is spotted, coral them. By maintaining a tight box around the hipster, their ability to break lights, perform ass-hattery and be seen by other people would be drastically reduced. We can thus minimize the negative perception the public has of cyclists.

This would be the passive approach. A more vigorous, aggressive tactic could be to spray paint deep-v rims a respectable colour, thus removing the abundance of green and pink. Faux brake levers could be slapped onto the bike in various locations, resulting in the hipster being ejected from their comfort zone and rejected by fellow hipsters. These abandoned urbanites would be forced back into the suburbs, becoming suburbanites.

Chips Lovell

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

I give it til just after Christmas before the craze hits here.

Town has been full of them for years.

Harrybelafonte

el tonto wrote: »

Town has been full of them for years.

I guess I'm only noticing the non-couriers now. Still haven't seen that many of the hipster-type and no arrospok yet

Best review of MASH I've read yet

"I'm watching a mates copy right now. It's pretty amazing. If you like watching some **** riding their bikes like ***** that is. The tricks are (as mentioned) cringeworthy and hill bombing is really ****ing dull to watch (although fun to do). To me fixed videos seem about a good idea as doing a video of a club training session. It's just ppl riding bikes on the roads."

Harrybelafonte

Verb wrote: »

Perhaps we should form some sort of anti-hipster squad. We could patrol the streets and when a hipster is spotted, coral them. By maintaining a tight box around the hipster, their ability to break lights, perform ass-hattery and be seen by other people would be drastically reduced. We can thus minimize the negative perception the public has of cyclists.

This would be the passive approach. A more vigorous, aggressive tactic could be to spray paint deep-v rims a respectable colour, thus removing the abundance of green and pink. Faux brake levers could be slapped onto the bike in various locations, resulting in the hipster being ejected from their comfort zone and rejected by fellow hipsters. These abandoned urbanites would be forced back into the suburbs, becoming suburbanites.

"retro" 80s colours. they were bad then and they're no better now

Chips Lovell

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

I guess I'm only noticing the non-couriers now.

Jayz, it's the couriers that are the worst of them.

Harrybelafonte

el tonto wrote: »

Jayz, it's the couriers that are the worst of them.

Maybe, but at least it's more of a subculture, part of what goes with being a courier for them

bobtjustice

el tonto wrote: »

It is very odd to see him riding with a bunch of fixie hipsters. Click on the 'Austin' video to see what I mean.

Looks like a lot of fun...tiring, but a lot of fun!

Kinetic^

What's with the difference size front wheel on your man Garrett's bike? Is it a style thing?

Anyone know the song on the Austin video?

blorg

Time trial and track bikes went through a phase of fitting a smaller (often 650c) front wheel with a full size 700c back wheel to effectively lower the front of the bike for a more aerodynamic profile.

This was influenced I believe by Moser's "funny bike" on which he broke the Hour Record in 1984.





The UCI subsequently made it illegal and mandated that both wheels have to be the same size.

ChipPanBuddha

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Ah right, makes sense. F'kin hipsters.

I give it til just after Christmas before the craze hits here. We won't know what's happening surrounded by Rapha wearing poseurs and discovery team Freds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAO4EVMlpwM

Harrybelafonte

ChipPanBuddha wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAO4EVMlpwM

Right on, man.

PeadarofAodh

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRekj46Vq8

Tyre-less bikes...the new trend!

Húrin

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Ah right, makes sense. F'kin hipsters.

I give it til just after Christmas before the craze hits here. We won't know what's happening surrounded by Rapha wearing poseurs and discovery team Freds.

It's already happening. I've just returned to college (NCAD, Thomas St, D8) and like most 3rd level institutions, levels of cycle commmuting are higher than the national average. The increase in the number of fixies I have noticed on the bike racks is just remarkable.

fish-head

Húrin wrote: »

It's already happening. I've just returned to college (NCAD, Thomas St, D8) and like most 3rd level institutions, levels of cycle commmuting are higher than the national average. The increase in the number of fixies I have noticed on the bike racks is just remarkable.

Ah but sure isn't it different for Art Colleges?

flickerx

do people in dublin call them hipsters now as well? i thought hipsters were the type of tight trousers that 15 year old girls wear that hang right down on their hips, normally showing off the top of their arse crack when they deviate one degree from standing up straight.
i used to call them "people who buy their clothes in urban outfitters", "those morons who wear that palestinian scarf as a fashion item" or just plain old "tossers". but fashionistas was what i heard them referred to before.
hipsters is such an american term. europe had fashionistas long before america had hipsters.

but personally i dont care one way or another who rides bicycles - as long as more people ride them. if they ride fixed so be it. i reckon it will stick with them longer than the tight jeans, large sunglasses, etc.

Harrybelafonte

I used to call them "trendies" when I was younger with issues. I guess you're right though about more people cycling, but will they also follow the light breaking and arrogance levels of international hipsterdom.

Palestinian scarf has always been worn over here, since I can remember anyway. We all had the in school. Cheap and military chic. Though most people I've asked don't realise they're PLO items.

It's all the rage



Spainish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero likes them too

flickerx

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

I used to call them "trendies" when I was younger with issues. I guess you're right though about more people cycling, but will they also follow the light breaking and arrogance levels of international hipsterdom.

i dont think that has anything to do with being a fashionista (trendies is a good term as well), look at that video from youtube someone reposted about people breaking lights in dublin. you think any of them are posing for the likes of that "dublin streets" blog? i doubt it. they just look like your good old, down to earth, hi viz wearing, crap mtb riding, dont-give-a-fúck-the-lights oirish cyclists.

flickerx

here are some dublin fashionistas from that blog. christ, its just... awful.








the icing on the cake:



i guess she's dressed reasonably sensibly in comparison to the others. i credit the bicycle.

Harrybelafonte

Christ it's worse than I thought. Her bike's not bad though. You have a link?

Chips Lovell

In an attempt to dispel the confusion I've composed this handy questionaire.

Do you have:

1. No brakes on your fixie?
2. A superfluous aerospoke front wheel?
3. A bike adorned with stickers and spoke cards?
4. Handlebars narrower than your hips?
5. Proper track bars, but no bar tape?
6. A pink Chris King headset on a €100 frame?
7. Rims any colour other than black?
8. Dreadlocks?
9. More than one tattoo?
10. More than one piercing?
11. A beard?

If you answered yes to five or more of these questions, then yes, you may be a fixie riding hipster.

fleet

Kinetic^ wrote: »

What's with the difference size front wheel on your man Garrett's bike? Is it a style thing?

I have the same, but in reverse, a 700c front and a 26 inch rear on an MTB frame.

But that's because I couldn't afford a new front suspension and a 700 was all I had.

flickerx

el tonto wrote: »

In an attempt to dispel the confusion I've composed this handy questionaire.

Do you have:

1. No brakes on your fixie?
2. A superfluous aerospoke front wheel?
3. A bike adorned with stickers and spoke cards?
4. Handlebars narrower than your hips?
5. Proper track bars, but no bar tape?
6. A pink Chris King headset on a €100 frame?
7. Rims any colour other than black?
8. Dreadlocks?
9. More than one tattoo?
10. More than one piercing?
11. A beard?

If you answered yes to five or more of these questions, then yes, you may be a fixie riding hipster.

uh oh. i might be drifting dangerously close to some of the above. i had no brakes on my yellow self-build for a while, but only because I couldnt find an affordable long reach calipers (got one eventually off an old raleigh). my handlebars are probably narrower than my hips at the moment cos i've put on so much weight in the past 17 days since the accident, eating sleeping and painkillers do that to you. my bike has a sticker that says "fúck the garda, pig scum" on it - does that count? and i do have more than one tattoo, and a pathetic attempt at a beard.

but seriously though, isnt the difference between being a sound fixie rider and a fashionista is that you built your bike yourself from cheaper parts you got off eBay and wheelandsprocket, instead of forking out more than a grand on colouredy parts like the above?

petethedrummer

If riding bikes(fixie or not) is part of some new fashion then I for one am all for it, as long the ladies take to it.

Chips Lovell

flickerx wrote: »

uh oh. i might be drifting dangerously close to some of the above.

Just don't buy that aerospoke front wheel and I think you'll be alright;)

flickerx wrote: »

but seriously though, isnt the difference between being a sound fixie rider and a fashionista is that you built your bike yourself from cheaper parts you got off eBay and wheelandsprocket, instead of forking out more than a grand on colouredy parts like the above?

I think the key is to hipsterdom is fashion winning out over function.

Gavin

Christ a pink ****ing stem.

Trojan

Hipsters:

DirkVoodoo

Is it cold in here?

flickerx

i know which type of hipster i generally prefer.

fish-head

I've come over with a strange urge for some raisins.

Gavin

I'd like some peanuts

Kinetic^

The word of the day is Protrusion!