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This cracked me up... (Bike Related)

S.K.C.

Turbo Monkey
Feb 28, 2005
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Pa. / North Jersey
Been swamped with work lately but I had a chance to procrastinate on the web long enough to come across this on a website:


From the site:

This is the trailer for Empire, a movie filmed on location in the streets of New York, about extreme fixed-gear bicycling! OOH WHA-AH AH-IRONIC TATTOO! For the uninitiated, extreme fixed-gear bicycling is kind of like BMX, except the only stunts are weaving through traffic like an a$$hole and not having a job.
...now don't get me wrong - I love the urban sub-culture of biking but I'm definitely NOT a proponent of doing what these guys do. Eventually one of them is going to cause an accident, get horribly crippled, or worse... not to mention that it doesn't exactly endear cyclists to the non-biking community... a guy flys by me on a bike and smacks my car... not gonna be my favorite person in the world.

It's one thing to do crazy stuff on a bike in an isolated/designated area where your actions don't have the possiblity of dangerous consequences or reprocussions on the general public, but THIS...
 

greengreer

Monkey
Apr 27, 2008
173
0
NC
At least a few of them wear helmets. The rest, well I guess darwinism explains that one. They certainly aren't doing much for peoples image of bike culture.
 

kidwithbike

Monkey
Apr 16, 2007
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Hoboken, NJ
gotta love the shots of douches pedaling faster than coked up hamster in a wheel, way cool. video worthy. and wheelies too!!!!

lets do rudimentary bmx tricks on big awkward bikes with flimsy wheels. great idea.
 
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JohnE

filthy rascist
May 13, 2005
13,430
1,949
Front Range, dude...
The ultimate irony will come when one f them gets whacked by a camera car filming him.

I used to ride wheelies on my Schwinn Stingray. All the way to school. Up hill. Both ways. In the snow. Hip deep snow. Year round.
 

Rip

Mr. Excitement
Feb 3, 2002
7,327
1
Over there somewhere.
I wanted to be cool I would do drugs, not ride a fukking gay fixie
In that form yes. But put one with the track geometry on a velodrome, it's an entirely different situation. The track stuff has changed me and how I think. I'm knee deep in training at the moment, putting alot more effort into training this year than I did last year. As a result I'm using the mtb less and less and have been getting alot of road time in and have been doing sprint intervals on my track bike.
 

pZyteX

Monkey
Jan 28, 2003
294
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Amsterdam
why are all their bags full? do you really need that much stuff when getting filmed? or is there a spare douche in there in case one of them gets hit by a car?
 

Dirtjumper999

Turbo Monkey
Feb 13, 2005
1,556
0
Charlotte, NC
why are all their bags full? do you really need that much stuff when getting filmed? or is there a spare douche in there in case one of them gets hit by a car?
+1

There are a lot of fixed gear riders here in Charlotte. Their unruly presence through the downtown streets makes it difficult for cycling to have a good image here.
 

chicodude

The Spooninator
Mar 28, 2004
1,054
2
Paradise
I am curious Of a few things here...

1)Why all the hate? I get it, its not your cup of tea, live and let live (Unless your entire family was killed by a gang of fixie riders, then carry on.)

2) All of you who say fixie riders give cyclists a bad name, what have you done to increase positive public outlook towards cyclists? I know for a fact some of you have poached trails that are closed to MTB's, or ridden dirt jumps that were built illegally so WTF makes this any different? I guess more importantly, why do you care so much?

3) As for the argument of being in the woods while doing your crazy stuff, You know how much money it takes to fetch a downed MTB ride out of the woods? Still has an impact.
 

Serial Midget

Al Bundy
Jun 25, 2002
13,053
1,896
Fort of Rio Grande
2) All of you who say fixie riders give cyclists a bad name, what have you done to increase positive public outlook towards cyclists?.
1) I obey traffic laws and don't scare the **** out of unsuspecting motorists causing them be wary of all cyclists due the the actions of a few.

2) Over the last twenty years I have personally given away close to a hundred bikes to children, teens and some adults who could not otherwise afford one.

3) I have never whined about the cost of parts or service at any bike shop, LBS or otherwise.

4) I've never worn white Lycra bibs on a humid day.

I'm such a saint; this list could go on forever.
 

Capricorn

Monkey
Jan 9, 2010
425
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Cape Town, ZA
i'm curious: none of them had brakes. Now before someone rags me, i know that a fixie dont need brakes, but unless those are the world best chains that can absolutely never break, shouldn't they have at least one brake? or is no brakes just another reason to tempt natural selection?
 

ZoRo

Turbo Monkey
Sep 28, 2004
1,224
11
MTL
The ultimate irony will come when one f them gets whacked by a camera car filming him.
In "Pedal", it's a documentary on messengers, you actually see a girl getting t-boned by a car while doing an alley cat. Pretty brutal stuff, she is not wearing a helmet neither.

When I used to be a messenger, you'd rarely see douches like those guys trying to run red lights all the time. I mean the time you would gain is minimal and the chances of getting smacked are really high.

I hate films like that. People have been running red lights forever and now it's film worthy just 'cause they are doing it with a bag, square black shades and the almighty brakeless bicycle...
 

S.K.C.

Turbo Monkey
Feb 28, 2005
4,096
25
Pa. / North Jersey
Chicodude:
I am curious Of a few things here...

1)Why all the hate? I get it, its not your cup of tea, live and let live (Unless your entire family was killed by a gang of fixie riders, then carry on.)

2) All of you who say fixie riders give cyclists a bad name, what have you done to increase positive public outlook towards cyclists? I know for a fact some of you have poached trails that are closed to MTB's, or ridden dirt jumps that were built illegally so WTF makes this any different? I guess more importantly, why do you care so much?

3) As for the argument of being in the woods while doing your crazy stuff, You know how much money it takes to fetch a downed MTB ride out of the woods? Still has an impact.
1) I totally agree with you - live and let live... but when some guy is tearing ass in front of a car nearly causing an accident, blasting red lights, or hanging on to moving vehicles - they're not letting others "live and let live".

2) I never said ALL fixie riders give cyclists a bad name - YOU said that. I posted a vid containing SOME fixie riders acting irresponsibly. So, SOME fixie riders - namely the ones in the vid and others who behave in this manner on public streets/sidewalks/areas give cyclists a bad name in much the same way Paris and Nicky Hilton give vaginas a bad name...

3) My arguement was made on the basis of causality in a public environment; i.e. - if I blow a red light in the middle of a busy downtown urban area, bad things will eventually happen TO OTHERS as well as myself. Conversely - if I build some dirt jumps on my property and then stack it trying to do a double-backflip/tailwhip/superman sack-tuck - NO ONE ELSE is at risk of getting hurt - just me, and my sexy body.

Why do I(we) care so much?

The rest of the world doesn't give a rat's ass about the difference between a fixie rider and a dirt jumper - if one of them f's up and causes injury to the public at large with reckless negligence - the rest of the cycling community is at risk for having sanctions imposed on them. In other words - it only takes 1 guy to ruin riding priviledges for the rest of us. Ever been near a collegiate campus in the US? Most of them have No Skateboarding/Rollerblading/Cycling signs posted on or near campus. The reason for those signs? Some kids were doing 5-0 grinds on a sculpture and destroyed part of it. This= No Skateboarding... some guy tries to do a "triple-titty-twister" down 4 flights of stairs and winds up in the hospital. His parents sue. This = No Rollerblading... some guy on a bike weaves in and out of traffic causing a car to swerve, jump a sidewalk and kill 2 pedestrians. This = No Cycling...

See what I mean?
 

4130biker

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May 24, 2007
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I was hoping that this was a trend that would die like I thought razor scooters would.




I often find myself missing those days when the most stupidest thing in the bike world had rollerblade wheels. Ahhh, those were the days.
 

loosecannon

Monkey
Feb 29, 2008
182
0
San Diego
So last night I went to this hipster bar/lounge and what do I find?...a fixed gear cycle outside with a downhill stem and bmx handlebars. I said to myself what the eff is that...and then I see this video. Not my cup o tea.