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Fixies - best thing since spokie dokes or tosser material?

Love my customised fixie jobbie
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6%
Only OK if an old school bike tidied up, no coloured chains allowed
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9%
Wish I was cool enough to ride one
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9%
Yeah make sense, melbourne isn't exactly hilly - harden up and get one
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6%
Meh/can't say I've noticed them?
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3%
Fad - custom jobs mainly for wankers who like being seen in the right coffee shops
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46%
Despite my other choices, the ones with no brakes are a wanky hazard, madness should be taken off the roads
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23%
 
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lycra cycling gear looks well ghey, but at least it serves a purpose

stovepipes, a flannel and no brakes on the other hand, are mere trends
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Flannel is a lifestyle not a trend.
Its serves many purposes besides being something to wear whilst riding a bike.
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arguing for the sake of arguing also serves a purpose


wait, no it doesn't




















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And posting a comment on the internet makes you right and no one should challenge your notion.
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is so!




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who knew?
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do you guys disslike singlespeed/freewheel bikes too? or just fixed gear? what do you think of singlespeed mountain bikes?
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single speed ftw imo... I hate gears, never use them anyway even if a bike has them.. I just use the highest gear and leave it set.
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i hav eone :(
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nic wrote:i hav eone :(
shoreditch + skinny black jeans + fixie + love of a good rave (cf. joker)
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mrj wrote:I've always been a cycling enthusiast so I can't help but like nice bikes.

and a lot of the customised bizzo's that are going around a quite simply beautiful bikes.
+ I think the simplicity of single speed is great, especially after years of mashinng derailuers in the city.

having the fixed wheel aspect is a problem. fixed wheel in the city can be very dangerous, it's sorta ok for experienced riders who have the strength to control them but in the wrong hands they are hazards.

all in all i don't have a problem with the bikes, but yeh like any fad its been victimsed by its own success.
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yeah absolutely i love my bike. single speed is great. so simple. easy to service and keep running.

melbourne's pretty flat. i'd rather be on a simple nicely made bike than one with millions of shocks and stupid bits for offroad riding, when all i'm ever likely to do is jump off a kerb.
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how is a cassette and deraillieur gonna stop you jumping off a kerb?
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:?: read it again...
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yeah fair enough, i'd just woken up when i posted that and wasn't paying much attention




but i still reckon fixies are shit
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yeah, what is it with the cards in the spokes?
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''It's like cracking down on people who pick their nose when driving,'' said Andy White, of cycling blog fyxomatosis.com.
Ummm not really... more like cracking down on people who drive cars with no brakes. Hipster!
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It's just going to make distros include brakes and reflectors and bells etc with the bikes, custom built and track bikes are not affected. it's still all up to the individual anyway. You certainly dont need a rear brake at all if you're riding fixed however my front brake gets a hell of a workout (except when it's wet hehe)

Generally people who are riding without standard brakes are not going to be riding dangerously anyway and more often than not they are going to be fairly experienced riders so they know what it takes to stop. If you're on a mountain bike and someone runs out in front of you and you brake too hard on your disc brakes you're going over the handlebars.
andy_hoffman wrote:Ummm not really... more like cracking down on people who drive cars with no brakes.
Fixed gear bikes without caliper brakes are not brakeless, they have a brake. Just like my BMX i had when i was a kid only had a back pedal brake.

I'd be more worried about all the people that seem to think it's uncool to wear a helmet.
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Yeah i know. maybe more like cars with just a handbrake. They're nowhere near as effective as normal caliper breaks. If your pedals aren't in the right position, you can't stop straight away, you still have to do half a pedal to break properly.
IMO they're far more dangerous than normal bikes.
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You need to ride one before you can judge :P i can skid stop left and right, takes about half a second for your feet to be in the right position. There are far more dangerous things on the road and they're mostly pedestrians with no regard for road safety or or shared paths.
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I owned bmx bikes when i was younger. I remember how the breaks were shitty. And in that half a second you could easily stack into a pedestrian or car. Admit it ya hipster they aren't as effective as caliper breaks :P
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I never said they were! In half a second you'd run into a car if you were walking :P. just sticking up for the other side of the argument here as no one else will i imagine. (lucas? huhu)

also everyone on this forum is more of a hipster than i am :P

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Haha take that down!
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"proper fixies" with no free spinning wheels are psychotic.
i never really noticed them until my brother and his housemate got one each.
then i see someone coming down this massive hill with his legs outstretched and the pedals going a million miles an hour...

looked a right dick he did.
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fixies are not made for hills.

ths guy handles the hill tho.

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haha he looks like a complete goose riding that thing on the ramps! NO HELMET! must be too cool for that :teef:
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it's all the rage in europe
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It is def a fad, but hey at least a healthy fad, and not really offensive....

I heart my bike, jsut a plain old thing, nothing flash, but currently sticking stickers all over it, to make it my own...

I do however hope this fad does lead to an overall INCREASE in the number of people who see push bikes - of ANY kind - as a viable mode of transport other than PT or cars, then if that happens i would be one happy chick!

Need a carton of milk, don't get in your car or on the tram jump on a bike, need to go to teh supermarket - jump on your bike peoples.

I want to see a movement AWAY from lycra clad Tour De France wannabe's to normal everyday people getting from A to B....
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When did fixies come back in? I used to ride a bright red one with upside down handlebars when I was about 14... Is it still cool for them to look like that or is it something else now?

Either way, bikes are like cars to me. If it gets you from A to B (and isn't too dangerous or environmentally damaging) then who gives a flying fuck? Each to their own...
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I got a bike at last! It isn't a fixie though.
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TBH I hear there's a new fixie shop opening up in town that sells really good coffee.

anyone know anything about this? they're making mad bikes
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apparently it's full of hipsters with ironic beards, oh well
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fooishbar wrote:apparently it's full of hipsters with ironic beards, oh well
and dubstep fans with ironic posts
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This makes me a zing?
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pmsl @ above exchange
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Zing
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I prefer iconic beards tbh
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i get it !!!
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$599 for this one hahahahhaaaar
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Aaahhh right I've seen those things around... Never payed all that much attention to them though. They're really taking the fixie from bogan to stylin :) That looks like it has breaks??
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Haha I mean brakes
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