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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    andrewgturnbull wrote:
    SecretSam wrote:
    The twonk I saw was running one brake but could freewheel, therefore was not riding fixed. Ergo, he was braking the law.

    Braking the law? That's some sort of wierd oxymoronic typo...

    Well spotted

    Spel chekker wasn't wurking that d@y, obvouslee
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Toshmund wrote:
    Tried to do your survey. Could not find, I have a fixed gear and do not care what you think of me. Live and let live, but some people do try the patience...

    So disappointing when you do not outgrow peer group pressure, don't worry happens around about the same time as puberty.

    Hmmm, no need to get stroppy, if you read the message properly there's a little note at the bottom saying to all you on-a-one folk DON'T TAKE OFFENCE (it's just a bit of a fun rant after I was cut up...oh, I give up)
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    The Hundredth Idiot wrote:
    Surf-Matt wrote:
    Lets face it, cycle couriering has become "cool" and anything that's cool will be emulated.

    Surfing is an extreme example - of around 250,000 UK "surfers" about 2000 can actually surf properly - at the most. The rest just look the part.

    Weird, though. Can you imagine if White Van Man became an object of cool for car drivers? BMW drivers would start wearing scruffy paint splattered jeans, rolling up a copy of the Daily Star and wedging it on their dashboard. They'd replace their sweet sounding engine with something that sounded awful and took a lot of effort to get going to any sort of speed. And they'd start driving like even bigger tw4ts than they currently do.

    Emulating cycle couriers as paradigms of cool just does not make sense.

    Surely that's impossible?!
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Cycle couriers? I don't mean to be rude but it seems a strange role-model. Surely it's a low paid, thankless dead end job? I mean anybody on this forum could easily become a cycle courier if they really wanted to - they may not last long though. Personally I'd hate 'having' to cycle.

    They are not really copied are they? Surely the singlespeed revival is part of something bigger? In MTBing 29ers, rigids, singlespeeds and steel hardtails are very in while full sussers are having an increasing number of critics. There seems to be a retro, back to basics revival happening.

    Anyway, I'll stick to my carbon road bike and full susser thanks and have as many gears as I can muster. I can't afford a single speed steel bike!
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.

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