Relationship of Cars and Fixed Gear bicycles
06-25-09, 11:54 AM
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On weekends, I shoot photos for some import tuner scene websites, Hondas mostly... I've also noticed the import guys jumping on the fixed gear bandwagon. They're starting to put bike racks, complete with bikes, on the roofs of their show cars, also riding around the pits at races on fixies. A couple months ago Super Street magazine had a whole page with pics of fixed gear bikes. It's definitely a trend right now, at least in So-Cal.
06-26-09, 08:15 AM
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My love of my life, my old '97 Eclipse GSX.
Apexi front mount, Greddy 13 row oil cooler, 6 bolt swap, JIC FLT A2's tuned by Road Race Engineering, Bride Zeta 3, Autopower rollbar, Ray's Gram Lights 57C, Sheppard Racing built transmission, big T28, DSMLink, a zillion Greddy gauges, Momo wheel, Apexi downpipe/exhaust, Zeitronix wideband, no AC, no cruise control, Greddy 660s, ported O2, SARD Fuel Pressure regulator, ACT2600 clutch... blah blah blah.... I probably forgot a few things somewhere.
I spent every penny I owned on this car and raced it in time trials with Corvettes of Massachusetts series at Limerock/NHMS.
It's sitting in my parents garage with two blown shocks and needs an EVO brake kit put on (the stock brakes suffer from heavy knockback unless you're changing rotors all the time) plus a front LSD (and maybe a good rear one) it to be competitive with STi's and EVOs as it would fry the tires at NHMS on the uphill.
Never dynoed it, have a very conservative estimate of around 350 HP.
.... And then I moved out of my parents house, the car got too unruly to drive on the street, and I couldn't honestly afford a tow vehicle (The car broke once at Limerock park and I had a 650 dollar tow bill).
Now I race bikes instead of cars because it's cheaper (somewhat) and I know I can always race cars, versus my prime in bicycles being right now.
06-26-09, 11:04 AM
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Bikes, Music gear (Guitars, Synthesizers, and Tin Whistles, mxers, etc), and Photo gear are my obsessions.
Also guns and quality forged antique and modern combat swords.
All of the above are expensive obsessions, I can tell you!
Also guns and quality forged antique and modern combat swords.
All of the above are expensive obsessions, I can tell you!
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06-26-09, 11:17 AM
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I used to have a couple of Nissan 240sx's (one was turbo), a Datsun 510, and a few others. Now I'm married and bikes are way cheaper, better on the environment, better for your health, easier to fix, umm bikes are better in just about every way. They will be perfect when they get A/C 
06-26-09, 11:32 AM
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Certain hobbies fester certain personalities. FG bikes, in my opinion attract a "creative personality".
Creative people express themselves in different ways...some thru art, bikes, cars, etc...
I think there are more people on this site that have a relationship to PHOTOGRAPHY than there are to cars.
Creative people express themselves in different ways...some thru art, bikes, cars, etc...
I think there are more people on this site that have a relationship to PHOTOGRAPHY than there are to cars.
06-26-09, 05:22 PM
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that's more of a west coast thing. asians with spikey hair and a bad hype-habit chillin' with their bros out in Cali, more often than not. but the white kids in the 'burbs will pick up on it as well. it's all just conspicuous consumerism and they've moved onto the next fad that they think will get them some teenpuss.
I think they jumped the shark with Fast and Furious 3.
Or when I found this: https://www.modenstudios.com/realricers.html
06-26-09, 05:25 PM
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"Invest" means something like "give up in exchange for future advantage". There's no requirement for that future advantage to be in the form of monetary gain.
The return on investment is exactly what you guessed it is: cool points and social status or, as psirue concisely put it, "teenpuss".
$3K into your civic will get you very little admiration and teenpuss.
$3K in your bike will get lots more ooh's and ahh's, in addition to teenpuss.
Thus, greater return (ooh's, ahh's, teenpuss) on investment ($3K).
The return on investment is exactly what you guessed it is: cool points and social status or, as psirue concisely put it, "teenpuss".
$3K into your civic will get you very little admiration and teenpuss.
$3K in your bike will get lots more ooh's and ahh's, in addition to teenpuss.
Thus, greater return (ooh's, ahh's, teenpuss) on investment ($3K).
Looks like a lot of white guys invested in beer bongs and inner tubes.
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06-26-09, 07:11 PM
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06-27-09, 07:32 AM
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I love cars, I'm a Honda guy for life. I gave mine up due to the high rate of theft, my 89 CRX got stolen with my Rush Hour in the back!
I live in Chicago, and one of my best friends tunes Honda Challenge cars for a living. The rich ***** kids just jump on the bandwagon, this kid i know has pretty track bikes and just built up a crazy road bike too. He doesn't ride, they are like skateboards, or even better Nike shoes...Another is on a pricey Bianchi.....in sandals...wow. But we like to race, cars bikes, Orange Mocha Frappachinos, ect.
I got back into bikes a few years back because i was always breaking stuff on my CRX. I build my cars to drive! I drove the crap out of that car, when it broke there was my reliable track bike. The economy had a little to do with it too, I'm broke...ha ha. I don't wanna give Mayor Daley any more money. I will build up another car when the time is right tho, an EF9 Civic with a healthy single cam motor. I guess priority changes, no more Type R motors for me.
I'm also half Japanese, its a culture thing too i guess...
I live in Chicago, and one of my best friends tunes Honda Challenge cars for a living. The rich ***** kids just jump on the bandwagon, this kid i know has pretty track bikes and just built up a crazy road bike too. He doesn't ride, they are like skateboards, or even better Nike shoes...Another is on a pricey Bianchi.....in sandals...wow. But we like to race, cars bikes, Orange Mocha Frappachinos, ect.
I got back into bikes a few years back because i was always breaking stuff on my CRX. I build my cars to drive! I drove the crap out of that car, when it broke there was my reliable track bike. The economy had a little to do with it too, I'm broke...ha ha. I don't wanna give Mayor Daley any more money. I will build up another car when the time is right tho, an EF9 Civic with a healthy single cam motor. I guess priority changes, no more Type R motors for me.
I'm also half Japanese, its a culture thing too i guess...
06-27-09, 07:50 AM
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What you are all talking about is nothing new. Back in the day, before Acuras, when a Honda Civic looked like this ....
We used to take old VW bugs and make them very fast and look like this ...
We had a lot more in common with the current fixed gear cycling subculture than the present day Honda/Nissan/Acura people of today. A lot more reverence for all things old-school, very purist, endless debates over aesthetics and whether or not certain modifications were iconoclastic - "I can't believe he's going to de-chrome and de-badge a 56 oval window" We had the same kind of objects of ridicule as aerospokes and risers and the same "cool" things that everyone copied.
Personally, I've found the two subcultures to be fascinatingly similar.
We used to take old VW bugs and make them very fast and look like this ...
We had a lot more in common with the current fixed gear cycling subculture than the present day Honda/Nissan/Acura people of today. A lot more reverence for all things old-school, very purist, endless debates over aesthetics and whether or not certain modifications were iconoclastic - "I can't believe he's going to de-chrome and de-badge a 56 oval window" We had the same kind of objects of ridicule as aerospokes and risers and the same "cool" things that everyone copied.
Personally, I've found the two subcultures to be fascinatingly similar.
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06-28-09, 02:33 AM
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That Evo is very very nice. Makes me wish I put NT03s on mine instead of FN01R-C. It also makes me wish I didn't sell it.
06-28-09, 04:11 AM
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Reminiscing...
When I came across this thread I remembered I had a 92 hyundai parked a block and a half over under a huge old oak tree...ran great. good mileage. cheap maintenance. the city towed it off because I didn't drive it ever. I didn't know for months. It hardley ever rains here and I just forgot about it. Now the only thin I have to work on is working on my bikes. Working on my bikes and maybe learning how to play the drums.
06-28-09, 09:39 PM
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