TNL Bicycles Volume I: Wild And Wacky Action Bike

[Kidnemo]

I personally feel that I'm more "in tune" with the road on my bmx bike or longboard than the fixed gear.

[Kidnemo]

Finch - bike is cute as a mutha. I dig the seat/bag combo! Me Gusta.

[Shooting Love]

Here we go with this ignorant shit again. Fixed gear setups are not a mere fad. Do my job for one day in inclement weather and you'll understand this.

Get over yourself. Just because you are a core fixed gear rider doesn't diminish the fact that fixed gear bike and courier style continues to be a huge fad.

[Fe 26]

I think people take issue with the fashion element of fixed gears. Or the fashion element of any of the sub categories of bikes, really.

I can't really say either side is wrong. But I can understand both viewpoints. There is something to be said for buying something purely for function or building something you find aesthetically pleasing, even though the appearance is a second or third consideration for the purpose of the bike.

[Finch]

It's hilarious that people target fixed gear bikes as the problem when you can tarck up a single speed with a freewheel as bad as any fixed gear, which is what i see a hundred times more than real fixed gear bikes.

and you can bolt a fixed cog onto any hub with a disc mount, making practically any chain-driven bike into a fixed gear bike. You can even have a multi-speed fixed gear bike, although your choices are the legendary (and hard to find) Sturmey-Archer ASC 3-speed, or the newer and not so legendary Sturmey-Archer S3X. Or you can flip flop and dingle hub all you want. Or you could an ignoramus and stick every fixed gear into the same category of neon cheap-v's and not possibly consider that some people really like the sensation and benefits of riding a fixed gear bike because that's not possible, only hipsters ride fixies.

[FirstBlood]

Get over yourself. Just because you are a core fixed gear rider doesn't diminish the fact that fixed gear bike and courier style continues to be a huge fad.

You're the one that felt the need to come in here and post a painfully unfunny article about them when we all don't really care for hipster culture anyways and understand that the bikes have their place outside of that nonsense but please continue to make yourself look like an asshole.

[Fe 26]

It's hilarious that people target fixed gear bikes as the problem when you can tarck up a single speed with a freewheel as bad as any fixed gear, which is what i see a hundred times more than real fixed gear bikes.

and you can bolt a fixed cog onto any hub with a disc mount, making practically any chain-driven bike into a fixed gear bike. You can even have a multi-speed fixed gear bike, although your choices are the legendary (and hard to find) Sturmey-Archer ASC 3-speed, or the newer and not so legendary Sturmey-Archer S3X. Or you can flip flop and dingle hub all you want. Or you could an ignoramus and stick every fixed gear into the same category of neon cheap-v's and not possibly consider that some people really like the sensation and benefits of riding a fixed gear bike because that's not possible, only hipsters ride fixies.

the multies are just jealous of all your pretty colors

[Finch]

gears

Anyone who really wants the best skid stops ever would get a coaster brake. Heck, you could handbrake too, but you wouldn't even need a front brake with a coaster brake, and you could totally win every skidding competition ever. with white-walled balloon tires.

[Fe 26]

That bike confuses me. Why is your ass above your hands? Are you racing in Europe?

[Vasteel]

Get over yourself. Just because you are a core fixed gear rider doesn't diminish the fact that fixed gear bike and courier style continues to be a huge fad.

And once again you display your ignorance. If you've read anything I've posted in this thread since it started, you would know that I not only don't ride fixed and discourage most anyone from doing so for a number of reasons, but that I actually dislike riding fixed gears. Free for life.

My beef comes when people who do not know anything about the history of cycling, or think that touring country roads in the spring gives them insight into what a courier faces daily, and then insists on calling them a fad.

I'll be the first to admit that 75% of the people on them probably shouldn't be. When I first got into the game in 2001, the trend was kevlar belted tires on MTBs with suspension, set up to do shit like jump stairs- in practice, far from ideal. A lot of the veteran couriers had been riding fixed for years and as nearly as I can deduce, couriers have been riding them since the beginning, and few outside of the hardcore cycling scene actually knew what they were. These guys denounced that stuff as a trend, and they were right- it disappeared within a year. Fixed gears did not- they've always been around. They have a place.

And in ice, heavy or freezing rain, or on flatland, fixed gears are the way to do it.