What do you see when you look in the mirror?
Seen in the afternoon newspapers...Single-speed bikes -- and the urban bike-messenger crowd to which they're yoked -- also have garnered a cool factor that has been compared to the zeitgeist of the surfing or skateboarding culture circa 1995. The little biker beanies, knickers, seatbelt-buckle-equipped messenger bags, and other subtle styles of the scene are, for better or worse, moving out beyond the indie world, toward a mainstream-culture acceptance as valid and neat.
Well, we would never try to speak for the "bike-messenger crowd" (they are currently giving us the silent treatment) but we feel they are yoked rather more intimately to fixies rather than singlespeeds. (Singlespeed roadbikes being the province of weenies who can't handle fixed gears. We know because we've seen the enemy, and the enemy is... uh, we.)
We hate arguing the finer points of bike-culture minutiae, but dang it, singlespeeds were pioneered not by messengers but by dirtbag mountain bikers -- and their true forebears, the BMXers and repack racers.
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4 comments:
not to mention FG culture + couture is in it's death-throws already. and it was never centered around the "indie" crowd near as much as the metal/punk crowd; before it was hijacked by the emo crowd. this story is about 2 years late.
awesome, good doctor. and right on.
Fuck the FGs and the newspaper reporters who love them.
and good on you, pinchie. singlespeed is all about dirt, not pavement and chrome bags and knickers.
fixie riders are 10 to 1 pretentioius jerks who ought to be run off the road with extreme prejudice. even the working messengers, who have no business worrying so much about "couture."
fixies are at least 90 percent slower than any bike --geared or singlespeed -- that is equppied with brakes. it's called acceleration and deceleration, look 'em up in yer physics texts.
alleycats? fuck that. messengers with gears and brakes will ALWAYS win, look at the results of any sober alley cat you care to mention with serious competitors.
Whoa, anon. That's going a little thermonuclear, doncha think?
Seriously, you think gears and brakes are that much faster?
Less gears, more beers.
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