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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

i cant keep up with fixie fashion anymore.

[–] DirtyPair@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

what am i looking at here? it just looks like a normal bike?

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

The "handlebar" isn't a handlebar, but a seat post lol

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

The handlebar is a seatpost. See that thing on the right of it? That's where you'd attach a saddle

[–] GarfieldOfficial@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what the others are talking about. This looks like a normal bike to me as well? Maybe it’s different in their respective regions?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

Posts that land well in Brooklyn 2010 and nowhere else

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

Take a seat post, get a handle on yourself.

[–] ta00000@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I always get bullied for my fixie but it's just incredibly flat here and I have literally no reason to ever shift.

[–] Teapot@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I down shift every time I slow down. Accelerating up to speed is easier and faster. And my gear ratio is higher than what would be practical on a fixie, meaning my top speed is higher.

Still, there is something to say for the simplicity of a fixie

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fixies are fine, it's brakeless fixies that are bad which both the above picture and that entire subreddit are prime examples of.

You keep on rocking (unless...)

[–] ta00000@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait brakeless????? That's just a bad idea. Who thought of that?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue it spread from NYC bike messengers originally and they did that because they had to use their own bikes for the job, at which point taking the bike with the lowest amount of maintenance needed (i.e., brakeless fixie) does make sense, materially.

[–] ta00000@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That makes sense, but doesn't the skidding wear the tires much faster? And if your brakes break that doesn't stop you from delivering, you just don't have brakes now (until you're able to fix them) right?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

That makes sense, but doesn't the skidding wear the tires much faster?

Sure, but if you weren't doing it for the culture you'd keep that shit to a minimun and try to go with the flow more. There's some other considerations here, bike theft, all the other parts of a brake that aren't a brake part and could go wrong etc. My point is mainly that it wasn't birthed from being real fucking dumb, but real fucking poor.

And if your brakes break that doesn't stop you from delivering, you just don't have brakes now (until you're able to fix them) right?

Well if you don't need them, why have them in the first place?

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

I don't get the hate tbh, I'm nervous to ever ride one myself but you can get going SO FAST, and they're cheap and easy to maintain. I think people used to hate on brakeless ones as a hipster thing tho. I used to ride a single speed and had someone yell at me from their car something stupid because they thought it was fixed lol.