Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Cutting Edge? Not Really.

I love my single speed, fixed gear bicycle with Mtn. Bike 2" riser bars. It's flat black with white tires and white grips. I built it up because I needed a bike that I could thrash around and use as a commuter without the worry of losing a 5,000 dollar bike if I was hit by another dummy who doesn't stick around to trade insurance info...and with it's flat black paint I figured it was pretty cutting edge. But then I got to thinking, This is my second "track" bike (and I use track very loosely) and there have been many many many thousands of messengers world wide who have been riding bikes just like mine for a long time. And on top of that there are a lot of folks doing pretty crazy tricks on Fixed gears... kind of like this:



I mean that's crazy right? Totally cutting edge right?...




Oh, well uh...


Well, I guess not so cutting edge... unless you're talking about the fashion, because that's cutting edge right? Tight jeans... V-Necks? Wait, what? Meh... Whatever.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh stop! You are too cutting edge. Especially if you take into account how umm...hmmm.....oh, you.....umm....well, you uhh...