there is? this thread is ancient, so I don't remember it all that well, but it seems to me anyone that obviously understands and is into bikes was down for fixed or whatever. weekend warriors ranting about "hipsters riding bikes with no brakes!!1!!" don't really count.
nice set-up, by the way.
i was trying to be tongue in cheek, but i think at the start of the thread there was some "only hipsters ride fixed gear bikes".
but thanks btw, you get that masi built yet?
and to whomever posted that all city crank and chain ring - its an awesome crank set
Still probably a week away - waiting on some cranks in the mail, been trying desperately to find a NOS
pair of DK "Iron Cross" platform pedals (was on the phone with bike shops in Arkansas, Philly and California after some deep googling the other day, but no dice) but may settle for something else soon, and the wheels I have I bought second hand and need some spoke replacement and to be trued.
also not sure I want the bars that were in the deal for the frame - I was initially seduced by the "bullhorn" design but after seeing them in the chrome I'm remembering I like my bars straight and somewhere around 8 inches across haha. I may just chop them.
went to the bikesnobNYC book reading on Saturday. If you read his blog, you'd like the book; it's not just some other bloggerbooks, where they just press "print." I bought two.
I made his blog:
storm shadow or some shit wtf?
looks like they went on a ride afterwards, pretty much right back to my apartment... still broken, I took the bus.
and to whomever posted that all city crank and chain ring - its an awesome crank set
Yeah that was me. Real excited to get that thing on.
Unfortunately I've been out of commission while nursing a fractured scapula back to health. I was riding home on an unlit road from a buddy's after a couple brews. The story I've been telling people is that I hit a cat.
I went back after the fall and found no rocks, potholes or other reasons for being tossed 10 feet. My bike was left unharmed with the exception of some scratches on the bar tape so I have mo idea what really happened.
After four weeks of being off the whip you guys are making me extremely jealous. I got a mix of stir-crazy and cabin fever that won't go away till I'm healed up in early July.
Dude is that a cap brim or did you break your cheekbones too?
I look at myself every day, and I have no idea how the pic turned out like that. It is me, I have my paint-on beard and a ballcap and my jacket was on my shoulder, and that's where I was standing (quick getaway- and look at the rest of those freaks- related), but I don't know...maybe I'm a demon or a vampYre or something, and it only shows up on camera. I can't figure out where my nose is, or which way I'm looking, or why my beard goes all the way up over my whole face like one of those mexican wolf boys.
I don't remember wearing a ski mask, is all I'm saying...
the other day on a break, my friend let me ride his fuji track pro - i just turned in a bunch of records to facilitate the cost of that frame. hello alloy.
Hey all lurker here and brand new to bikes. I was hoping someone here could tell me where I shoud start--hybrid or mountain. I live in philly and want to start biking from here to there, but also may want to ride off the road when I have the chance--light trail bike paths (no mountain dew shit). I thought I wanted a hybrid, then someone said go mountain bike, it works on road fine and keeps your options open. I will mostly be in the city with it though. Feedback would be helpful, even any heads up what to look for, brands all of that...
Hey all lurker here and brand new to bikes. I was hoping someone here could tell me where I shoud start--hybrid or mountain. I live in philly and want to start biking from here to there, but also may want to ride off the road when I have the chance--light trail bike paths (no mountain dew shit). I thought I wanted a hybrid, then someone said go mountain bike, it works on road fine and keeps your options open. I will mostly be in the city with it though. Feedback would be helpful, even any heads up what to look for, brands all of that...
same advice as in this thread, from me: hit up CL for that sub-200 dollar rigid mountainbike. Can't go really go too wrong. Comfortable durable and cheap. Ride it around. It'll work.
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Funny this thread came up, I've just pulled my bike out of mothballs and I'm really falling in love with the sport all over again. I'll start out with the gear porn, this is my 1991 Fisher Paragon:
I've put thousands of miles on this bike, from '92 to '95 I didn't have a car so this was my primary mode of transportation. I've worn out a lot of parts over the years, I've replaced both derailleurs, the crank set, the brake levers and shifters, both wheels, the pedals, the crank-set, a couple of bottom brackets, the seat post and at least three saddles. You can keep your full suspensions and carbon fiber frames, a good steel bike has served me well. My only complaint is that it has a 1 1/4" Threaded Headset, which was pretty rare at the time so often bike shops wouldn't have the correct size wrench to work on it.
I don't think anybody who actually knows anything about bikes would hate on fixies, they are a lot of fun but I've grown too old and cautious to ride one in an urban setting.
I've never had an adult bicycle in my life. Except taking a break during college, I've been involved with bmx since I was 10.
This is my flatland bike. It is an Ares Ashura. I only have like $50 invested in it. Everything else was through hook ups or product that was reviewed when I ran an on-line bmx magazine.
If you are over 30, in Austin and involved in bmx, you have to own a 24 cruiser. I got a good deal on it. This is my ride to the coffee shop, run the neighborhood, ride to the store bike.
Not pictured is my Standard Lengthy that was my street/park bike that is about halfway built, missing cranks and a front wheel.
I have been contemplating an adult bike, but I just don't see them as fun to ride.
I have been contemplating an adult bike, but I just don't see them as fun to ride.
this is true. however, if you can get away from any bmx people who may make fun of you, mountainbikes are great.
also, my cruiser is super fun to ride, but because of it, I cannot ride any bikes right now...so there's that...
if I were able to ride trails like my bmx friends, I probably wouldn't ever touch any other kind of bike, but I cannot...just like I started snowboarding to pretend to be Gonz skateboarding, MTB can make me feel like a BMXer... I'm too old to pay the dues, honestly. The high speed hiking aspect of MTB is perfect, when you add a little squish and pretend you're boosting on a beemer...but I completely understand not requiring an adult bike...
If you are over 30, in Austin and involved in bmx, you have to own a 24 cruiser. I got a good deal on it. This is my ride to the coffee shop, run the neighborhood, ride to the store bike.
when I was heavy into BMX in my mid-20's I bought a 24" to do courier work on.
dudes thought I was insane doing 6-mile round-trip deliveries on a BMX, and I did burn out on it after a while and switched to a track bike for deliveries, but damn that period of riding a 24" 8 hours a day through the city was sick. I could throw that thing around like crazy ... I got all jacked ... and my 20" seemed so much lighter when I would ride it that I got iller on that, too.
Its a fixed gear/track bike. I wanted one for a year but couldn't afford it. I was going on a trip to japan so i thought i'd wait and find a keirin njs frame and do it right. Im so happy i waited.
just walked in from the oarmdoc. X-rays are not awesome. Lunate bone, which was the biggest worry after dislocation, is getting blood and healing. Scaphoid break is not as happy. While it is fusing and healing, the pins aren't ready to come out. Four more weeks in a fucking cast. I am not in a good mood.
man oh man, the Mavic Kysrium Elite wheels I bought turned out to be a major hassle and kept me from having my bike for a month. I bought the set of wheels from a friend-of-a-friend at a yard sale for only $5 (they originally retailed for around $645 more than that), so I didn't mind throwing a few bucks into them, and they "just needed" 1 spoke replaced on each and skewers. The spokes weren't easily available. Mavic wanted me to buy a full set of 20 for $80 or nothing, so I spent forever trying to find a retailer that sold them in smaller quantities ... I only found one in the world, in the UK, and they wouldn't ship to the US. So I decided to just buy the set from Mavic. Then they sent the complete wrong ones. After returning those, they took forever to send the right ones. THEN we found out you need a special tool to work on these spokes from Mavic, that they never mentioned in all this back-and-forth going on. So I had to buy the tool and wait for that. Finally, almost a month after getting started on the build, I had my bike.
I also ended up taking off the Nitto bullhorn bars I had originally built it with, within 24 hours of finishing it - I HATED riding with those bars. I need BMX-style riding, it's why I build and ride track frames, I need to be riding over the back wheel, lifting the front end off the ground with flicks of the wrist. All that drop bar action is for the birds. I originally was going to (and still may) mount some sweet low-profile flatland bars on it, but the size was no match on the ones available, and I wanted to RIDE NOW so I got the burly downhill bars shown.
oh, and immediately upon riding, it was clear the bearings in the rear hub of those cursed phucking Mavic wheels are shot, it makes a loud creaking ... I hate noise on my bike, especially one that I just built 3 days ago. Luckily, knock-off bearing packs can be had on eBay for 10% the cost of Mavic branded ones.
man oh man, the Mavic Kysrium Elite wheels I bought turned out to be a major hassle and kept me from having my bike for a month. I bought the set of wheels from a friend-of-a-friend at a yard sale for only $5 (they originally retailed for around $645 more than that), so I didn't mind throwing a few bucks into them, and they "just needed" 1 spoke replaced on each and skewers. The spokes weren't easily available. Mavic wanted me to buy a full set of 20 for $80 or nothing, so I spent forever trying to find a retailer that sold them in smaller quantities ... I only found one in the world, in the UK, and they wouldn't ship to the US. So I decided to just buy the set from Mavic. Then they sent the complete wrong ones. After returning those, they took forever to send the right ones. THEN we found out you need a special tool to work on these spokes from Mavic, that they never mentioned in all this back-and-forth going on. So I had to buy the tool and wait for that. Finally, almost a month after getting started on the build, I had my bike.
I also ended up taking off the Nitto bullhorn bars I had originally built it with, within 24 hours of finishing it - I HATED riding with those bars. I need BMX-style riding, it's why I build and ride track frames, I need to be riding over the back wheel, lifting the front end off the ground with flicks of the wrist. All that drop bar action is for the birds. I originally was going to (and still may) mount some sweet low-profile flatland bars on it, but the size was no match on the ones available, and I wanted to RIDE NOW so I got the burly downhill bars shown.
oh, and immediately upon riding, it was clear the bearings in the rear hub of those cursed phucking Mavic wheels are shot, it makes a loud creaking ... I hate noise on my bike, especially one that I just built 3 days ago. Luckily, knock-off bearing packs can be had on eBay for 10% the cost of Mavic branded ones.
ACTION SHOT:
Hot!
jesus, you paid five bucks for that wheelset? It came out really nice. I'dstill have been annoyed about the tool and all that runaround, but 5 bucks for that wheel set is pretty much the best bargain you're gonna see for the next 5 - 10 years. Congrats on that though for sure
I feel you on the BMX bars, my next build up will have bmx bars. I'm trying to find a nice sturdy frame along the lines of the volume cutter on the cheap or maybe an IRO. I want to buy a used frame though because the plan is to powder coat and go for a blue 'n cream (glaciers of ice rel) color scheme.
But i love my drops on that rush. so they'll stay.
that came out lookin super nice. i do you not put straps on your pedals? i couldnt tell in the photo. I'm really diging these Masi frames though, a buddy of mine just picked up one about a month ago from a shop in town.
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i was trying to be tongue in cheek, but i think at the start of the thread there was some "only hipsters ride fixed gear bikes".
but thanks btw, you get that masi built yet?
and to whomever posted that all city crank and chain ring - its an awesome crank set
Still probably a week away - waiting on some cranks in the mail, been trying desperately to find a NOS
pair of DK "Iron Cross" platform pedals (was on the phone with bike shops in Arkansas, Philly and California after some deep googling the other day, but no dice) but may settle for something else soon, and the wheels I have I bought second hand and need some spoke replacement and to be trued.
also not sure I want the bars that were in the deal for the frame - I was initially seduced by the "bullhorn" design but after seeing them in the chrome I'm remembering I like my bars straight and somewhere around 8 inches across haha. I may just chop them.
:feelin_it:
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I made his blog:
storm shadow or some shit wtf?
looks like they went on a ride afterwards, pretty much right back to my apartment... still broken, I took the bus.
Yeah that was me. Real excited to get that thing on.
Unfortunately I've been out of commission while nursing a fractured scapula back to health. I was riding home on an unlit road from a buddy's after a couple brews. The story I've been telling people is that I hit a cat.
I went back after the fall and found no rocks, potholes or other reasons for being tossed 10 feet. My bike was left unharmed with the exception of some scratches on the bar tape so I have mo idea what really happened.
After four weeks of being off the whip you guys are making me extremely jealous. I got a mix of stir-crazy and cabin fever that won't go away till I'm healed up in early July.
I look at myself every day, and I have no idea how the pic turned out like that. It is me, I have my paint-on beard and a ballcap and my jacket was on my shoulder, and that's where I was standing (quick getaway- and look at the rest of those freaks- related), but I don't know...maybe I'm a demon or a vampYre or something, and it only shows up on camera. I can't figure out where my nose is, or which way I'm looking, or why my beard goes all the way up over my whole face like one of those mexican wolf boys.
I don't remember wearing a ski mask, is all I'm saying...
same advice as in this thread, from me: hit up CL for that sub-200 dollar rigid mountainbike. Can't go really go too wrong. Comfortable durable and cheap. Ride it around. It'll work.
I've put thousands of miles on this bike, from '92 to '95 I didn't have a car so this was my primary mode of transportation. I've worn out a lot of parts over the years, I've replaced both derailleurs, the crank set, the brake levers and shifters, both wheels, the pedals, the crank-set, a couple of bottom brackets, the seat post and at least three saddles. You can keep your full suspensions and carbon fiber frames, a good steel bike has served me well. My only complaint is that it has a 1 1/4" Threaded Headset, which was pretty rare at the time so often bike shops wouldn't have the correct size wrench to work on it.
I don't think anybody who actually knows anything about bikes would hate on fixies, they are a lot of fun but I've grown too old and cautious to ride one in an urban setting.
This is my flatland bike. It is an Ares Ashura. I only have like $50 invested in it. Everything else was through hook ups or product that was reviewed when I ran an on-line bmx magazine.
If you are over 30, in Austin and involved in bmx, you have to own a 24 cruiser. I got a good deal on it. This is my ride to the coffee shop, run the neighborhood, ride to the store bike.
Not pictured is my Standard Lengthy that was my street/park bike that is about halfway built, missing cranks and a front wheel.
I have been contemplating an adult bike, but I just don't see them as fun to ride.
After a trip to Osaka and 6 weeks of waiting i finally got my new bike. Just got to hook the breaks up.
this is true. however, if you can get away from any bmx people who may make fun of you, mountainbikes are great.
also, my cruiser is super fun to ride, but because of it, I cannot ride any bikes right now...so there's that...
if I were able to ride trails like my bmx friends, I probably wouldn't ever touch any other kind of bike, but I cannot...just like I started snowboarding to pretend to be Gonz skateboarding, MTB can make me feel like a BMXer... I'm too old to pay the dues, honestly. The high speed hiking aspect of MTB is perfect, when you add a little squish and pretend you're boosting on a beemer...but I completely understand not requiring an adult bike...
That thing is beautiful. You dont need brakes - keep it simple.
when I was heavy into BMX in my mid-20's I bought a 24" to do courier work on.
dudes thought I was insane doing 6-mile round-trip deliveries on a BMX, and I did burn out on it after a while and switched to a track bike for deliveries, but damn that period of riding a 24" 8 hours a day through the city was sick. I could throw that thing around like crazy ... I got all jacked ... and my 20" seemed so much lighter when I would ride it that I got iller on that, too.
Its a fixed gear/track bike. I wanted one for a year but couldn't afford it. I was going on a trip to japan so i thought i'd wait and find a keirin njs frame and do it right. Im so happy i waited.
nwcbmxusa from a man on Vimeo.
at least it cracks me up.
Still on the vase record nation sofa?
and, it's finally summer here. heat wave.
fuck.
THANKS FOR ASKING!!!!
and LOL, no. I can hit all the keys now.
and no pain to speak of. Told the doc I didn't want any more pills, even though they're record-trading-currency.
man oh man, the Mavic Kysrium Elite wheels I bought turned out to be a major hassle and kept me from having my bike for a month. I bought the set of wheels from a friend-of-a-friend at a yard sale for only $5 (they originally retailed for around $645 more than that), so I didn't mind throwing a few bucks into them, and they "just needed" 1 spoke replaced on each and skewers. The spokes weren't easily available. Mavic wanted me to buy a full set of 20 for $80 or nothing, so I spent forever trying to find a retailer that sold them in smaller quantities ... I only found one in the world, in the UK, and they wouldn't ship to the US. So I decided to just buy the set from Mavic. Then they sent the complete wrong ones. After returning those, they took forever to send the right ones. THEN we found out you need a special tool to work on these spokes from Mavic, that they never mentioned in all this back-and-forth going on. So I had to buy the tool and wait for that. Finally, almost a month after getting started on the build, I had my bike.
I also ended up taking off the Nitto bullhorn bars I had originally built it with, within 24 hours of finishing it - I HATED riding with those bars. I need BMX-style riding, it's why I build and ride track frames, I need to be riding over the back wheel, lifting the front end off the ground with flicks of the wrist. All that drop bar action is for the birds. I originally was going to (and still may) mount some sweet low-profile flatland bars on it, but the size was no match on the ones available, and I wanted to RIDE NOW so I got the burly downhill bars shown.
oh, and immediately upon riding, it was clear the bearings in the rear hub of those cursed phucking Mavic wheels are shot, it makes a loud creaking ... I hate noise on my bike, especially one that I just built 3 days ago. Luckily, knock-off bearing packs can be had on eBay for 10% the cost of Mavic branded ones.
ACTION SHOT:
Here's a shot of my friend riding it. He could barely touch the pedals.
Hot!
jesus, you paid five bucks for that wheelset? It came out really nice. I'dstill have been annoyed about the tool and all that runaround, but 5 bucks for that wheel set is pretty much the best bargain you're gonna see for the next 5 - 10 years. Congrats on that though for sure
I feel you on the BMX bars, my next build up will have bmx bars. I'm trying to find a nice sturdy frame along the lines of the volume cutter on the cheap or maybe an IRO. I want to buy a used frame though because the plan is to powder coat and go for a blue 'n cream (glaciers of ice rel) color scheme.
But i love my drops on that rush. so they'll stay.
that came out lookin super nice. i do you not put straps on your pedals? i couldnt tell in the photo. I'm really diging these Masi frames though, a buddy of mine just picked up one about a month ago from a shop in town.