skull
Likes Dirt
No one can tell me that running brakeless on a fixie serves a purpose besides posing either. Other types of rigs (ie park bikes) I can understand running brakeless
i ride a brakless fixed to school every day though the city
No one can tell me that running brakeless on a fixie serves a purpose besides posing either. Other types of rigs (ie park bikes) I can understand running brakeless
i ride a brakless fixed to school every day though the cityand if i put a brake on you just lose the freedom of riding
........wait im not a tool, no its so you can do bar spins/tricks its the same as a park bike. some of us do foot stall tail whips and alot of bar spin combos. running brakeless on a park bike is just as 'stupid' and just as illigal. tell me why they need not to have brakes and i do? and im almost sure in illigal in all states well at least in vic it is as well and its $67 if you get caught
.
Agree/Amen/affirmative reply. +1I like fixies. I hate wankers. My hate for wankers doesn't discriminate about if a wanker is clad in tight jeans, obscure band t-shirt and scarf while balancing a latte and wobbling along the footpath as though it was the San Fran CBD (despite the road in the uncrowded urban area being empty), sitting in full euro team regalia with a $15,000 roadbike balanced behind his chair at the bakery after a brisk tootle along the cycleway, or bombing brakeless down the footpath in a flannel and supre pants on some barely functional slammed, chopped, carefully distressed chartreuse and magenta coloured BMX.
In all actuality, the hating is probably only just now getting going as fixed bikes, townies etc have become urban fashion symbols which are primarily bought by tossers.
Just ride your bike, don't go all out using it solely as some rolling billboard to your ego.
You my sir are the idiot,I can tell your an idiot so i'll type slowly. Thankyou Grip (?).
One reason that street/park bikes sometimes do not have brakes is because they often snap their brake levers from crashing whilst attempting tricks of some kind. Cables can also often twist around the headtube etc, causing a quite painful result.
They are still required by law to have brakes, just as all bikes are required by law to have reflectors. However as a generalisation from police, they are not seen as dangerous as brakeless fixies riding on the road, as they spend most of their time in a skatepark or on a footpath, not interacting with traffic and not in the direct eye of the police on patrol. Riding brakeless on a footpath is still dangerous, yes, especially when pedestrians are around, but it is overlooked to an extent in comparison.
If you want to see some fixie/ss porn, move to Shoreditch, London.
I see so many zip past my window (loads of couriers). But I also have the pleasure of zipping past them on my daily commute through London.
There's a real LOVE/HATE thing here for them as well.
I've seen some bike polo too. Good stuff that.
messengers use fixies cos apprently they dont break and those guys do 1000's of K's a week. (i've known a few and they have all had a geared roadie at home).
for average joe its just a trendy fashion thing.
Real life hate:
Go ride a fixie for a day through melbourne cbd, you will get a lot of comments yelled at you....and not 'thats a hot and diverse looking bike sir'![]()
In context Ross, you were riding an almost fluoro pink & green fixie, which kind of screams for attention - and you got it.
Standard...OIII FIXI DO A SKID FIXI repeat till skid is done.