Fixies the Lastest Craze

prj45

Riding a bicycle without brakes sounds like a rash move, but a wave of cyclists are eschewing traditional bikes for a stripped-down machine known as a fixed-gear.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/mar/09/green

tardington

They've been in the Torygraph, and even FHM. We need a harder, more left wing sort of bike...

BentMikey

The craze started back in 2006, I thought it was over now? I can't wait for it to be over anyway, so I can exercise a bit of anti-fashion.

TheBoyBilly

Judging by the number of Langsters I see Mike I don't think it's a passing phase. Aren't you anti-fashion enough on your recumbent?

prj45

tardie wrote:

They've been in the Torygraph, and even FHM. We need a harder, more left wing sort of bike...

We're losing our cool!

There's always the unicycle.

What would be really agressive car hating anarchist though, a bike made out of wing mirrors ripped off of cars?

SamWise72

This is news? I have two fixes, and two single speeds, but I really thought this was OLD news. I've been riding fixed for 2 years, and 2 years ago, it was considered old news. Not that I would ride brakeless! I do, however, remember seeing two wanky-haircut art student types outside a pub in Hackney on brakeless fixies with no clips and straps, just platforms. Suicide.

DavidTQ

I must have been well ahead of my time I got bored of riding fixed circa 1985... That said if I didnt live in a town built on 7 hills (allegedly Im sure theres more) I might be tempted to give one a go.

Fuzz Monkey Five

DavidTQ wrote:

I must have been well ahead of my time I got bored of riding fixed circa 1985... That said if I didnt live in a town built on 7 hills (allegedly Im sure theres more) I might be tempted to give one a go.

7 hils ? That must be Torquay then !!! Feelsd liek a lot more to me when I'm rding around.

DavidTQ

Fuzz Monkey Five wrote:

DavidTQ wrote:

I must have been well ahead of my time I got bored of riding fixed circa 1985... That said if I didnt live in a town built on 7 hills (allegedly Im sure theres more) I might be tempted to give one a go.

7 hils ? That must be Torquay then !!! Feelsd liek a lot more to me when I'm rding around.

Thats the one.

Glad to hear it wasnt you I saw being put into an ambulance Sunday morning, passed an accident on the Torquay - Paignton seafront road, looked like a car got a cyclist in the cycle lane paignton bound near the livermead cliff hotel. Not sure though. Didnt look good at all

Fuzz Monkey Five

DavidTQ wrote:

Torquay - Paignton seafront road, looked like a car got a cyclist in the cycle lane paignton bound near the livermead cliff hotel. Not sure though. Didnt look good at all

That is a real nasty strech there along teh seafront, I tend to avoid it and go the lanes around livermead to keep of the main raod.

DavidTQ

Fuzz Monkey Five wrote:

DavidTQ wrote:

Torquay - Paignton seafront road, looked like a car got a cyclist in the cycle lane paignton bound near the livermead cliff hotel. Not sure though. Didnt look good at all

That is a real nasty strech there along teh seafront, I tend to avoid it and go the lanes around livermead to keep of the main raod.

Dont blame you horribly tiny cycle lanes along that main road and the cars are in them all the time :evil: Whoever designed the cycle lanes round this way needs shooting, or better perhaps to be forced to cycle in the things...

andyp

One of the regulars on londonfgss has spoofed the article;

http://dublinmessengers.blogspot.com/20 ... ticle.html

chronyx

Cough, splutter, gasp

Don't be mid-swig a mug of tea when you read the 'alternate' version...it has consequences!

johnnyhotdog

prj45 wrote:

tardie wrote:

There's always the unicycle.

that's fixed too.