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Thought some people might find this funny and may have missed it in the other thread
Fixed gear is dead, cyclocross is about to be raped by the "hipsters"
Beware of a skinny jeaned, girls haircut t**t riding a fully tricked out cyclocross bike to a pub near you!
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5684963/
So funny :D
Cool:cool::D
Soooo funny... escaped London 3 years ago to get away from pricks just like that.
Glad to see there is someone on here who knows what i mean. Had a bit of a rant in the fell running mainstream thread about this.Quote:
Originally Posted by nikalas
... just came through from a mate on Twitter this morning..
"shirtless and arm-warmers seems to be in with the hipster crowd on fixies outside my window"
Oh my word, single-speed crossers are getting everywhere:eek:
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/vie...r=asc&start=45
(about half-way down the page)
Oh dear!Quote:
Originally Posted by nikalas
I have been known to do the very un-Eurocyclist sleeveless jersey with arm warmers...:cool:
so have I on chilly autumn duathlons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
What's wrong with single speed blinged up cross bikes??
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_B62VCjkPoQk/S8.../Pompino-X.jpg
I've got some matching white flat bars for it a well. Just need to chop them down to be 3 P's legal.... :D
See you at Helwith then Dom ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Now please don't be offended but thats not what theses hipsters will be riding round shoreditch. They'll be on something custom built like:Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebicy...38652/sizes/l/
or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daisuke...68861/sizes/l/
The more expensive, or rare - or both the more scene points and thats what it comes down to
Pah! Too many gears and no gold track hubs!Quote:
Originally Posted by eavesy187
Be careful Dom, remember what you did to UJ when you started chopping things off? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Also, you need: white saddle, white bar-tape, white hoods :cool:
Mind, that would make you 'almost' a Euro cyclist LOL
Showing my ignorance, what is a hipster - I am assuming its a cycling fashionista
Far from it, though i see from another thread you now know what a hipster is. Now as a rule i don't have a problem with hipsters. I do have a problem with hipsters when it comes to cycling. And the fact that they'll soon be using top of the range cyclo-cross bikes to ride/push around shoreditch etc just to look cool gets on my ti*ts. These poor machine will never see a bit of mud or get used in anger at all. However there is a plus point - and that is 6-12 months fown the line when the new cycling trend will arrive for the hipster these bikes will end up on ebay so you and i can snap them up at a significantly marked down price :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
Great I've only got 2 xbikes, mind you they are not getting much more riding than the shoreditch crew at the moment. The three peaks X is starting to worry me.Quote:
Originally Posted by eavesy187
I guess that it amounts to the cycling equivalent of Chelsea tractors - nobbly tyres that never get slutchy?
<looks embarrassed> I recently bought a cyclocross (Focus Mares) and it's the most beautiful thing I own. However, I do ride it every day and I have also ridden it offroad...
I also single speeded my old mtb...
Nothing wrong with buying one at all mate. As long as it gets used and see's mud it's all good. It's when they never see mud, and only get used in towns/city's by people wanting to look cool thats the problem. I too am thinking about getting one - the all city nature boy looks nice:Quote:
Originally Posted by Beelzebub
http://allcitycycles.com/bikes/nature_boy1/
Steel is real!
That does look nice. Single speeds do look so clean and simple. I haven't gone down the route yet of going for single and fixed...
This be my cyclocross...
I have a cross bike... I am carrying it up Simon's Fell in my avatar... so it certainly has been and gets used, even though I am predominantly on the roadbikes at the moment...
Right, I'd love to get in to bikes but all I see is a massive chasm to fill with money, for me fell running is about all I can afford. (One pair of shoes a year is about it, the rest of my hard earned is spent on DJ gear!! Ha!! I must be like a really uncool hipster, so uncool I'm more than cool - I even run barefoot!!).
Anyway when I had a bike when I was a teenager it had loads of gears and I needed all of them, what purpose is a bike with only one gear? And are they like the old bikes that you used to back peddle to brake? And I ask again, why would you want them unless of course you are a hipster who wants to do big skids?
Also just one last thing, isn't a cyclo cross just a lighter mountain bike with drop handle bars... The distinctions look blurry to me. Oh and whats a "hybrid" ?
No, a cyclocross bike is more akin to a road bike with knobbly tyres and wider clearances so it doesn't clog up with mud. A hybrid is halfway between a mountain bike and a road bike, usually flat bars and narrow slick tyres. Bikes with one gear?? Ideal winter bikes as there's nothing to go wrong when the roads are covered in salt and it's chucking it down with rain.
Oh Hann, no!
Sleeveless with armwarmers. Thats like arriving at a garden party in an off the shoulder frock and long lace gloves. Simply will not do, sends all the wrong messages - gives that stocking top effect to your arms:eek: (I hate that new EEK, it just looks, well, suggestive - or is only me?)