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"A fixie is a bicycle reduced to its simplest and most elegant form. Lightening-fast, uncompromising and demanding: a bicycle that has rediscovered its true nature of an obvious and naked cycling machine, magically transforming every ride into a sensual dance imbued with speed, balance and rhythm."
Now thats a person who knows the true joy of a fixie.
Sorry to give a thumbs down to this article, but I'm doubtful the author has ever ridden one. Anybody who describes fixies as 'sort of dumb', 'impractical', and 'super hip' within the first few paragraphs basically kills my attention. As long as Im giving my unsolicited two cents Ill throw in one of the better definitions I have read over the years, which I kept:
"A fixie is a bicycle reduced to its simplest and most elegant form. Lightening-fast, uncompromising and demanding: a bicycle that has rediscovered its true nature of an obvious and naked cycling machine, magically transforming every ride into a sensual dance imbued with speed, balance and rhythm."
Now thats a person who knows the true joy of a fixie.
"A fixie is a bicycle reduced to its simplest and most elegant form. Lightening-fast, uncompromising and demanding: a bicycle that has rediscovered its true nature of an obvious and naked cycling machine, magically transforming every ride into a sensual dance imbued with speed, balance and rhythm."
Now thats a person who knows the true joy of a fixie.
chixieonfixie said:"A fixie is a bicycle reduced to its simplest and most elegant form. Lightening-fast, uncompromising and demanding: a bicycle that has rediscovered its true nature of an obvious and naked cycling machine, magically transforming every ride into a sensual dance imbued with speed, balance and rhythm."
Now thats a person who knows the true joy of a fixie.
Umm seriously? I ride a 'fixie' and all but I don't have such delusions or pretensions about it . Lightening fast? I'd give geared/TT bikes the prize for that. Also brakeless zen-seekers don't want go too fast lest they be suicidal. Uncompromising? I think it's pretty obvious that by removing your brakes you're compromising safety for aesthetic.
chixieonfixie said:
"A fixie is a bicycle reduced to its simplest and most elegant form. Lightening-fast, uncompromising and demanding: a bicycle that has rediscovered its true nature of an obvious and naked cycling machine, magically transforming every ride into a sensual dance imbued with speed, balance and rhythm."
Now thats a person who knows the true joy of a fixie.
Until he discovers the joy of riding mopeds.
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