nocturnus2

Get a load of this post on Wired magazine's Gadget Lab blog today:

https://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/0...nexplicab.html

Nietzsche

saw it here:

https://lockedcog.com/home1/2009/4/16...times-two.html

my semi rant here:

https://taylorwyant.tumblr.com/post/9...icle-on-fixies

Raiden

The first few gave me a slight chuckle, but the last two were a lame stretch. That brooks is insane.

craigcraigcraig

funny that when the guy writes that the top tube pad does not do much, they should just get a brake. In the picture the bike with the top tube pad has a brake.

CliftonGK1

I'll admit to having a Brooks on my ss/fg bike. I have them on all my bikes because I find them comfortable.

chadbrochill17

weak attempt at bike snobbery

B:H Pusher

i dont get what compels this guy to hate on all this stuff when most his reasons are purely aesthetic much like the creators of said "cred-machines"

mander

This:

At this point nothing the guy said bears further repetition.

Meepers

i got a little laugh out of it.

malpag3

A mild laugh at it, but it was pretty dumb.

I have spoke cards from alley cats that I had a lot of fun at. I dunno. They're conversation pieces.

ADSR

But everything he wrote about is explicable...

clink83

Alot of the things he mocked deserve to be mocked, but not for the reasons he stated. Yay for poorly researched oped peices!

aMull

Dumb.

elTwitcho

Seriously.

Of all the things worthy of bucketloads of scorn in the fixed culture, he picks five stupid attempts at bikesnobbery that just show he doesn't even know the first thing about what he's making fun of.

Abe Froman

Aerospoke wheels?
Top tube pads?
short ass handlebars?

These things get pointed out as being ridiculous almost daily on this forum. My only gripe about the article is it should have been written three or more years ago.

The article should have been about dudes riding bikes in girl jeans and doing nuts to stem skidz

SlowRoller

Exactly. I'm embarrassed for Wired. Way to be out in front of things!

juggleaddict

There we go. : ) All fixed; much better image.

juggleaddict

Not that anybody would rant about that being bad. . .

sp00ki

that would require a general understanding of things happening at the moment.
the "article's" author, unfortunately, was forced to resort to "insulting" the same things chubby bloggers have been insulting for years (as he probably either lives in a suburban college town or never leaves his apartment enough to know what actually happens around him).

though in his defense, it's tough to be an out of touch writer in the internet age. you're combating with actual events in real time for pertinence which can be really really tough... sorta reminds me (though on a much smaller, less culturally relevant scale) of the "hipster" article featured in adbusters (snicker, right?) a few months back.

there's actually very few better ways to illustrate your inability as a journalist than to recycle trite insults at the same cultural "phenomena" main stream media has been covering (while attempting objectivism, mind you) for the last half decade.

Johnny Nemo

The only thing worse than a fixie rider is a Dutch, townie rider.

ADSR

Beach cruisers are a horrible plague around here.

jim-bob

There is no shame in beach cruisers.

(The only singlespeed I saw last time I was in chico was the one my friend was riding. Hell, I was riding a geared mtb.)

RichinPeoria

Honestly ... these have more artistic content than many of the dog piles I've seen on bfss/fg...htfu and get back to work on yours

helloamerican

that guy is an obvious moron with very little observational tools.

great job on the bmx history lesson, seems to me the only reason people protect their top tubes these days is to PROTECT THEIR TOP TUBES, WE LOCK TO ****, DUH.

Ken Cox

I wrap my top tube with the same tape I use on my bars, so that I can lean my bike up against things without my bike slipping or getting scratched.