Ok here is the deal. I promised that I would let all voices be heard on this blog. Some people are leaving nasty comments, and I don’t think its right to edit people out.
Likewise I got the following submitted to my email. It was pretty entertaining so I will post it. I guess this guy is making a good point about people who get into riding fixed gear for the wrong reasons. Anyway, here is the submission from David K.
so i saw this hipster fixed gear jackass almost get hit by a
city bus in chicago the other day. He had a pretty blue Chrome bag to
match his nice baby blue rims and tight pants and a shirt that was too
small and no helmet and he almost got squashed because he did not know
how to ride a bike without breaks, but still really wanted to be seen
on one because it completed his indy-costume. All I could really
think was that this would have been a really sad case of social
darwinism and that “Survival of the fittest”, or lack thereof,
applies to Wicker Park hipsters who care more about getting behind
the handlebars of dangerous bicycles than preserving themselves as a
hipster species.
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Oh damn. Fixies are no joke. How did he not know this.
I just converted a bike to a fixie and I’m taking some time to learn to ride it in the parking lot outside of my house. My subconscious says to stop pedaling and coast but the bike says, “No way, José! You’re gonna keep those feet movin’!”
It’s a lot of fun and the main reason I converted mine was to learn how all of the components of a bicycle work and why they work. I’ll keep my beloved 10-speed that belonged to my father when he was in college for the days when coasting just seems to fit.
These “hipsters” don’t have the first clue about a bicycle or the many benefits to riding a fixed gear.
Sigh. Looks like Chicago might be cleaning up the front ends of some buses sometime soon.
Too bad people to invent fiction to justify their cute observational tales about about fashion identities.
Car in bike lane? Daft lassie on cell-phone? 5ft tall asian mother can’t see over the steering wheel of her Lexus pull out without signalling?
Better hope your not wearing a hoody in anything darker than neon yellow because some jackass is imidiately going to start blabbing to all and sundry about how funny it was that some ‘hipster’ blew a stop sign and almost got squashed by a bus.
You’ll just never know.
What are you smoking, you’re wrong