[sanjuro]

I noticed several times this month no handed riding along Mission and Valencia Streets, ground zero for hipster life.

Each time it was in the evening, and while not the heaviest traffic, not at all I would call safe for taking your hands off the bars. The Mission District does not slow down after dark.

Is this a style thing? Or has more bike lanes made riders complacent?

 

[ultraNoob]

With my single speed, I ride no handed on the bike path when I have a tail wind. My fat rolls act like sails and I can do 15mph while pedaling a 10mph cadence.

 

[jonKranked]

hopefully it will lead to the next great hipster trend, natural selection.

 

[Westy]

I ride no handed when commuting just because it is a little more comfortable when wearing a heavy pack. I always put hands on the bars when near another human being. I have noticed hipsters riding no hands in congested areas with marginal skill. I have vowed that if any of those douches runs into me I will mitigate the impact by greeting their throat with my elbow.

 

[ultraNoob]

I have vowed that if any of those douches runs into me I will mitigate the impact by greeting their throat with my elbow.

 

[-BB-]

Wow... that IS a death wish. I lived on 18th between Gurerro and Valencia for many years (about 6 I think) and I would commute to work by bike all the time. I think that Van Ness is a much better route. Mission is the worst bc you have all the um... Crack heads, tweakers and hard core dopers stumbling about and walking into the street without looking.

Btw, is No-Name Sushi still over on Church near Market? Best underground sushi spot in town. Good quality and you get two rolls with each order instead of one. A few other places/things I miss are Shwarma and vegi plates at Ali Baba on 16th and Val, the Pakistani place across the street and the um.. porcupine balls (meatballs breaded/rolled in rice and deep fried) from Sunflower on 16th and Val.

 

[sanjuro]

I live on top of a big hill, in a city full of tall peaks. I like bombing down when I can, which is why I don't use a fixie, but a rigid steel 29er with disc brakes and fat slicks.

Even when I am cruising through the flat lands of the Mission, I am in full alert mode. The drunks, gangsters, and freaks are on foot, in cars, and on two wheels.

Obviously from my years of riding, I'm prepared for anything.

 

[kickstand]

Obviously from my years of riding, I'm prepared for anything.

It has nothing to do with your years of riding, it has to do with how badass you are. Which is evident in the awesomeness of your posts when you talk about yourself.

 

[stevew]

damn.

i was a hipster when i was seven and i didn't know it.

 

[gonefirefightin]

I only ride "no handed" when crashing and crossing finish lines......sometimes both at the same time

 

[dump]

Btw, is No-Name Sushi still over on Church near Market? Best underground sushi spot in town. Good quality and you get two rolls with each order instead of one.

I think no-name is gone. Quality went down over the years. I ate there last in 2004... was not as good as I remembered.

 

[sanjuro]

It has nothing to do with your years of riding, it has to do with how badass you are. Which is evident in the awesomeness of your posts when you talk about yourself.

Well, if you are calling me out in this forum, that does make you an Internet Badass.

NSFW

 

[sokoloka]

hopefully it will lead to the next great hipster trend, natural selection.

Haha. Aweseome.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

With my single speed, I ride no handed on the bike path when I have a tail wind. My fat rolls act like sails and I can do 15mph while pedaling a 10mph cadence.

I do not think that angry sj quite meant that by hipster...

 

[insanitylevel9]

so now i cant ever take my hands off the bars.... so much for get my bar spins dialed.

 

[jdcamb]

Isn't it aweome to know your bike is atleast aligned enough to be able to ride no handed. I just like to do it is all. Bikes is fun in many ways. I just built an old Raliegh frame up. Campy and Suntour stuff I had. I was never so happy as when after it was built it rode no handed like it was on rails.

 

[Serial Midget]

By riding with no hands I am demonstrating skill and confidence to the ladies.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

By riding with no hands I am demonstrating skill and confidence to the ladies.

Every time I try that I fall off causing the lady in question to laugh or cry as is her wont.

 

[Bigdroptoflat]

 

[kickstand]

Well, if you are calling me out in this forum, that does make you an Internet Badass.

NSFW

awwwwww don't let your panties get so bunched up, it's the internet and its serious bizness, plus it's not healthy, could cause you another yeast infection.

 

[Heidi]

Maybe it's so their skinny jeans don't pull down too much. If they sit up the jeans stay on.

 

[stevew]

every one here has ridden a bike with no hands.

 

[Heidi]

every one here has ridden a bike with no hands.

I ride mine with no handlebars.

 

[mrbigisbudgood]

I ride mine with no handlebars.

no handlebars.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

no handlebars.

no handlebars.

 

[Arkayne]

I'm pretty kickass because I rode no-handed on a trail last week... to tie my right shoe. right foot on top tube. *strut*


edit: and I just interrupted a great quote opportunity

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

Thanks, dick.

 

[skibunny24]

Maybe it's so their skinny jeans don't pull down too much. If they sit up the jeans stay on.

Yeah, hipster buttcrack is just not the same as plumber buttcrack

 

[ICEBALL585]

What's next... hipsters riding double no handed?!?

 

[SacredYeti]

What's next... hipsters riding double no handed?!?

The human centipede of biking...