I ride with one leg rolled up at least 5/7 days of the week. I don't ride fixed but as everyone has experienced, it's a PITA to get your pants caught in the gears!! I also fail to see the direct correlation between rolled pants and emo-ness. By those standards I am about 25% emo but you will seldom find me crying in the dark corner.
Using well-honed skills is a rush whether it's the fixie scene or rolling over boulders in Noble Canyon. It's all good. :beer:
The way i see it is one of these kid found there parents batamax tapes of QUIKSILVER.Growing up in huntington beach i seen all these lame fads frist hand.From emo to hardcore,this will all pass when somthing kooler comes along.hopful its soon iam tired of all these guy waring wicked tight pants.
When you start taking luxuries away from the bike your body has to do more work to compensate. kinda like single speeding mtb. Given that I haven't had as much time to ride lately as I would like to, I reach for my fixed gear or SS before anything else. Speaking of which, would anyone be interested in trying this? http://www.sdvelodrome.com/
saw 3 of the tight pant wearing guys on katella off the 55 in villa park today they're everywhere...or maybe i never noticed? :?:
Yo Sniffer, I'm in the Wednesday night class right now. You should sign up for the next session which starts in May. I'm contemplating doing some track racing when the Tuesday Night sessions start. :-k But that means buying a "true" track bike, which means more money. #-o
HAHAHAH, this thread is funny. I dont have time to read through 4 pages of people either talking trash on fixed, or liking it. Either way, I ride fixed in Aliso. The kids you see are probably the youngins. They are pretty strong kids and ride pretty frequent. I normally dont ride down in Aliso due to everyone drives like a bunch of assholes. But from time to time you can catch me riding around. That taco tuesday video was editing by my friend Kenny. I attended that ride and have been riding with them for the past year. That video has sparked alot of interest with alot of people, and im glad to see it getting the exposure it needs. He did a very good job capturing the night. The video actually got published in COG magazine... Thats me in the upper left popping up onto the granite pyramid. Just for the record, dont call em fixies.
Honestly, i just call them bikes, or fixed. The term "fixie" is really hated in the community, ha. Its kind of a hipster thing to be said by the kids who ride em ti be "cool" or use the bikes as a fashion accessory. We are putting together a full length video that will come out in July, but heres a trailer/teaser we have out right now. http://www.vimeo.com/796328/ There is some local stuff in there. I ride the black frame with silver deep v's, nothing special.
I'm a "Ride and Let Ride Guy" and hey I like bikes more the merrier (and yes I want a fixed (wanted one for a long time just haven't got around to it) but my "Bike Closet" is Full so I have to give one up to get one) and I am getting older ...errrrrr More Mature, so sometimes I envy the Kids and their Fads, looks like fun and hell I had spike hair and orange spotted Converse All Stars some years back, anyways... I got one real question. The totally small / skinny in width handlebars whats up with that? Is there some specific advantage. I saw a guy yesterday and his handle bar basically 2 grips sticking out from the stem, no exaggeration. Now I realize when I ride a Road bike I often ride "On Top " With may hands pretty close to the stem but when I need torque, I have to spread them out, or when I need extra stability I grip wide. So please can someone explain to me (really) the super skinny bar thing? (as you can tell I am thinking about building one) Thanks
The SUPER narrow bars is beyond me. Alot of messengers in the city will ride chopped bars because its easier to cut traffic in the city. I have chopped bars and love it. Its about shoulder width apart. And that seems to be pretty comfortable with most people. I do have friends that ride really narrow chopped bars, but i guess they like it. Your never too old to ride a bike. Get on it.
Wow I watched this video and it kind of brings up old fun memories. I have been living in Costa Mesa on and off from the age of 13. The stuff they were doing in that video is not all that impresive. When I was riding BMX freestyle flatland I used to ride at that exact location in Anton except we would get chased from CMPD or the renta cop local security. These guys are doing bar spins , wheelies, wow big deal. When we were riding we were doing manuals seat grinders, tailwhips, cherrypicks, boomerangs, infinity rolls. When I was riding it was maybe three of us riding in Costa Mesa and we knew everyone in OC that rode. I see these people ride all throuugh Costa Mesa and they kind of give bike riders a bad name. When they ride its critcal mass on the streets with no helmets (of course when I rode with my friends back then we never wore helmets either). I wonder what would happen if I showed up to one of their fixie group ride with a helmet and a geared mountain bike?
Dang....you don't need to pile on the "too old" card. You must be younger, see the deal is: Old Dudes can call ourselves Old but younger dudes should not
the narrow bars is the style that came from japan, specifically tokyo. the fixed gear riders there that use the bike as their primary means of transportation chop the bars to navigate in between the massive crowds of people commuting. it makes sense to do it there but here in the suburbs it's just a style thing, nothing more. just like NJS parts. NJS parts aren't the best parts available but they are japanese velodrome track certified parts that are super expensive and hard to get here in the USA. they give more "style points" lol. :?:
