Big R

So as a balding middle-aged fixed-gear rider, I never really understood the proper definition of "hipster" as is so frequently used in this forum.

And then last week...it happened to me. I saw these two guys with heavy tatoos, stringy hair, no helmet, platform pedals and flat bars. Hit me like a ton of bricks "so that's what they're talking about"

Am I close?

[by the way...no judgement here, except for the lack of helmet]

traceur

nah not really

peabodypride

pixx ploz

idiq

Fixed.

1fluffhead

But these are my favorite type of hipsters

peabodypride

trying way too hard. go join die prinzen.

bbattle

Did they look like the guys in this pic?




Did their bikes look like these?


{Alabama hipsters} well, except for the old balding guys.

peabodypride

none of them look like hipsters at all. failthread.

idiq

I've always wanted to cut off branches on a tree like that to get bikes. Apparently they don't lock them to the tree though, so that would be unnecessary.

The only one in question would be the one with the black cycling cap, but he's not even sporting cut-offs. I would say they fit into the 'uber-fixed scene' well enough though.

sfcrossrider

Come to SF... we're infested with them. In all fairness some of my best friends are hipsters. I'm more crosstrash/singlespeedscum, but I race track, so go figure. I also don't wear women's jeans, and 80s shirts.

traceur

yeah cuz all skinny jeans are womens jeans

Aeroplane

It's been done to death, but it bears repeating:

sfcrossrider

No, but that's not what i said now is it?

Raleigh531

I believe it's just a word people use in order to avoid being classified. I think the idea is, "whatever a hipster is, I'm not it..." But the definition is left purposely vague so that it can always be molded to each person's needed use.

~Stuart~

Wiki has the answer but i didn't see aerospoke in there

jet sanchEz

How old is middle-aged? I am 36 and ride a GT track with gold deep-Vs, which is probably the picture-definition of a hipster track bike. I always think of middle-aged as being in your 40s, is that right?

Yoshi

I don't think most of the people here really know what a hipster is.

Trust me, a tattooed guy in cut-off shorts and a cycling cap on a fixed-gear is not a hipster. Not even close.

Sixty Fiver

I plan to live past 100 so don't consider being 42 to be middle aged and whatever a hipster is, I ain't it.

I just finished building up my new rear wheel with a 36/4 on a Formula hub and a Vuelta Tempest to match my front wheel (which needs a high flange hub now).

This is what the anti-hipster rides even if he's not sure what defines a hipster...

ZiP0082

one less car sticker = hipster

roadfix

I am here to invalidate this thread.

Jabba Degrassi

yeah d00d all the hipsterest hipsters are sporting lycra short and jelly belly jerseys these dayz.......

ph.

hipsters wear every colour in the spectrum with every print imaginable and claim it doesnt clash.

having said that, they arnt that bad. but then again everyone on this site hates everyone else so i know someone is going to hate me for poking fun at hipsters, while another person will hate me for saying i am friends with some.

lame.

ph.

you stole the words right out of my head
bravo! haha

Sixty Fiver

It also says "One More Bike" and "Death Penalty For Bike Thieves" and came from Dave's Bike Dump in Ottawa... https://www.bikedump.com/ and you can print off a copy for yourself if ya want.

Mine is affixed with clear packing tape.

That makes me a Fred.

bbattle

Exactly. So everyone's definition will be different.

"Hipster is in the eye of the beerholder."