Now you might think of the people who ride a penny-farthing as sort of annoying on account of it’s a penny-farthing, but let me suggest finding them annoying because they ride fixies
Now you might think of the people who ride a penny-farthing as sort of annoying on account of it’s a penny-farthing, but let me suggest finding them annoying because they ride fixies
Are fixies pretentious or something? I loved my fixie in college but I got it cos it was what I could afford. If anything riding a fixie by choice is more stupid and masochistic than anything else.
fixies are fine honestly but there’s a sizeable community of people running brakeless fixies which annoys me
brakeless? They out here stopping like the flintstones??
Given how a fixed gear works you kind of have like an inbuilt coaster brake via pedalling backwards. Some people figure this is enough and make a whole deal about that being enough.
Oh that makes sense but yeah no way that’s more effective or robust than the normal handle brakes
it isn’t. the apocryphical story is that was introduced by caribbean immigrants to NYC who had to use their personal bikes and as such figured anything you didn’t need is cost up and also they were used to riding fixies from the velodromes and it spread from there.
Bike Messengers still often have to use their personal bikes, there’s definitely an economic incentive there. But honestly I figure it’s mostly subculture
brakes only slow you down
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: