Comments on: How To Enrage A Fixed Gear Riding Hipster

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:41:39 +0000

I ride a fixie (with front brakes), and I think for pretty practical reasons. No derailleur adjustment needed, and I can actually get home in the rain when the brakes are useless anyway.
Oh, and I’m not a hipster, and I live in “flyover country.”

F..k you elitist prick.
Bloomington, IN.

By: Niel

Niel — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:51:00 +0000

Dude, very right. However you should learn to fit fixed cogs correctly if your willing to charge someone yo do it. Look up rotafix and use a lockring tool, my cogs never come loose once ive fitted them. (I meet all the requirements).

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:22:19 +0000

sounds like you’re a shitty mechanic who is bitter and wants to look cool. next time do you suppose you could come up with some original jokes?

By: Jonny

Jonny — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:47:53 +0000

Hahahaha that was amazing! So true too! I ride single speed so I get the advantage of the wondrous coasting it offers while not having to fuss with gears and derailleurs and what not. It is however, ONLY for in-city use. I found this out while trying to ride up a tiny hill…. bad idea.

Good stuff!!

By: Farto

Farto — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:43:26 +0000

While jerk customers are to be expected and all that, I’ll never get over the snobbery of very young bicycle ‘mechanics’ and ’salespeople’.

When they leave and you spend 5 minutes laughing about them in view of ME, the guy who was about to buy something expensive but decided to go to the shop run by adults, your boss is gonna eventually notice.

By: Lou Bricano

Lou Bricano — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:06:21 +0000

People who ride fixed gear bicycles on the streets are universally idiots. It’s nothing but fashion, period. It’s the same as these idiot young dudes wearing “stingy brim” hats (http://www.hartfordyork.com/product/2467/stingy-brim-hats). Grow up, bozos.

By: Rya is stupid...

Rya is stupid... — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:51:11 +0000

Rya, You think you could beat a proper roadie on your fixed? Any real roadie would smoke you. Like me for instance Anyways, I also ride fixed, and love people who mock them at traffic lights and then try to out sprint me… I demolish them with raw quad power! haha

By: stllouiscity

stllouiscity — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:30:17 +0000

I ride a fixed gear most of the time, although I have an urban tank commuter and nice, light and fast road bike. Since I’m 53 I don’t think i”d qualify as a hipster. (Skinny jeans don’t work for me…). I ride in urban traffic most of the time, and have also put in some good long rides (50, 60, 70 miles) on the fixed. this year I’ll do a century on it. Lots of ways to ride a fixed gear. I hope to be riding one for years to come. The whole “I hate trends” thing (no matter what the trend)is a bit goofythey come they go they stay sometimes — why get wrapped up in it? Bikes are cool no matter what. As for brakes, unless you’re on a track bike on the track, they just make plain old common sense. Skid stops take time, car doors don’t wait. And if you’re not into working on fixed gears in your shop because your too hip for the latest trend, just say so and quit wasting folks time.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:10:07 +0000

I loled @ Rya’s comment.

I don’t ride a fixie, but I don’t see why you should hate an entire group of people for a few idiots.

By: Rya

Rya — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:43:15 +0000

YOu people think that we the “hipsters” are foolish…HAHA< laugh at your self,all you old men and your spandex..Ill blow by you, on my fixie, and laugh when you try to catch me, and i blow the red light….. peace old timers