this video is sad. They're all doing basic shit. Not a good rider among the lot of them. I have a video of my 12 year old niece that can do better tricks than these fools. I really like how someone is taking pictures as the ride up an incline and ride down. wow! talent! hahahahahaha
@TOASTMANOO7 FUCK!!! can BMX bike ride backwards?! can MTB skid or trackstand?!! no they can't stupid hater, it's a different kinds of tricks, just leave fixie alone!!
@gardaGGH are you that new yes i can skid on my mtb ride backwards the lot next week i'm learning left turns there a bit tricky all i'm saying is use your bike for what is ment to do and you will have a lot more fun
keep the trick for the skaters and keep the track riding for the people who ride the track its just not very amusing at all its like the less extreme of bmxn
keep the trick for the skaters and keep the track riding for the people who ride the track its just not very amusing at all its like the less extreme of bmxn
It's embarrassing enough riding around the streets on a bike designed SOLELY FOR CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT VELODROME USE, but to add insult to injury, you have a video in Houston with no Fat Pat, Klondike Kat, Z-Ro or 20-2-Life on the soundtrack? AUTOMATIC FAIL, REPEAT THE CLASS.
@AndEverythingIsGrace whats up with the hating? If you dont like fixie then dont ride it or watch it. Who says they have to be ridden on a track anyways? NOB
Anybody with a brain would be able to deduce that the fixed hub is for track applications, but apparently the faux-moustache, latte-sipping set think it's also cool to use them to be a hazard to others and film boring videos to justify their expensive "look at me" past time. I watched this video expecting something part the way entertaining (like some fixed gear videos can be) and was disappointed.
The heuristic of "If you don't like it, don't watch it" falls on its arse, because any intelligible person would realise you have to watch it first to decide whether or not you like it.
fixed gear bikes were ridden on the streets way before they were ridden on a track. Fixed gear bikes came before the normal bikes. Ride a bike however you want, ride wahtever style of bike you want. I agree that people who cause danger to others should not be riding, but thats a small percentage of the fixed gear scene.
My grandfather rode a fixed gear bicycle 450 miles to find work when he was 16. He did so because the only geared bicycles had an internal geared hub and were prohibitively expensive and notoriously unreliable. For the needs of most cyclists, a 10 or 15 speed geared hybrid does the job. For what most fixed gear cyclists do, a 5 speed or single speed bike would do admirably.
My "gripe" comes in two parts; one which I imagine many legitimately dedicated fixed gear riders share; that of there being a lot of rolled-jeans rosebud-plunging, The Faint listening dropkick dunces prancing around on these bikes that are a.) not for the novice and b.) usually worthy of a much more appreciative and skilled rider, bringing the messenger community into disrepute...
So how do you suggest a serious wannabe fixie rider gets into this without being a novice in the beginning? I'm a messenger and I only meet nice people from the socalled hipster and fakenger crowd. Even the BMX people are nice and mellow and many of them also do fixie tricks. The whole controversy seems to take place online?
Either practising riding a fixed gear bicycle in a controlled environment, or riding a single speed with caliper brakes or a coaster brake hub. Most of the people I see riding them did not even like the idea of cycling until a year ago. You say "Great, more people getting into a healthy pastime like cycling". I say "Get the fuck off the road you maladroit cretins".
Ok, but riding single speed or coaster brake will not give them any experience in riding fixed, you know... and I hope you feel the same way about anyone learning to ride the bike... I often see normal people riding normal bikes that are falling apart with 8 spokes missing in the rear wheel and such. Parents moving their kids on bikes with no helmet on either parent or kid. Stuff like that. It wouldn't be fair if you only hate on the fixie newbies - especially not if they have a front brake.
My problem is that the fixed gear bicycle was essentially a track bike (I am talking in modern cycling, not 1900s etc.) and was adopted, reasonably well, by the messenger profession, but has now been bastardised and turned into a fashionable joke. I hate on anybody that is doing anything out of an impure motivation, whether that is golf, fishing or fixed gear cycling. I do not wear a helmet but I acknowledge that they are a good and sometimes necessary piece of safety equipment.
The fixed gear bike was not essentially a track bike, why only talk about modern cycling? When the chained drive bike was invented, it was a fixed gear bike because that is the most simple way to do it and that is what basically works best in the long run. I can't afford to ignore this fact. It is basically a good thing that bikes are becoming fashionable, like it or not. I think the good values outnumber the bad. Every time a teenager chooses the bike over the scooter, society wins.
If you want to broaden the scope of discussion, shall we talk about wooden rims and non-pneumatic tyres? I talk about modern cycling because obviously this film clip was made recently, and shows an emerging trend. Also, what does this have to do with teenagehood?
It makes no sense to talk about wooden rims or non-pneumatic tyres in this context. It does make sense to point out when the fixed gear bike was invented when you claim it was essentially a track bike. Because that's wrong and why does it matter anyway that it was forgotten as a bike for the road?
Many teenagers want a scooter. It's better they discover what it's like to be the engine yourself. It's better that it's not uncool and geeky to be enthusiastic about bikes.
...and the second being that these bikes are largely redundant from a practicality P.O.V.; if you spend 6 hours in the saddle a day, cool, do what you want and choose the bike that gives you the most return for your physical output and manoeuvrability or whatever (in regards to efficiency, that will ALWAYS be a geared bike), but yeah, I ride a single speed with a coaster brake and enjoy the same "intimacy" with my bike that a fixed gear provides, without having to unduly fuck my aging knees :]
Uh, no... You don't share "intimacy" with your bike the way a fixie rider does. You have no control like on a fixie. You have no traction feedback. The freewheel tempts you into coasting and going slower. The fixed bike messenger will replace his front brake shoes once or twice a year. The SS messenger vil buy 8 pairs of brake shoes in a year, unless it's a coaster brake SS. Anyway the CB hub won't last a year under a fulltime messenger. And the knee point is really just a matter of gear ratio.
A coaster brake hub is not much more expensive than a pair of decent front shoes, and only a little more time consuming to replace. I brake with my left foot on the frame and back tire. I share the same intimacy with my bicycle that you can share with yours. The "knee point" has less to do with ratio and more to do with the backwards force you must apply to slow a fixed hear bicycle. Would you at least acknowledge the danger fixed gear bicycles present to the inexperienced / careless rider?
Where do you get coaster brake hubs and do you make the wheel yourself? Brake shoes are like $10. Since you are on a freewheel bike, you miss out on the key features of the fixed gear, ie. the control and the traction feedback which make up the feeling of being one with the bike. That's the "intimacy" I'm talking about, sorry if you were talking about something else. The force you must apply to slow a fixie decreases with the gear ratio so that's a moot point. You could also use a front brake.
I will acknowledge that a fixed gear bike present a danger to the inexperienced/careless rider as well as his surroundings. No doubt about that. But the danger is not any worse than that of an inexperienced/careless rider on a freewheel bike or a scooter. Actually, a brakeless freewheeler is much more dangerous than a brakeless fixie - and I see many BMX'ers riding brakeless.
Agreed in regards to brakeless bikes, but not regarding a fixed gear bike being equally dangerous in the hands of a novice as a single speed with lever brakes and / or a coaster brake. I think fixed gear bicycles are in a category of their own in terms of "learner risk". I do, however see far more fixed gear bicycles (brakeless) than brakeless freewheel BMXs where I live. Then there are the issues of road etiquette and spatial awareness, which are a separate argument altogether :]
True about the burst in brakeless fixies. I hope this is a childhood disease in the social normalization of the fixie, where many radical leftwing types have jumped the bandwagon in an early stage and thus make up a big percentage of the fixie crowd. I do what I can to kill the "fuck brakes" fixie mentality in our community. So does the police.
I would concur with these thoughts regarding the "normalization", but at the same time would hope (selfishly, I admit) that the "messenger" style of bare bones bike would remain in the margins of bicycle commuting. There are plenty of bicycles, hybrids in particular, that suit the everyday commuter / espresso sipper far better. I hate police and authority, but I have little time for cyclists who endanger themselves and others for the sake of looking edgy.
So is it alright with you if people ride totally pimped out track bikes, as long as they have 2 brakes and the chain goes around a freewheel cassette? That's the next big hit, you know. Looking almost the same but without the dangerous fixed gear, invalidating your anti-fashion point against the fixie and turning it against freewheel bikes. My point is that looking edgy on bikes is one thing and riding fixed is another. They melt together in some people but far from all.
You are now getting to the core of my "gripe" and helping me to elucidate it; bicycles as a fashion accessory annoy me. I want my bike to look nice but will always aspire for function over form / aesthetic. I would say that in the last few years the "some" you refer to has become "many". It also hinges on the folk etymology of the term "fixie" (a term I avoid) and how that now blankets any bare bones bike that has been jazzed up and is toted by the rolled-up jeans crowd :]
All new "streetwise" stuff is used and abused by fashion and advertising. Happened to BMX and skateboard as well. I don't reject an entire concept and subculture just because fashion discovers it. I doubt that someone would ride fixed for long if they didn't actually like it and really, I think that's all it takes. I love how you can turn any bike into a fixie and how it makes the bike so much better. And I don't get why "fixie" is a bad term, it's just a pet name and it's just language.
Better, subjectively, depending on the rider and their application for the bike :] I never liked terms like "skatie" for skateboard or "blades" for rollerblades. Perhaps I am too much of a purist in this regard. I like the idea of a bare bones bike, but for many people, a single speed with a freewheel hub is both more practical and more enjoyable. I do not begrudge one their right to enjoy a fixed hub either but it is problematic when people ride such without due consideration as to why they do.
I agree, but I have never met anyone riding fixed who didn't know why. All I am saying is that if more young people get into biking because of the fad, then that's a good thing. They may go freewheel later, that doesn't matter as long as they don't start riding something with a combustion engine.
I also see the bad things about it, like many messenger bikes are stolen because little snotnosed kids want a fixie and mom and dad can't afford one.
The top speed also decreases in proportion with the ratio, so you may be able to stop a fixed gear bicycle relatively easily, but you would not have been travelling too fast :] I have only needed one coaster brake hub thus far; the hub itself has never failed me and until recently, I was fairly heavy on it. No, I do not build my own wheel/s. Most of both our points are moot simply because we disagree on some of the core contentions of this issue. There are advantages to fixed and freewheel hubs.
True about the top speed, but it's quite easy to find a compromise between top speed and forces needed to slow the bike. Also, you still have to make the same compromise between top speed and forces needed to accelerate.
If you also have to pay for wheelbuilding, then you can't compare with the price of brake shoes. In years of heavy riding, a good track or BMX hub will last much, much longer than a CB hub. I like it though, it's fine for less extreme amounts of riding.
I salvage wheels with coaster hubs :] People throw out perfectly fine bicycle parts all the time. Wheel building is expensive, but I will hopefully be able to learn how to do such myself one day. I will see how long this hub lasts me. The traction feedback you speak of in regards to rider/bicycle intimacy is in fact one of the main reasons I choose to ride a freewheel CB hub :]
Nice, I like when functional stuff is saved from destruction. :) Don't see how you get traction feedback from a CB hub though. Do you mean when you brake so hard that you skid, so you can do "road tests" this way?
Ok so alot of these kids can be stuck up typical douchey fixies, but some of them are my friends and are some pretty cool fucking cats - fixie or not. So back the fuck up.
was riding up a bank a trick? you guys and tricks are lame. haven't you heard? the new fad is here. skateboards with only two wheels with tassles and awesome paintjobs for increased speed. work that runway girl, you are a star.
hey is those bikes you guys ride on the ones without brakes??? In copenhagen it has became a little underground thing to make a race through the traffic without stopping at any time, go over red lights and stuff like that.. Pretty stupid but sounds fun. Do know about that?
It has a brake... Its the back wheel, you just need to learn how to use it, but once you do, its way more efficient then hand brakes :P. I personally ride with my front brake still for safety while I learn. Also, since its just one gear that's fixed, the chain barely gets derailed. But it does happen, and if it does, just put your back foot in the rear wheel and use the sole of your shoe as a brake.
more efficient than hand brakes? are you joking? no. using a front brake on a fixed gear is much more efficient, however skidding to a stop just looks cool. if you are smart, you have a front brake. if you are cool you don't. it's basically middle school all over again.
Then you don't know how to skid :P.. You throw it to the side, and it stops just fine... But, I do have a front brake, I'm not trying to be cool... But depending on whether I feel I can ride without one, then why keep it? There's plenty of emergency braking techniques if you ride without one... And when I said more efficient than hand brakes, I meant, skidding is way more efficient than a rear hand brake. I know perfectly fine about the front brake actually being useful.
this video is sad. They're all doing basic shit. Not a good rider among the lot of them. I have a video of my 12 year old niece that can do better tricks than these fools. I really like how someone is taking pictures as the ride up an incline and ride down. wow! talent! hahahahahaha
dreadlockn 1 month ago
Why so much hate? Everything evolves. Should bmxers leave grinding to skaters? WTF?!!! Have fun!!!!
Palmpat 3 months ago
all that wannabe fixie tricks and no wheelies? pleaseee
chengitis 3 months ago
so much skill so little style
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ah0v1 5 months ago
Trixie fixie! Interesting, the balancing is most impressive.
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screammkiddjayy 8 months ago
t's so fucking gay when people where their messenger bags to look cool.
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www911storefr 1 year ago
I ride a fixie but why do they always have their messenger bags on?
lespaulgtars 1 year ago
the kid at the beginning cant trackstand for beans
Caseybat94 1 year ago
if ya want to do tricks get a BMX or MTB leave the fixegear shit to the track
TOASTMANOO7 1 year ago
@TOASTMANOO7 FUCK!!! can BMX bike ride backwards?! can MTB skid or trackstand?!! no they can't stupid hater, it's a different kinds of tricks, just leave fixie alone!!
gardaGGH 1 year ago
@gardaGGH are you that new yes i can skid on my mtb ride backwards the lot next week i'm learning left turns there a bit tricky all i'm saying is use your bike for what is ment to do and you will have a lot more fun
TOASTMANOO7 1 year ago
@TOASTMANOO7 well, BMX isn't ment for tricks either, it's for racing. i don't know about this, but they say MTB isn't ment for trials to..
gardaGGH 1 year ago
@gardaGGH
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
If you thought no, you cant ride for shit, go run a brakeless fixie into a white van..
BleedingSunday 4 months ago
keep the trick for the skaters and keep the track riding for the people who ride the track its just not very amusing at all its like the less extreme of bmxn
bookstoreskater 1 year ago
keep the trick for the skaters and keep the track riding for the people who ride the track its just not very amusing at all its like the less extreme of bmxn
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OceaniaAE1 2 years ago
It's embarrassing enough riding around the streets on a bike designed SOLELY FOR CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT VELODROME USE, but to add insult to injury, you have a video in Houston with no Fat Pat, Klondike Kat, Z-Ro or 20-2-Life on the soundtrack? AUTOMATIC FAIL, REPEAT THE CLASS.
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
@AndEverythingIsGrace whats up with the hating? If you dont like fixie then dont ride it or watch it. Who says they have to be ridden on a track anyways? NOB
neillshurville1 2 years ago
Anybody with a brain would be able to deduce that the fixed hub is for track applications, but apparently the faux-moustache, latte-sipping set think it's also cool to use them to be a hazard to others and film boring videos to justify their expensive "look at me" past time. I watched this video expecting something part the way entertaining (like some fixed gear videos can be) and was disappointed.
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
The heuristic of "If you don't like it, don't watch it" falls on its arse, because any intelligible person would realise you have to watch it first to decide whether or not you like it.
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
ahh but he had already sussed that he doesnt like it, look at that reply ^^
neillshurville1 2 years ago
fixed gear bikes were ridden on the streets way before they were ridden on a track. Fixed gear bikes came before the normal bikes. Ride a bike however you want, ride wahtever style of bike you want. I agree that people who cause danger to others should not be riding, but thats a small percentage of the fixed gear scene.
neillshurville1 2 years ago
My grandfather rode a fixed gear bicycle 450 miles to find work when he was 16. He did so because the only geared bicycles had an internal geared hub and were prohibitively expensive and notoriously unreliable. For the needs of most cyclists, a 10 or 15 speed geared hybrid does the job. For what most fixed gear cyclists do, a 5 speed or single speed bike would do admirably.
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
My "gripe" comes in two parts; one which I imagine many legitimately dedicated fixed gear riders share; that of there being a lot of rolled-jeans rosebud-plunging, The Faint listening dropkick dunces prancing around on these bikes that are a.) not for the novice and b.) usually worthy of a much more appreciative and skilled rider, bringing the messenger community into disrepute...
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
So how do you suggest a serious wannabe fixie rider gets into this without being a novice in the beginning? I'm a messenger and I only meet nice people from the socalled hipster and fakenger crowd. Even the BMX people are nice and mellow and many of them also do fixie tricks. The whole controversy seems to take place online?
nilo2209 2 years ago
Either practising riding a fixed gear bicycle in a controlled environment, or riding a single speed with caliper brakes or a coaster brake hub. Most of the people I see riding them did not even like the idea of cycling until a year ago. You say "Great, more people getting into a healthy pastime like cycling". I say "Get the fuck off the road you maladroit cretins".
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
Ok, but riding single speed or coaster brake will not give them any experience in riding fixed, you know... and I hope you feel the same way about anyone learning to ride the bike... I often see normal people riding normal bikes that are falling apart with 8 spokes missing in the rear wheel and such. Parents moving their kids on bikes with no helmet on either parent or kid. Stuff like that. It wouldn't be fair if you only hate on the fixie newbies - especially not if they have a front brake.
nilo2209 2 years ago
My problem is that the fixed gear bicycle was essentially a track bike (I am talking in modern cycling, not 1900s etc.) and was adopted, reasonably well, by the messenger profession, but has now been bastardised and turned into a fashionable joke. I hate on anybody that is doing anything out of an impure motivation, whether that is golf, fishing or fixed gear cycling. I do not wear a helmet but I acknowledge that they are a good and sometimes necessary piece of safety equipment.
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
The fixed gear bike was not essentially a track bike, why only talk about modern cycling? When the chained drive bike was invented, it was a fixed gear bike because that is the most simple way to do it and that is what basically works best in the long run. I can't afford to ignore this fact. It is basically a good thing that bikes are becoming fashionable, like it or not. I think the good values outnumber the bad. Every time a teenager chooses the bike over the scooter, society wins.
nilo2209 1 year ago
If you want to broaden the scope of discussion, shall we talk about wooden rims and non-pneumatic tyres? I talk about modern cycling because obviously this film clip was made recently, and shows an emerging trend. Also, what does this have to do with teenagehood?
AndEverythingIsGrace 1 year ago
It makes no sense to talk about wooden rims or non-pneumatic tyres in this context. It does make sense to point out when the fixed gear bike was invented when you claim it was essentially a track bike. Because that's wrong and why does it matter anyway that it was forgotten as a bike for the road?
Many teenagers want a scooter. It's better they discover what it's like to be the engine yourself. It's better that it's not uncool and geeky to be enthusiastic about bikes.
nilo2209 1 year ago
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AndEverythingIsGrace 1 year ago
...and the second being that these bikes are largely redundant from a practicality P.O.V.; if you spend 6 hours in the saddle a day, cool, do what you want and choose the bike that gives you the most return for your physical output and manoeuvrability or whatever (in regards to efficiency, that will ALWAYS be a geared bike), but yeah, I ride a single speed with a coaster brake and enjoy the same "intimacy" with my bike that a fixed gear provides, without having to unduly fuck my aging knees :]
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
i dont caer about your grandad or you, im just saying if you dont like one, dont ride one and dont watch vids of them!?
neillshurville1 2 years ago
I will ride what I want and watch what I want, Neill Shurville you maladroit fuck knuckle.
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
Uh, no... You don't share "intimacy" with your bike the way a fixie rider does. You have no control like on a fixie. You have no traction feedback. The freewheel tempts you into coasting and going slower. The fixed bike messenger will replace his front brake shoes once or twice a year. The SS messenger vil buy 8 pairs of brake shoes in a year, unless it's a coaster brake SS. Anyway the CB hub won't last a year under a fulltime messenger. And the knee point is really just a matter of gear ratio.
nilo2209 2 years ago
A coaster brake hub is not much more expensive than a pair of decent front shoes, and only a little more time consuming to replace. I brake with my left foot on the frame and back tire. I share the same intimacy with my bicycle that you can share with yours. The "knee point" has less to do with ratio and more to do with the backwards force you must apply to slow a fixed hear bicycle. Would you at least acknowledge the danger fixed gear bicycles present to the inexperienced / careless rider?
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
Where do you get coaster brake hubs and do you make the wheel yourself? Brake shoes are like $10. Since you are on a freewheel bike, you miss out on the key features of the fixed gear, ie. the control and the traction feedback which make up the feeling of being one with the bike. That's the "intimacy" I'm talking about, sorry if you were talking about something else. The force you must apply to slow a fixie decreases with the gear ratio so that's a moot point. You could also use a front brake.
nilo2209 2 years ago
I will acknowledge that a fixed gear bike present a danger to the inexperienced/careless rider as well as his surroundings. No doubt about that. But the danger is not any worse than that of an inexperienced/careless rider on a freewheel bike or a scooter. Actually, a brakeless freewheeler is much more dangerous than a brakeless fixie - and I see many BMX'ers riding brakeless.
nilo2209 2 years ago
Agreed in regards to brakeless bikes, but not regarding a fixed gear bike being equally dangerous in the hands of a novice as a single speed with lever brakes and / or a coaster brake. I think fixed gear bicycles are in a category of their own in terms of "learner risk". I do, however see far more fixed gear bicycles (brakeless) than brakeless freewheel BMXs where I live. Then there are the issues of road etiquette and spatial awareness, which are a separate argument altogether :]
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
True about the burst in brakeless fixies. I hope this is a childhood disease in the social normalization of the fixie, where many radical leftwing types have jumped the bandwagon in an early stage and thus make up a big percentage of the fixie crowd. I do what I can to kill the "fuck brakes" fixie mentality in our community. So does the police.
nilo2209 1 year ago
I would concur with these thoughts regarding the "normalization", but at the same time would hope (selfishly, I admit) that the "messenger" style of bare bones bike would remain in the margins of bicycle commuting. There are plenty of bicycles, hybrids in particular, that suit the everyday commuter / espresso sipper far better. I hate police and authority, but I have little time for cyclists who endanger themselves and others for the sake of looking edgy.
AndEverythingIsGrace 1 year ago
So is it alright with you if people ride totally pimped out track bikes, as long as they have 2 brakes and the chain goes around a freewheel cassette? That's the next big hit, you know. Looking almost the same but without the dangerous fixed gear, invalidating your anti-fashion point against the fixie and turning it against freewheel bikes. My point is that looking edgy on bikes is one thing and riding fixed is another. They melt together in some people but far from all.
nilo2209 1 year ago
You are now getting to the core of my "gripe" and helping me to elucidate it; bicycles as a fashion accessory annoy me. I want my bike to look nice but will always aspire for function over form / aesthetic. I would say that in the last few years the "some" you refer to has become "many". It also hinges on the folk etymology of the term "fixie" (a term I avoid) and how that now blankets any bare bones bike that has been jazzed up and is toted by the rolled-up jeans crowd :]
AndEverythingIsGrace 1 year ago
All new "streetwise" stuff is used and abused by fashion and advertising. Happened to BMX and skateboard as well. I don't reject an entire concept and subculture just because fashion discovers it. I doubt that someone would ride fixed for long if they didn't actually like it and really, I think that's all it takes. I love how you can turn any bike into a fixie and how it makes the bike so much better. And I don't get why "fixie" is a bad term, it's just a pet name and it's just language.
nilo2209 1 year ago
Better, subjectively, depending on the rider and their application for the bike :] I never liked terms like "skatie" for skateboard or "blades" for rollerblades. Perhaps I am too much of a purist in this regard. I like the idea of a bare bones bike, but for many people, a single speed with a freewheel hub is both more practical and more enjoyable. I do not begrudge one their right to enjoy a fixed hub either but it is problematic when people ride such without due consideration as to why they do.
AndEverythingIsGrace 1 year ago
I agree, but I have never met anyone riding fixed who didn't know why. All I am saying is that if more young people get into biking because of the fad, then that's a good thing. They may go freewheel later, that doesn't matter as long as they don't start riding something with a combustion engine.
I also see the bad things about it, like many messenger bikes are stolen because little snotnosed kids want a fixie and mom and dad can't afford one.
nilo2209 1 year ago
The top speed also decreases in proportion with the ratio, so you may be able to stop a fixed gear bicycle relatively easily, but you would not have been travelling too fast :] I have only needed one coaster brake hub thus far; the hub itself has never failed me and until recently, I was fairly heavy on it. No, I do not build my own wheel/s. Most of both our points are moot simply because we disagree on some of the core contentions of this issue. There are advantages to fixed and freewheel hubs.
AndEverythingIsGrace 2 years ago
True about the top speed, but it's quite easy to find a compromise between top speed and forces needed to slow the bike. Also, you still have to make the same compromise between top speed and forces needed to accelerate.
If you also have to pay for wheelbuilding, then you can't compare with the price of brake shoes. In years of heavy riding, a good track or BMX hub will last much, much longer than a CB hub. I like it though, it's fine for less extreme amounts of riding.
nilo2209 1 year ago
I salvage wheels with coaster hubs :] People throw out perfectly fine bicycle parts all the time. Wheel building is expensive, but I will hopefully be able to learn how to do such myself one day. I will see how long this hub lasts me. The traction feedback you speak of in regards to rider/bicycle intimacy is in fact one of the main reasons I choose to ride a freewheel CB hub :]
AndEverythingIsGrace 1 year ago
Nice, I like when functional stuff is saved from destruction. :) Don't see how you get traction feedback from a CB hub though. Do you mean when you brake so hard that you skid, so you can do "road tests" this way?
nilo2209 1 year ago
Ok so alot of these kids can be stuck up typical douchey fixies, but some of them are my friends and are some pretty cool fucking cats - fixie or not. So back the fuck up.
FrederickTheTooth 2 years ago 10
was riding up a bank a trick? you guys and tricks are lame. haven't you heard? the new fad is here. skateboards with only two wheels with tassles and awesome paintjobs for increased speed. work that runway girl, you are a star.
satanforpresident 2 years ago
yeh, council of doom is pretty hard, but idk about this group.
MistahSlug 2 years ago
I'll never understand the whole hipster/fixie resurgence, but to each his own.
mtb416 2 years ago 4
Everyone except the guy on the pink bike are pretty weak.
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nameisstar 2 years ago
TRY TURNING CAPSLOCK OFF BUD
xMedicating 2 years ago 4
so sick it's well.
plutoplatters 2 years ago
the fool on the pink bike is a track stand wizard.
delnuggets 3 years ago 10
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City of crank biters maybe...You should take up knitting or something else that's a bit more hardcore you fuckin sissies.
bobofucknuckle 3 years ago
council of doom is hard! suckadadick.
mrock123 3 years ago
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no more shitty groups please!!!! you and the council of doom suck ass!
jacobACL 3 years ago
u suck.
pirattelove 3 years ago
what do yall ride 650's or 700
what kind or forks do yall use for bar spin clearance?
veggieishot 3 years ago
what's the song and artist?
SquidmonGoetz 3 years ago
Instead of Letting Them Fly Away
by the Satin Hooks...
BLACKGOLDCYCLING 3 years ago
@BLACKGOLDCYCLING any link of the song?
m4r170 6 months ago
looks sick.
loved seeing the alley theater in the beginning! makes me feel at home. hope to see y'all soon.
antisam4me 3 years ago
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what is the guys bike setup at 2:30,
what about the guy at 2:50?
veggieishot 3 years ago
what is the guys bike setup at 2:30
what about the guy at 2:50?
veggieishot 3 years ago
2:30 pink KHS
2:50 purple SPARTON
BLACKGOLDCYCLING 3 years ago
AHHH HIPSTER
614ninja614 3 years ago
go team
jews78 3 years ago
hey is those bikes you guys ride on the ones without brakes??? In copenhagen it has became a little underground thing to make a race through the traffic without stopping at any time, go over red lights and stuff like that.. Pretty stupid but sounds fun. Do know about that?
LennartFaust 3 years ago
It has a brake... Its the back wheel, you just need to learn how to use it, but once you do, its way more efficient then hand brakes :P. I personally ride with my front brake still for safety while I learn. Also, since its just one gear that's fixed, the chain barely gets derailed. But it does happen, and if it does, just put your back foot in the rear wheel and use the sole of your shoe as a brake.
T0dK0n 3 years ago
more efficient than hand brakes? are you joking? no. using a front brake on a fixed gear is much more efficient, however skidding to a stop just looks cool. if you are smart, you have a front brake. if you are cool you don't. it's basically middle school all over again.
cameronwiley 3 years ago
Then you don't know how to skid :P.. You throw it to the side, and it stops just fine... But, I do have a front brake, I'm not trying to be cool... But depending on whether I feel I can ride without one, then why keep it? There's plenty of emergency braking techniques if you ride without one... And when I said more efficient than hand brakes, I meant, skidding is way more efficient than a rear hand brake. I know perfectly fine about the front brake actually being useful.
T0dK0n 3 years ago
Not a fucking chance.
xluckyx1 2 years ago
playing cards? are you kidding me? dont ride a bike
its nice to see somthing good out of H town
stuffedcrust 3 years ago
hi, cool video! so, i am just now making a fixie of my own and i have been wondering; whats up with the playing cards in the spokes?
joshmoss108 3 years ago
they're spoke cards
it just means that he's been on rides
my brother has a ton
i guess the pass them out at rides
say12thebear 3 years ago
You almost never get a spoke card from rides. They're usualy distributed in racer packets.
htowncavanaugh 3 years ago
well thats how my bro gets them here in the oc
and my coach
he rides too
say12thebear 3 years ago
case & point
htowncavanaugh 3 years ago
fags
htowncavanaugh 3 years ago
your mom
bthomas230 3 years ago
your face's butt's mom
htowncavanaugh 3 years ago
sounds fun. i might even check that out tonight depending on how much school shit i need to do.... i'll PM you my email address
texaswhatitdo 3 years ago
good shit
i just got into riding. can't find anyone to ride with in southwest houston though.
texaswhatitdo 3 years ago
we do a freestyle get together every tuesday night @ 7:30 pm. meet up at commonwealth and welch in the montrose area. maybe you can make it out?
BLACKGOLDCYCLING 3 years ago