I saw this on a T shirt, no understandy so I Googled it still no understand.
Then I read this
Who doesn't love buttons? And who doesn't like making a statement? This isn't political. I'm not here to tell you what kind of bike to ride. Because really...I don't care as long as you're on a bike. This is just a little reminder of where everyone came from. A much simpler time, one more about community. A time when people relied on each other for information rather than some blog or forum. A time when you didn't have a choice...you rode a Track Bike because that is all there was. There was no CMX, most had never even heard of Cyclocross, Road Bikes had gears and Mountain Bikes where just a no no. Don't sell your Track Bike for a Road Bike. Don't forget about your Track Bike because your CMX is more fun. Don't forget that before Cyclocross was ever cool Track Bikes introduced you and many others to this wonderful thing called cycling. The Track Bike will forever be in my heart. It has been a huge part of my life, the person I am and the people I have grown to love. So now it is time for me to give back to the Track Bike. I am doing this by trying my hardest to never let anyone forget what an amazing machine the Track Bike is and forever will be.
What a load of bolios.
what the funk is CMX?
what the funk is CMX?
It's like BMX but turned up to 11
I remember all my mates riding track bikes in the sixties. All those workers commuting on their track bikes. Yeah the 60/70/80/90/20s were awash with track bikes.....NOT
I take it that by 'track bike' they mean something different to us, i.e. not a racing bike with single fixed, no brakes and drop bars, for riding on a track ?
(Brings back happy memories of the evening league at Welwyn)
Sounds like some hipster BS to me.
CMX must be the new fixie.
silly hipster manifesto ?
(edit - BAH, beaten again ! )
Make Fixies History!
In the same way kids in the 60s thought they invented sex, so kids in the noughties think they invented riding bikes.
At no point did any of those people stop and work out where they/track bikes had come from....
At no point did any of those people stop and work out where they/track bikes had come from
I don't think that's true at all; it's all about retro influences and harking back to simpler times. perceived halcyon days.
it's all about retro influences and harking back to simpler times. perceived halcyon days.
It's either a fiction of the time when often people rode fixed because that's all there was available.
Or it's harking back to the nascent fixed gear scene that started with couriers in the 80s, and grew into hipster cycling in the noughties.
But track bikes had to come from somewhere before they were adopted as talismans for the imagined halcyon era of cycling.
[url] http://bikejerksmpls.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/mike-carney-700-cmx-interview.html [/url]
Whats CMX? look at that guys facial hair, it tells you all you need to know.
Sure didtrack bikes had to come from somewhere
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The [url= http://www.pedalinghistory.com/PHhistory.html ]Velocipede[/url] being the first pedal-powered bike-like contraption begat all else.. therefore the T-shirt's slogan should have read "Save the Velocipede"
But who cares anyway - it's all bikes. Therefore good.
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Theyre good for lazy people like me.. Though sometimes when im on the mtb and i stop pedalling i wonder for a second if my face will be ok after sliding over the floor..