Gimme a Fixie Bro!
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e-rock at 12.17.07 - 12:18 pm
So, Obey had a custom fixie last month, now KidRobot has one....
comments y/n?!?
KidRobot
Obey Fixie
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CAPTAIN AMERICA???
That's the fugliest shit I've ever seen.
kyber12.17.07 - 12:20 pm
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but it's kidrobot, if you were cool you'd of already spent the $6,000 and be riding that shit with lafixed in hollywood.. bro?
e-rock12.17.07 - 12:23 pm
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*vomit*
It's so ugly. Looks like it was designed by fisher price
kyber12.17.07 - 12:25 pm
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yea, my grandmother rides fixed now too.
WIFE BIKE12.17.07 - 1:03 pm
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I don't understand how it's even possible to spend more than $57.72 on a fixed gear.
toweliesbong12.17.07 - 1:09 pm
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the fixed gears they built to look like 80s bmx bikes were pretty cool.
ruinedbyidiots12.17.07 - 1:18 pm
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The Obey bike is OK. I'm not feeling the gold but at least it's a solid-looking bike. Bonus points for lugs, threaded steerer, and curved fork.
The KidRobot bike is just a disaster in my opinion. Ridiculous price, especially for TIG-welded oversize tubes. Weird compact-ish geometry so you get to have mad seatpost. No integrated headsets for me, and what's up with the painted/powder-coated components? And to top it off: useless lock, and custom valve caps? Huh?
If I had $6000 to throw down on some boutique-y cross-branded bike, I'd go for one of the Paul Smith Mercians:
Paul Smith/Mercian Track
Paul Smith/Mercian Touring Bike
cabhauler12.17.07 - 1:46 pm
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Yeah, same feelings about the Obey. Nice frame and fork, don't know about the colors.
Those Mercians look nice.
toweliesbong12.17.07 - 1:56 pm
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OK it's no secret that I'm almost completely clueless to what's "in" with the fixies and what's "out", but what's with the one aero wheel and one spoke wheel on the $6k toy? Or should I call it a chick magnet? Are these aero wheels really that hard to find?
User112.17.07 - 2:06 pm
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i think the answer is no, and no...
pop culture is just looking for another fad to start, and fixies seem like they haven't been pillaged by the marketing types yet...
e-rock12.17.07 - 2:15 pm
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Have you guys not heard about Kanye West yet?
kyber12.17.07 - 2:17 pm
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OMG!! Kanye West is the new SUV from Chevrolet.
Regarding the Obey bike: From the standpoint of someone that enjoys customizing bikes, black and gold is one of those color schemes that is first into your mind and usually quickly dismissed as FUCKING DONE TO DEATH!! Burt did it way back when with his Firebird and then everyone else has done that shit with every other bit of paraphernalia until recently we all look like a pack of foiled out Black&Milds! Wow!
All about the neon.
Eric Hair12.17.07 - 2:31 pm
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ahhh I get it!
You get more street creed if you don't have a brake on your bike. And you'll get even more street creed if you have just one aero wheel! It gives the message, "hey man I'm just on the streets scraping by, can't afford another aero wheel cause the man is keeping me down."
I get now!
User112.17.07 - 2:36 pm
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It's cool that Kanye got one but I always pictured him on something more classic. I'll even be more impressed when a paparazzo takes a photo of him trackstanding or riding more than five miles.
The Aerospoke thing seems useless to me on the street, someone who knows better/uses them please explain. I always thought it was a fun accessory you add to reference BMX mag wheels, much like the way top-tube pads recall the pads you had to put on your BMX bike during a race.
cabhauler12.17.07 - 2:37 pm
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What's the next bike fad?
I like to be bleeding edge.
I better get on fix push soon before riding fixed no longer gets me free sex, beer, drugs, and entrance to VIP clubs in 10 cities worldwide.
Yeah...I ride for image.
kyber12.17.07 - 2:44 pm
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Six G's on any vehicle, of any type is extremely excessive.
I ride all my bikes until they crash into the ground.
Then it's "back-to-the-lab" again, with some discards from dumpsters and police auctions.
bentstrider12.17.07 - 4:01 pm
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@cabhauler:
Aerospoke = looks cool. I like them. It looks bad ass when you're riding a wheelie. And they're sufficiently strong to hold up to a little abuse. But don't buy a used one. Especially if it has a Doom sticker on it.
City Hobgoblin12.17.07 - 4:08 pm
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@User1:
It's street CRED, as in "credibility", not "creed". Old dudes. Sheesh.
City Hobgoblin12.17.07 - 4:10 pm
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I know weight would be a major issue, but i wish they would make some plastic bmx style wheels in 700c. What were those, nylon? What kind of truing are we talking about with one of those plastic wheels for roadies? Like a heat gun and plywood or something.......?
Eric Hair12.17.07 - 4:29 pm
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Here's the newest trend, put a cog up front. Don't know how to do it but some hipster will figure out how.
sc_nomad12.17.07 - 7:05 pm
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Unicycles are the new fixies. Believe that.
hatehills12.17.07 - 7:11 pm
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Aren't unicycles "The Old Skoo' Fixie?"
markedge12.17.07 - 8:50 pm
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old skool is the new skool, boy-eeee
e-rock12.17.07 - 9:01 pm
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ya'll sound like a bunch of HATAHS !!!!!!!!!!
stop Hating and get hip to the game ur selves BTW that Aerospoke wheel belongs in the rear.becuz of the wieght and velocity involed in riding fixed...suckas that sport the one in front def only do it foshow....
Get Hip to the Game..................before the game hops ova ya..
SixtyLowRida12.17.07 - 9:54 pm
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sorry to keep posting this, but its fucking hilarious.
" yeah i've been riding fix-push now about four months, and in that time its become my whole life really. "
keep it real, brah.
brandt-sorenson12.17.07 - 9:55 pm
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Get Hip to the Game, before the Game Hops ova ya..........
SixtyLowRida12.17.07 - 9:56 pm
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bro i think brandt-sorenson dot com might ride ovaya in a full on flannel printed lycra suit....
blackflaglover12.17.07 - 10:12 pm
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i'm a baller. i bought the bike. uh huh. had to get into 2 accidents to get the insurance money for it.
superfish12.17.07 - 10:13 pm
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That bike is so ugly, it looks like every member of a rugby league team has chundered all over it.
ephemerae12.17.07 - 10:34 pm
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on the real that bike is fugly......
it looks so toyish
fuck, they should have stuck to toys..fuck ,if i see a kid on it i'll call him a toy unless its a cute as japanese girl..naw maybe not the bikes a fucking eyesoar..I'd still her a TOY
The OBEY bike is all right. I dont care to much for the OBEY label but it is a nice looking bike also retail at 12 hundie.....so thats kinda reasonable..
skano12.17.07 - 10:48 pm
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12 hundred? damn i could live a month and a half on that. whats the point of dropping bank on a bike? i've bought one road bike in my life when i was like nineteen for five hundred bucks.
brandt-sorenson12.17.07 - 11:08 pm
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How's about a fixed-gear, recumbent??
That would be a definite bitch to ride right there.
Pick up some mad speed though.
bentstrider12.18.07 - 12:45 am
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all you fuckers that have been riding fixed for 5 or more years created this fucken trend (not many on this forum im sure)so shut the fuck up.its like hating midnight ridazz for getting 100's of new un-bike educated people to get out and ride their shit.just let people do what makes them happy.expensive bikes,children,fixies,d&d,stargate/peterbilt,politics,homosexuality,pro-zac,porn,scientology,hippie metal,rbi,beer,yayo,dumb kittens.we're all stupid in our way.and we just hang out with the people that are closest to our stupidity.
mandingo12.18.07 - 3:49 am
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Ride whatever the hell you want, I'll always love you rida, but personal preference may keep me from feeling the same about your ride. SHIEET!!!
Eric Hair12.18.07 - 4:19 am
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I could live a half year on 1,200.
At least I hope I can otherwise, I'll be quite hungry by the end of the month.
franz12.18.07 - 4:25 am
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thats awesome. imagine b randt - sorensons grocery bill when hes training 20-30 hrs a week. that like 4k calories a day, and organic food isnt cheap. hahah. or maybe he just drinks like two venti caramel frappaccino machiatos with double whip cream and a flavor shot from his local neighborhood starbucks.
blackflaglover12.18.07 - 10:59 am
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Wait, how did this whole "bro / brah" thing get associated with riding fixed? If you're gonna make fun of it, at least get it right. I've never heard a fixed gear guy say "bro." "bro / brah" is for surfers, 909ers, flatbillers, and OC d-bags.
City Hobgoblin12.18.07 - 11:33 am
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that bike makes me physically agitated
ectoplasm12.18.07 - 1:06 pm
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great pics....I agree with Goblinhob. The only transportation I associate with the bros is lifted late-model Chevys with a rear windom graphic such as West Coast Choppers, etc...which, by the way, is the brand association used to lull them into purchasing their beach cruiser/chopper, not a fixie.
Beefneck for life!!
Eric Hair12.18.07 - 2:10 pm
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Always thought
bro = brothers
Brah = hawaiians.
Now how did the white folks make this theirs?
sc_nomad12.18.07 - 2:17 pm
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Growing up I remember it was unacceptable to use 'brah' unless you were Hawaiian. It did not matter if you surf or not. But dinosaurs walk the earth back then.
sc_nomad12.18.07 - 2:23 pm
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I'm a full 1/4 blooded OG flatbiller and I remember calling my bros bro back in 1982. Don't know who the first redneck to co-opt bro was but I think it was Cliffdiver Johnson, famous flatbiller motohead of the late 70s.
toweliesbong12.18.07 - 2:32 pm
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Bike are for everyone bros, sistahs, bruddahs, homies, chicas, dudes, ladies, chicks, fools, and ridazz alike.
Would you stop riding a fixie if you were just as likely to see a bro on one as a dude or a homie?
trickmilla12.18.07 - 3:18 pm
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Nobody's arguing that point. We wuz all just wondering who co-opted the werds and when.
toweliesbong12.18.07 - 3:23 pm
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For a bro-giggle, courtesy of the Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/bro_youre_a_god_among_bros
@sc_nomad:
You're not on the island anymore. The dirty haolies run the show out here.
City Hobgoblin12.18.07 - 4:11 pm
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I prefer to say "bro-dog" or "douchebag" when referring to these types.
cabhauler12.18.07 - 4:20 pm
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Kid Robot has been sponsoring some messenger friends in NY for a while now.. sending em to race at events and stuff like that.. guess this is the next step.. I wonder if they each got a bike to race... hmm now I'm gonna go and ask them...
redridinghood12.18.07 - 4:27 pm
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what?? straight bills are out?
quick somebody tell skiddles!
brandt-sorenson12.18.07 - 4:37 pm
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Skiddles is the shit. That kid is above the law when it comes to style.
City Hobgoblin12.18.07 - 4:58 pm
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ahhh shoulda read the link before posting.....
honestly, I think it's dope! a one-off bike, with custom parts/paint/locks/etc... a true collectors item for some toyfetishlovingpersonwithmoney.
I don't get why they did all that in Florida of all places... but.... hey - get the kids into bikes! GET THE KIDS INTO BIKES!!!!
redridinghood12.18.07 - 5:01 pm
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