I'd certainly never say that all 20-somethings with tattoos are pricks. Not even all 20'somethings with tattoos, tight cutoffs, and fixed gear bikes. (by the way, I'm 20-something, too) If you don't behave like a moron on the road, then I'm not talking about you. But you can't deny that there is a certain culture of imitating messengers and getting pissy at authority that surrounds the fixed gear image, even if you don't buy into it. Although, I belive that aspect of it is less central than it used to be as fixed gear bikes have become more common and in popular use. And I do think it's great if it gets more people on bikes and out of cars. I still think the whole frame-too-small style is kind of funny looking (yeah, it's a style, I guess it makes it look more like an actual track bike if the saddle is a foot higher than the bars because the bike just doesn't fit).
Emily O'Brien Medford, MA
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Travis Stuckey <trvsstcky@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [CR]Fixies and us twenty something pricks
> Sent: 02 Dec '07 01:38
>
> Wow, I have been subscribing this list for awhile now
> and I am not surprised you hate all of us twenty
> somethings with tattoos and opposing politics. Yeah I
> do have tattoos, am a union member, work skilled
> labor, organize protests, eat organic, and live as
> green as possible. I also ride gears, brevets, and I
> am training to ride RAAM in the next five years, you
> never know where or what else the enemy rides for
> bikes. I do not collect bikes and put them in my
> living room, I ride them in the snow and cold and do
> not convey a attitude. I guess the cycling world is
> full of ageists just like everywhere else... Just
> remember we are the future, you will have to live with
> us till you die.
>
> A fixie riddin tattooed syndicalist from south dakota
>
> Travis Stuckey
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