London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

I thought you might like to check out this article on fixed gear bikes in Cooler Magazine. Yes, they do go on about 'no brakes' and 'fixies' all the time, but it's a pretty good effort and its nice to see something in a women's magazine that you actually want to read!

i like this bit: 'eschewing brakes and gears marks you out as some kind of fucktard".

"Breaks"!

yeah, I know. Amazing, isn't it?!! Breaks indeed...

no, it marks you out as a unicyclist! how's the barbed wire? still tasty?

the stem/frottage pic is a bit strong for a magazine that could fall into the hands of impressionable young children.
frankly i'm disgusted they printed this. they young lady in the picture should be ashamed of herself.

I like the way the journo is banging on about riding with no breaks (sic) right next to a fucking great big picture of four bikes with brakes on them
But negativity about media monkeys aside, you lot are certainly getting a good name for yourselves - keep it up :-)

I can't be arsed to read all that small print so can't comment on the article but you have come out well in the photos.

what's next? a Trixie chix bike makeover show on channel five?

Is it me, or is there a comma missing from the last sentence under the cog??

semicolon?

Quite possibly... good to see the girs in the mag regardless!

colon?

that header sucks balls, but good work ladies :D

"frottage" ... *hee hee*

full stop (or "period") would have sufficed. A hyphen - or dash - would have been more magaziney.

Know breaks.

I think the article, grammar/spelling aside is pretty great. The woman who wrote it rides fixed and interviewed me right after the Observer debacle so I was pretty hard on her.
I would like to say that I said "I only knew 3 other women riders" not that there were only 3. According to my quote I was the 4th ever fixed rider in all of London when I started.

We are in the August edition of Elle Magazine -Quebec as well so get your subscriptions in now.

I shouldn't be surprised by it now, but it never ceases to amaze me that 'proper' media make the sort of errors that would make me curl up and die with shame if they appeared on Moving Target.

And once the mistake has appeared in a 'credible' news source, that's it - fact. To be repeated by all the others.

You are now officially the fourthest fixie girl in London ever, Roxy - take a bow.

And considering that currently there are "ONLY 7 WOMEN IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD RIDING FIXIES" I'm even more fantastic-er.

Les Hipsters de Londres.

Is that Slamm's Diamant? Hadn't noticed before...

yeah

Ergh, was this posted already? I even tried to do a search to make sure! Thought I had a scoop with my sweet Canadian connections.

Yeah, we through a trixie chix party last year and the pic was one of the prizes.

Ah, but the article probably wasn't. So at least that's new. I thought Elle had dressed you all up.

Yeah i havent seen that article before -

Hehehe... Queen of the hipsters, third from the left... ;)

just think about what you wrote there for a moment.

now, slap yourself around the face with a pack of smoked salmon.

shut up gay boy. : )

Yeah, shut up Rob! ;p

Horatio is that the whole article? do you subscribe to Elle Quebec?
I currently have a rather gobsmacked French colleague translating it for me, although I fear I might now have a reputation in the Paris office...

shit i've just realised my name is in there...what on earth did they quote me as saying...

you know she's referring to you, I haven't called em a hipster!

Rob you coming Saturday??? ignore teenslain he's just having problems coming to terms with his sexuality and i am trying to help him over come it.

Yes you have, you called me a hipster on sunday.

only if I'm invited!

you are indeed

shall I just stand somewhere north of blackfriars bridge and shout?

hipsister??
hipstress??

i like hipsister

all yours then :)

Fu-nny! You're doing a great job... ;)

am always trying to do my bit for the community

My mom has the subscription, she just got it a couple days ago so we nabbed it. And yeah, that's the whole article. I guess the bigger version is in La Presse from a couple months ago by the same guy.

Yeh, I know he did a bigger thing on polo, nice chap actually - I really wasnt in the mood to be interviewed that night, but he charmed me - can't resist a man with an accent.
Nice action shot of Skoota there in the other article!

Right, heres the translation:

Trendy
Everything is fine for the Trixie Chix! (Sense: Everything is rolling for the Trixie Chix!)

People are speaking more and more about them. Every Tuesday, the Trixie Chix – a team of London girls who love cycling – gathers to practice their favourite sport: the urban polo…on wheels! Adopted by the London hipsters, this sport is as much hockey as classic polo. “We bump into each other, we fall, but most important we have much fun”, says Claire Davison laughing. The Trixie Chix share a very good sense of balance and humour.It is also a nice way to socialize”, she says after having changed her bike for a beer. Well, this is not for people who like to have quiet evenings.

I love that pic! You chix "roule"!

hey clefty, when you change your bike for beer do you get confused and try to pedal the pint? Or is it more casino stylee "I give you two beer for this here hipster bicycle, now get out of my pub?' you did good girl, no mention of breaks or indeed brakes.

Wow, you all turned up to the photoshoot in red, white and black. How embaressing.

More or less embarrassing than your inability to spell?

Much, much less. This is why I only do photoshoots for The Guardian.