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Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 06:37:21 No.1660738 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1660739 >>1660750 >>1660856 >>1660993 >>1661222 >>1661263 >>1661552

>youtube reccomendation
>5 reasons why people hate fixed gears
Imo, 1-5 reasons is that you're a complete bitch. Learn to skid/or buy brakes, condition yourself without "track" gearing, learn how to use momentum and muscle strength, and finally ride your fucking bike. You'll build muscle and stamina, you'll get used to it faster than you think.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 06:39:30 No.1660739 Report

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>>1660738
AND people that hate them get really high gear ratios and are pedaling at full max at 20mph, the gearing is very crucial to making them better to ride. I rode a 13t fixed cog on my rear wheel/hub, and a 52t chainring on my crank. I had no problems, but it would suck for some who never rode a fixed gear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 06:45:26 No.1660741 Report

Quoted By: >>1661526

Look m8
My whole town is in a hillside
Fixies only work in one directoion here, you either climb and spin the shit out of your knees when going down, or you gear for going down and don't even try climbing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 06:57:08 No.1660746 Report

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>google showed me an ad that I didn't like and I decided to come here to complain instead of anywhere that makes sense

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 07:01:12 No.1660750 Report

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>>1660738
but anon, i'm not too retarded to maintain a derailleur and some thumbies

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 11:53:34 No.1660856 Report

Quoted By: >>1660864

>>1660738
I had a fixie around 2007-2008 I think? yeah I got used to it. I actually got stockholm syndrome and I talked like that. then after a couple of years I borrowed someone else's bike and realized I was just being an idiot. sold it to a sucker who was behind the times and I never looked back.

what I want to know is where the fuck are people still riding fixies in 2021? is this a retro-ironic thing? mid 2000s is now cool again? what is going on?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 12:18:10 No.1660864 Report

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>>1660856
everywhere? the fact that you outgrew them doesn't mean everyone else did

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 12:23:35 No.1660865 Report

Quoted By: >>1660868

What do you do when you come to a hill that is more than 2%?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 12:25:42 No.1660868 Report

Quoted By: >>1660876 >>1660988

>>1660865
you git gud

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 12:46:45 No.1660876 Report

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>>1660868
Based

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 18:24:56 No.1660988 Report

Quoted By: >>1660999 >>1661011 >>1661038

>>1660868
What about a hill that is more than 10%

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 18:27:51 No.1660993 Report

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>>1660738
hipster

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 18:39:17 No.1660999 Report

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>>1660988
you throw your meme mobile away and buy a proper bike with 1-1 low ratio and a 2x10 drivetrain

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 18:52:33 No.1661011 Report

Quoted By: >>1661019

>>1660988

lol i've done 30%, only physically weak people hate on riding fixed gear bikes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 19:11:44 No.1661019 Report

Quoted By: >>1661027

>>1661011
how much elevation do you do in a normal week?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 19:32:38 No.1661027 Report

Quoted By: >>1661049

>>1661019
>how much elevation do you do in a

Not much probably around 250 to 500m with 1000m being the most. There's just a lot of short steep hills where I live.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 19:52:55 No.1661038 Report

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>>1660988
motorcycle

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 20:15:39 No.1661049 Report

Quoted By: >>1661078

>>1661027
I mean over a 7 day period not on your daily ride

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 21:46:48 No.1661078 Report

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>>1661049

If you want a hard number 700m.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 22:29:22 No.1661101 Report

Quoted By: >>1661107

Fuck fixed gear. Singlespeed actually makes sense though for simplicity and reliability.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 22:35:40 No.1661103 Report

Quoted By: >>1661235

Honestly if there's going to be another hipster bike phase past 2021 it's gonna be in the USA with 80s/90s rigid mtbs. Bring back 26" baby! Oooh yeah!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 22:37:33 No.1661107 Report

Quoted By: >>1661109

>>1661101
If you're sacrificing gears anyway, might as well go fixed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 22:38:50 No.1661109 Report

Quoted By: >>1661417 >>1661579

>>1661107
I'd like to coast and go fast downhill so no thanks.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO cat and bicycle.jpg, 2MiB, 3024x4032

Anonymous Mon 31 May 2021 22:45:03 No.1661113 Report

Quoted By: >>1661265 >>1661580

hey, a track bike thread!!

i bought my first trackie in 2011 while working as a courier, during the premium rush "fixie" culture explosion. i stuck with it and gradually upgraded my whip, even when track bikes became uncool again. nowadays i feel like track bikes are way less trendy and i dont see as many hipster-y poser type cyclists riding fixed bikes for fashion.

yes, they require a high level of technical proficiency to ride effectively. i have a million scars from eating shit on my track bike, and even shattered my ankle after a particularly nasty training accident.

i think the new meme has become gravel, trail, and cross bikes that can handle terrain and roads equally well, and i see guys with flared drop bars, handlebar bags, and big 32c gumwall tires on this new trend all the time. ultimately i think finding your niche in ANY hobby is cool and i respect all "serious" cyclists equally, regardless of their subgenre of cycling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 01:28:01 No.1661186 Report

Quoted By: >>1661251

fixies are for faggots. 2010 wants its gimmick back. feel free turn in your PBR as well

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 02:15:03 No.1661222 Report

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>>1660738
Sounds rough on the knees

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 02:36:59 No.1661235 Report

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>>1661103
Too safe. I think it's going to be instagram contrarians embracing electric road bikes "ironically"

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 03:34:46 No.1661251 Report

Quoted By: >>1661259

>>1661186

I could probably break your face if I ever met you in real life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 04:00:56 No.1661259 Report

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>>1661251
cool i don't care. there's always someone stronger than you out in the world; so what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 04:10:07 No.1661263 Report

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>>1660738
A. You're a dick
2. I don't respect you

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 04:12:26 No.1661265 Report

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>>1661113
>i see guys with flared drop bars, handlebar bags, and big 32c gumwall tires on this new trend all the time
they're the exact same guys who were riding chinesium track bikes 10 years ago lol. I like your bike tho, never was for me since i am basically the poor version of a fred, but it looks like it would be pretty fun

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 11:56:27 No.1661415 Report

Quoted By: >>1661418

it seems like track bikes live rent free in /n/ incels heads, whats about them that make the 4chan school shooter-faced chuds seethe so much?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 12:08:08 No.1661417 Report

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>>1661109
if you can realistically do more than like 50 km/h you should probably have gears anyway

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 12:14:55 No.1661418 Report

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>>1661415
excuse me mister you dropped a buzzword

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 14:45:12 No.1661459 Report

Quoted By: >>1661477 >>1661530 >>1661620

people hate fixed gears because people think fixie = track in urban settings so they dont run brakes and end up killing people or getting themselves killed, running reds because they dont know how to stop ect.

if you run brakeless you either dont go fast or are a child making it worse for literally everyone else

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 15:27:31 No.1661477 Report

Quoted By: >>1661530

>>1661459
this
brakes are obviously an important part of performance in cycling too not just in motorsport
brakeless hasn't been "cool" since the time of hipster cringe culture with colorful rims etc
even reddit doesn't hate on brakes, a rear brake could maybe get a comment or two but that's like if it's a nice bike that attracts jealousy or high levels of critique or maybe if it's with flat bar levers on a drop bar in which case drop levers would make more sense
the OG fixed gear tour de france riders rode with brakes

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 16:28:30 No.1661526 Report

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>>1660741
Wellington?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 16:31:01 No.1661530 Report

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>>1661477
>>1661459
riding without brakes =/= hating on brakes
its true that riding brakeless you are slower if you are not willing to endanger yourself or others, but thats it. if i want to "race" i put a clamp on front brake, thinking about a custom drilled fork too since the dia compe clamps looks fugly but outside of those times where i want to go fast i'm perfectly fine cruising around brakeless, if you cant thats fine, but dont put it like its us hating on brakes, its more like you hating on brakeless taking some drug addicted lefty faggot with no respect for anything as an example, its just like cagie blaming cyclist as a whole for a group of retarded sunday "racers"who form a peloton in the middle of the open street and block traffic for no reason at all

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 17:00:16 No.1661552 Report

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>>1660738
Is this seriously the best picture you could get to defend fixi?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 18:17:41 No.1661579 Report

Quoted By: >>1661581

>>1661109
Fair enough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 18:19:13 No.1661580 Report

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>>1661113
...
That bike looks worse in the real world than it did in the marketing photos.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 18:25:04 No.1661581 Report

Quoted By: >>1661589

>>1661579
he doesn't know what it's like to go fast, on a road bike you could still be pedaling to 60+ km/h, his hills if he's even considering a singlespeed probably aren't steep enough to justify a coasting descent

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 18:36:28 No.1661589 Report

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>>1661581
Meh. Let people like what they like. If they like to coast down gentle slopes, that's fine by me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jun 2021 19:15:33 No.1661620 Report

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>>1661459

You can still stop without having mounted brakes on a fixed gear bike, where did this notion that people run reds because they can't stop come from?

I love that every fixed gear thread ends up turning into that people who mock the fixed geared bikes are the ones who never ridden one for considerable amount of time. It's like people who don't ride mtb making mocking people who ride a hardtail because you have to be more cautious when you ride.

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