[Closed] Rant: Fixies

that's not a rant... pathetic effort, 0/10 🙄

Why? Who knows it could mean a few of them end up taking up cycling. So job done! One less car indeed!

And relax!

Damm straight Earl!
Everyone knows heels have to be at least 4".

that was the worst ****ing rant ever more of a whimper. Whilst they are very strange bikes if people decide to ditch the car, tube, bus then that is good.

Whilst I have no problem with fixed wheeled bikes (I've got one myself that was used for a good few years as a winter trainer, but now has flat bars on to ride around the village and to the paper shop) I do for some reason have a problem with the term "fixie". Couldn't tell you why - just sounds a bit carp! I guess I'm from the old school roadie background of using fixeds as a winter training tool, and "fixie" just sounds a bit fashionista.

fixie rants are soooo last year dahling

Nude drop bars - no control
No brakes - no control
Flip Flops / 3' heals - no control (how do you slow down?)

If you are out in the middle of nowhere - fine, but in the middle of the city - why is this ok?

Atleast in a car you are a licenced driver with a MOT

No problem with most fixie riders - more skill than I will ever have. But the recent crop who are following the 'in thing' are just counter productive to cycling in general.

I know I should live and let live as their cyclists, but the **** with his fixie and little cycle cap I see in the morning make me want to run him over... sorry, but it DOES!

I'm such a nice chap normally, but it's that cap, dunno why.

Nude drop bars - no control
No brakes - no control
Flip Flops / 3' heals - no control (how do you slow down?)

Can't see how it'a problem if...

riding at 3mph

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I just look disappointed and shake my head whenever i pass one - it does for their ego which is the poser's achilles heel.

I regularly have to run the gauntlet of people riding singlespeed bikes in inappropriate clothing - BMXer with stupid hairnet style hats, trousers round their ankles and knees round their chins as they hoon around the cyclepaths which double as footpaths in my local town. That and the old buffers on mobility scooters who think they're entitled to use them at full speed because they can't walk too easily. Fixies on the road, going slowly? That'll always be the dream.

I've been commuting on a fixed gear bike for years. 1000's of miles with no maintanece - great :D!

I love the arty shots of the bikes, they can have such simplistic beauty. There are some photos online of people in fancy dress 'old skool' stylee 8O. They are so funny, how could you possibly criticise? It's not as if they're hurting anybody!

Post some pics, go on go on. Caps are [b]KOOL[/b]!

ANd why don't my smilies work? 🙁

Ha de ha!

JoB - Member
fixie rants are soooo last year dahling

Indeed, fixies is like well wicked, tis all about the Arrospok innit, boyakasha!

I just look disappointed and shake my head whenever i pass one - it does for their ego which is the poser's achilles heel.

are you really that conceited? do you really think they give a toss what you think?

nude drop bars, flip flop or 3' heals

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However, there was a bloke who lived over the road from me, gold coloured Charge plug, narrow riser bars, four spoke aero front wheel.
Nob
and he had one of those caps
Double nob

[url= http://www.cycles-for-heroes.com/bikes/singlespeed-fixed-gear/black-jack ]this is nice[/url]

and he had one of those caps
Double nob

what a road cap? one of those caps that keeps the sweat out of your eyes and has a peak that you can flip up or down to shade the rain or sun?

or a baseball/trucker cap despite never playing baseball or driving a truck?

/s****.

That girl's sat on her bike the wrong way round. Fixie riders are so stupid!

She's obviously a trick rider who rides sitting on the handlebars and pedalling backwards. You are so clueless, samuri.

what a road cap? one of those caps that keeps the sweat out of your eyes and has a peak that you can flip up or down to shade the rain or sun?

but i luv fixy gals who ride round london in mini skirts,i i'am lookin at your tiny handle bars..honest

Still looked a nob though

uh-huh. you are so right.

Here's mine. I enjoy riding it.
Must get a cap.

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GAAAAAAAH!!!!!

DAMN them and their SKINNY jeaned, FloPPy fringed, poncing ****INESS. They keep trying to do weeeeelies outside my flat and then falling on their arses (OK, I admit there is a degree of entertainment value there). Then they act holier thanTHOU!!!!!! when you turn left at a set of lights while they were busy underTAKING and ignoring the highway code.

Also they're all slightly condescending to pensioners, rude to badgers and they buy really cheap pedals.

I feel that was a far superior effort.

Riding bikes is good. End of

MrSmith needs to relax.

Bloke I work with rides a fixie to and from home. He's in his late 50's, and the bike is a Viking, with chrome rims, steel cottered cranks and chrome steel pedals. He rides from Grittleton which is around eight miles on country lanes and he does it in around 22 minutes. The bike is one he had at university and was in a shed until six months ago, and it was second-hand when he got it thirty-odd years ago. Oh, and it's got nude bars as well. Want to have a go at him for his 'niche-ness'?

I ride my bike from home to work most days, probably just over 9 miles each way. It stays outside all night, and outside work all day. The only thing I have replaced is tyres/brake pads and 1 chain. It never gets maintained, looks shite and does the job. And it's fixed. Does that make me a muppet?

MrSmith needs to relax.

really? only a prick would get worked up by something they read on an internet forum.

You'll be chuffed to know that lastnight I made my fixed wheel bicycle much more fashionable by removing half the brakes and fitting some chopped down risers.
Turned it from this pile of steaming turd
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into this slightly less steaming pile of turd
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Carbon risers had a nasty gouge so were no longer of use for off road and therefore ripe for chopping.
Bike is now easily identifiable as a mtb'ers fixed by the XT rear hub, Hope front, monkeylites, Titec Ti post and OO saddle 🙂

Riding at 3mph is not easy, it seems to encourage you to go flat out as much as possible.
Cheap pedals, Check!

^ tbf, I'm with you on this one MrSmith. Although saying that, I don't think I could bear being on the receiving end of one of CaptJon's disapproving expressions....

There is a bloke who rides a fixie round here - 40+ miles a day every day in the peak - call him a tvvat i dare ya!! - he is 75 years old!

^ tbf, I'm with you on this one MrSmith. Although saying that, I don't think I could bear being on the receiving end of one of CaptJon's disapproving expressions....

Don't worry, you'd not get one, unless you were in 3 inch heels of course.

that's me ****ed then 😉

I ride my bike from home to work most days, probably just over 9 miles each way. It stays outside all night, and outside work all day. The only thing I have replaced is tyres/brake pads and 1 chain. It never gets maintained, looks shite and does the job. And it's fixed. Does that make me a muppet?

If you ride in flip flops and go 3mph because you know you cant stop if you go any faster - then yes, your a muppet.

No problem with fixies - (in awe of London courier riders) but some people are just victims of fashion and just plain unsafe.

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here's a shot of part of my boutique fixed bike....pretty pimpy eh? 🙂

Shoes have heels, by the way.

Young people doing something cool annoying middle aged bloke shock.

There is a bloke who rides a fixie round here - 40+ miles a day every day in the peak - call him a tvvat i dare ya!! - he is 75 years old!

i do like those charge plug bikes.you can flip the rear wheel between fixed/freewheel.i have a lot of respect for those cycle couriers who can trackstand,whilst rolling a ciggy!!!(don't smoke anymore though)

the Plug is a lovely looking bike, but if I ever bought an off the peg fixed it would be one of these bad boys...

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fondled one at Mayhem, ace value at under £500