TNL Bicycles Volume I: Wild And Wacky Action Bike

What's with the defense of "if a hill is challenging you're out of shape" that fixie people give so much? You act like gears aren't practical or something. Why don't you go change your ratio so that it's nearly impossible to go up any incline without steroid calves then?

Plllft. Both have awesome perks. The ME VERSUS THEM mentality and "you're fat" "no you're a hipster" war is idiotic.

What's with you and reading comprehension? Did you have any or do you just like to be a bitch about EVERYTHING?

I hear a lot more elitism from non-fixed riders than those who do enjoy them. I find them interesting because they reduce a bicycle to its most basic elements. When approached from an ideological rather than a practical standpoint, they make much more sense. Here is a parallel: A modern minivan is faster in every way than a classic Porsche. Does that mean that the Odyssey is a better sports car?

Yeah, sorry for the harshness, but i read/hear a lot more "Who would ever ride a fixie because that's stupid?" than "Everyone who doesn't ride a fixie sucks!" (which is something i actually have never heard). It's tiring to hear all the time because it comes from people who have never actually ridden a fixie.
Fixie people usually love their bikes, it's a good thing to do! Everyone should love his or her bike!

Maybe the critics are just a bit jealous that their previously uncool peers are now getting all of the attention (resulting in a new type of derision). But what do I know; I shop at American Apparel.

I know this isn't a whole lot to go on information-wise, but there's a person here in the complex that I live in who is selling this bike for $50. It would basically be a step to getting back into the habit of riding period, which if I did I could then maybe look for a new bike of a higher quality level.

Any thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Tones

Maybe the critics are just a bit jealous that their previously uncool peers are now getting all of the attention (resulting in a new type of derision). But what do I know; I shop at American Apparel.

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The only thing I don't really get about fixies are people who take vintage bikes and gut them. Worse yet, paint over them in something like neon green paint.

Every generation does this to SOMETHING and they always regret it. Thousands of priceless 50's, 60s, and 70's American Guitars were butchered in the 80's to make "shred" machines that reflect the "musician." Bodies were completely ruined by being routed to take a Floyd rose bridge. And I have never met anyone with one of these guitars that did not regret it.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

I know this isn't a whole lot to go on information-wise, but there's a person here in the complex that I live in who is selling this bike for $50. It would basically be a step to getting back into the habit of riding period, which if I did I could then maybe look for a new bike of a higher quality level.

Any thoughts?

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I don't know how it is in Cali, but Mongoose is a Walmart brand here.

Those bikes are typically heavier than all the alternatives. The brake wires will rust and break. And a lot of the parts that change gears are plastic and will break down.

If you get it you will have to keep it inside, or it will be dead by the end of the year.

And 50 isn't a huge deal. That bike probably cost 200 tops. Mostly 100 or 150 new.

Vintage bikes are used because they are cheap and available, and the same likely applied with your guitar example. A decade or two down the line, those shred guitars will likely garner an appreciation on their own as aging adults fondly recall their adolescent relationship with music.

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Originally Posted by Tones

and the same likely applied with your guitar example. A decade or two down the line, those shred guitars will likely garner an appreciation on their own as aging adults fondly recall their adolescent relationship with music.

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you're talking out your ass.