boogie hands Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 using a bike as a fashion accessory is one of the most obnoxious things that has come about in the last 5 years. its a mode of transportation and a way to get exercise and thats the extent of it. besides, if half of these little biker kids i see were as tough at they think they are they would be running for exercise....pussies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knim_One Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 i dont see anything wrong with wanting a dope lookin bike. its just like shoes. they can look dope AND be a good bike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogie hands Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 no there isnt. there is something wrong with taking up a hobby or "lifestyle" because it helps you look cool within your little scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoiseuth Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 i am just putting it out there. i can also service every part of my bicycle. riding a bike is one of the few things i live for. a perfect moment for me would be having some sex while smoking a vega and painting a fill all while on my bike. regardless of whether or not you can be down with that i dont care. people who get wrapped up in hating scenes are no better than those who buy into scenes. it all gets pretty tired. ride the bike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gat Bush Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 buncha elitest mothafuckas in here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 I'm gonna have to go with Hesh on this one... Keep it going kids, have fun and have fun riding. I'm out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gat Bush Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Fuel fo teh fiyah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the man the myth the GOON Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 to hesh and joker: so you're above kids on here that ride fixed, period? thats great that you guys ride, and have been riding fixed for a while, but for real--a couple pages back you broke down why being a messenger sucks and it sucks that its been romanticized--now you're saying you're above ALL the new(er) kids? that some real bullshit. i don't ride fixed. i think its gay, but more bikes is a good thing, end of thought, being elitist about what/how/how long/etc you ride is far fucking gayer than the art school faggots with white belts and chrome bags. pulling the "old school" "grandfather" card defines why i don't hang out with bike kids (or hardcore kids for that matter). fuck that shit. ride to ride, if somebody's a faggot, grats to them, but their presence helps all of us--mountain bikers, bmx kids, roadies, and fixed kids. maybe i'm misinterpreting your statements, but if not, that attitude is more wack than anything else on this board--not to mention that its the internet....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupBDC Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Jokes is out like, out out?? Oh man I dig the superficial talks and shit but not without some of the senior members balancing out the overall media. I'll miss the commentary. Hope you come back some time, maybe next Le Tour and drop that insight. Stay up, keep on riding, or whatever it is you do that makes you seem like such a dope character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkbianchi Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 i cant wait to scoop the fly low low price beacuse of the fad fallout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oc80 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 fixed gears are good because rookies usually can't service derailers, or center cantilever brakes. it's trial by fire at 4pm when their rookie legs are tired, the bike won't let them.. haha.. if you are not a messenger, they are great in the end of the winter after weight training, a super small gear on a road bike frame w/ brakes of course.. long slow rides with a high cadence build a good base for the racing season.. my old team mate when i raced once told me the bigger the base of your pyramid, the taller it can be built. good advice i always used. i like running, but stick to trail running/scrambling when it's raining/too shitty out/snowing to ride.. and also to mix it up cause mental fatigue hurts a training regime worse than physical exhaustion.. if you trail run where you mountain bike (also good to throw in x2 a week in your scedule to keep you brain fresh..) you learn the single track like the back of your hand.. the eastbay hills are some of the best trails i ever ran/rode and broke bones on. man i miss norcal cycling.. and graf of course. and i don't care what you say.. rivendell is the shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubbish heap two Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 using a bike as a fashion accessory is one of the most obnoxious things that has come about in the last 5 years. its a mode of transportation and a way to get exercise and thats the extent of it. besides, if half of these little biker kids i see were as tough at they think they are they would be running for exercise....pussies. as if people don't use cars as fashion statements? as if people don't use skateboards, or anything material for that matter as a fashion statement? i mean you guys talk like this is something new when really it's not. it's been going on forever. you are what you own in our capitalistic society, i don't want to sound all cliche but it's pretty true. and on that note, i wonder if some messengers / people in the bike "scene" aren't even more pretentious than the hipsters they complain about... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupBDC Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 bandanna scarf? Whoisseuth I'm a buy you a windbreaker dude. $20, water proof, lightweight, works a tad better than a bandanna, and folds up just as small. I got this true-blue colored windbreaker by a "cheap and cheerful" brand called Canari from REI, and as ugly as the thing is, it works like a charm. I miss the conversations about bicycle messengers with actual bicycle messengers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beef sweat Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 as if people don't use cars as fashion statements? as if people don't use skateboards, or anything material for that matter as a fashion statement? i mean you guys talk like this is something new when really it's not. it's been going on forever. you are what you own in our capitalistic society, i don't want to sound all cliche but it's pretty true. and on that note, i wonder if some messengers / people in the bike "scene" aren't even more pretentious than the hipsters they complain about... you know what i'm sayin? somebody say word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 hahaha fuckin word! get a million fuckin bucks as a status symbol! i love my two fixed gear bicycles. my parents got me a fuji for xmas. it's got tons of gears and a couple brakes. i rode it in to work yesterday and it is a nice bike but it'll have it's place..on trails, in shit weather, when i'm wearing nice clothes and can't use clips etc. my fixed's are awesome though my body has a rythym with the bike, we move together. it's not sex or anything, but it's good fun. for me, it has zero to do with a scene especially since i am not, nor have ever been a messenger, and i don't go to bars, or even out of my house really. i'm fuckin 30 gatdamn years old and beyond givcing a fuck about bikes as a status symbol people my age have audi's and big houses as status symbols, not bikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogie hands Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 as if people don't use cars as fashion statements? i guess they do? i dont know....i tend to buy stuff because i like it so youll have to have that conversation with someone else. anyway....im going to get out of here. i know nothing about bikes and im not trying to get this thing off topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HESHIANDET Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 #$%@& these dudes will all say the sane thing as you but the fact remains that a month ago they saw some dude as retarded as themselves riding some wack conversion, or cookie cutter jawn and decided that shit was cool. then they went online, got all the 411 and tech info, and then they will pull up on you one day while your locking up and try to be down w/ you and talk all kinds of shit. i hate you fuckers... ok, im really gone now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 why does this shit even bother you? i don't understand why these people are even on your radar? isn't it enough that they look so ridiculous, not only do you not have to point it out to others it saves you the trouble of wasting any time on them let it roll peoples, otherwise, you are wasting energy on dumb asses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoiseuth Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 i wish this didnt bother me. i wish i didnt think hesh was talking about me. i wish people werent getting all worked up over what someone else does. im gonna go start a thread about kids who road bikes prior to getting into fixed but then bought a bike that says bianchi really big and made in taiwan really small. and i only want kids like that to post in it. i need a hummer (the truck). no homo. edit- sorry i am so insecure but let me get some shit out there to a bunch of kids spread all over the world whom i will most likely never meet but still feel the need to try to convince. i have been riding bikes as a commuter for as long as i can remember. i used to fall asleep at the handlebars following my dad around the bike trail. prior to that i chilled in the bugger, the kiddie trailer my dad used to strap to the P15. i would say i got into bikes though about six or seven years ago. i started out riding my dads bikes. my dads paramount, my dads stumpjumper. then i got into chicago schwinns. my dad found me a mint 1972 varsity. about this time bikes became the chosen mode of getting around. riding posse deep to fires in the woods or on midnight cruises through the trails. i rode that for a year and a half. then i went away to school. the first summer i was there i ordered my pista from the local shop. the owner had only sold one or two others and had no idea what to do with a track bike. i got my 411 from my dad who you will find changing tires from knobbie to slick, and switching up his handlebars back and forth, back and forth on a rainy day like a barbie doll because bikes are the one thing besides 24s of MGD that he is into. a piece back he sold his other paramount, a yellow P10. i think it may be his only regret. and finally,you prolly wont catch me trying to talk you up at the bike rack. mostly because i dont know you and you dont know me. i have friends who are into bikes that were friends before we were into bikes. just like i have friends who were friends before graffiti. i am not into wanting to shake your hand or swing from your nuts because you are more hardcore than me. this is stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HESHIANDET Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 awesome. im really done now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupBDC Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Anyone know much about bottom brackets and cranks? When trackstanding I can feel a small lag between moving the pedal and the chainring actually torquing the wheel. It's a small gap and I dont know if adjusting it is possible/ would do me any good. Who's got the infos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HESHIANDET Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 your chain is loose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
48:16 Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 what up heshfolks!? hey, christmas made me fat too. i could probably play scrabble on my belly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
48:16 Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 back to real cycling please. indurain, kelly, merckx, ullrich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 click thumbs for larger view Hers and His http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r81/KoSprueOne/Bicycle/sprueone_20inch.jpg http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r81/KoSprueOne/Bicycle/sprueone_tenspeed.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For Placement Only Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 any of yous at that bike art show next to king kog last night? some kid got caugth catchin a tag on the bar across the street by the dude that runs the bar. said kid came back into the gallery with the bar owner storming in, hipsters chase out bar owner, bar owner and goons wait outside gallery, kid changes clothes, cops were about to come, so i left. didnt know if the kid made it out without being noticed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gat Bush Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 yea its yer chain dag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HESHIANDET Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 haha, 48 joining the fatty team! out of all those picyures im sure you ding dongs will sweat the picture of MI cause hes riding a crazzzyyyy cool pinny TRACK bike. OMFG!!!!! how sweet would that ride be as a chill around town commuter! :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 I'm gonna sweat that picture because he looks fucking ridiculous. Helmets like that, the little hats, the fucking clothes and the snooty ass know-it-alls are the sum toto of why I haven't entertained the idea of being some sort of competitive cyclist since my mother forced me to watch Breaking Away (and it was a brand new movie then). I did have a REALLY short affair with BMX racing. 1 race, broke my gooseneck, had a tantrum and slammed the bike, got back on and rode the final few feet steering with my hands on the forks, got 2nd, quit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KniggazInDemStreetz Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 My spanish teacher lent me a movie about the Paris-Roubaix. I think it was called A Sunday in Hell, or something, great movie, anyone seen it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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