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Old 7th August 2008   #1
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"Fixie" article in the Gnauradian today

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty....ethicalliving

I will refrain from commenting.
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Old 7th August 2008   #2
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Ugh.

8 TIMES!
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Old 7th August 2008   #3
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Iain Marshal its fixed not fixie.
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Old 7th August 2008   #4
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read it over breakfast, was fun.

quick quick lets keep our subculture our own!

blap!
Last edited by runcible rakan; 7th August 2008 at 14:49..
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Old 7th August 2008   #5
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Very boring.
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Old 7th August 2008   #6
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I didn't mind it...TBH its at a level lots of people can understand.
It doesn't say that riding with one break/no break is dangerous which is a thumbs up.
It sounds like he has a understanding of what riding fixed is about.
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Old 7th August 2008   #7
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Talk about cliches - fucking hell,

"Because your legs and the cranks are in perpetual motion, you and the bike feel merged like a single organism, just as Flann O'Brien described in his surreal masterpiece, The Third Policeman."

if I have to read this one more time...
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Old 7th August 2008   #8
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I wanted controversy and sweeping generalisations.
My hate makes me strong.
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Old 7th August 2008   #9
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fine all brooms are puffs.
hows that for a sweeping generalisation
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Old 7th August 2008   #10
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Yorgo you aint got time to be reading the paper! Left you a message a while back. Give me a buzz when you're free - we should go for a beer and talk Scirocco / VW (glad everything is back on track).
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Old 7th August 2008   #11
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you have scirocco.
go join golf owners club. you'll be excepted even though it's not a golf. just don't tell them i sent you.
any chance of a piccy. i'll show mine if you show me yours :P
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Old 7th August 2008   #12
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found
Last edited by Shinscar; 7th August 2008 at 14:32.. Reason: found it
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Old 7th August 2008   #13
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Iain Marshal of the Guardian loves Alice Fisher of the Observer.

FACT.
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Old 7th August 2008   #14
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"prêt à pédaler" - oh god, no.....


"anathema to the hardcore fixie"

I'm sure this suggests that we are fixies.

Shin are you a fixie?
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Old 7th August 2008   #15
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Oh god that is so crap. Ah man it's so unfair! I hate it I hate you. Uhh! rubbish. I wish I was dead!



Have not read the article just wanted to put in the usual moaning that goes with any article like this.
Last edited by TheBrick(Tommy); 7th August 2008 at 16:30..
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Old 7th August 2008   #16
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"prêt à pédaler" - oh god, no.....


"anathema to the hardcore fixed"

I'm sure this suggests that we are fixed.

Shin are you a fixed?
fixed
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Old 7th August 2008   #17
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you've caught Chris Crash's disease dude.

Correcting "fixie" every time you see it, not the gentleman's problem.
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Old 7th August 2008   #18
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sorry, I'm a Torygraph type of guy
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Old 7th August 2008   #19
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you have scirocco.
go join golf owners club. you'll be excepted even though it's not a golf. just don't tell them i sent you.
any chance of a piccy. i'll show mine if you show me yours :P
No. Yorgo and I are doing something for the launch of the Scirocco. Should have been a PM, ignore me & carry on.

(I thought the article was OK - no mention of No Brakes and the pursuant dangers).
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Old 7th August 2008   #20
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I'm on the waiting list for a Scirocco.
Will be converting it from 6speed to fixed when it arrives though.
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Old 7th August 2008   #21
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Man up and get the old 16v Corrado. beastly beauty

I didn't read the article cause i know it wont compare to Will Selfs
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Old 7th August 2008   #22
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The Tall One has got his bike: s'been spotted around St.Ockwell on it. A Filmore I think.

But gah:

"The fixed-wheel cyclist has to be constantly attuned to the myriad, random possibilities of the urban thoroughfare, while at the same time feeling his translation through space as a constant muscular phenomenon."

And he's given up the drugs, so he's got no excuse.
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Old 7th August 2008   #23
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I love the original late 70s model in the metallic green. Corrado's are lovely too.

Good on you Broker, the new car looks better in the flesh than it does in print. What colour did you go for?

WTF was Will Self on about? Just a vaguely entertaining stream of consciousness...
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Old 7th August 2008   #24
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Is it legal?
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Old 7th August 2008   #25
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yep, pretty good article on fixies, i thought.
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Old 7th August 2008   #26
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He wrote it in 2006 where they were still wearing off. or kept up in secret. his whole idea of being one with traffic is great. sadly i only get there when i have pushed my mind. mostly after westies, easties...
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Old 7th August 2008   #27
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I was interviewed by Will Self's researcher for that article as were a couple of other couriers I know. Much good did it do us or him or anyone reading the stream of shite that eventually poured on to the page. Thought the Guardian article was pretty dull but, unlike with Self, at least I didn't want to try and catch the writer's foreskin between my chain and sprocket.
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Old 7th August 2008   #28
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We had Scirocco Storm in brown


damn it was quick
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Old 7th August 2008   #29
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i'll post it here too. :P
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Old 7th August 2008   #30
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I was interviewed by Will Self's researcher for that article as were a couple of other couriers I know. Much good did it do us or him or anyone reading the stream of shite that eventually poured on to the page. Thought the Guardian article was pretty dull but, unlike with Self, at least I didn't want to try and catch the writer's foreskin between my chain and sprocket.
Self is Jewish, therefore he is already minus foreskin
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Old 7th August 2008   #31
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Iain Marshal of the Guardian loves Alice Fisher of the Observer.

FACT.
ha!
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Old 7th August 2008   #32
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i like corrados.
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Old 7th August 2008   #33
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ok, earlobe
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Old 7th August 2008   #34
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ok, earlobe
Yes. He must have earlobes!
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Old 7th August 2008   #35
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Self is Jewish, therefore he is already minus foreskin
man, you really know your jews...