what am i looking at here? it just looks like a normal bike?
The "handlebar" isn't a handlebar, but a seat post lol
The handlebar is a seatpost. See that thing on the right of it? That's where you'd attach a saddle
Not sure what the others are talking about. This looks like a normal bike to me as well? Maybe it’s different in their respective regions?
Posts that land well in Brooklyn 2010 and nowhere else
Take a seat post, get a handle on yourself.
I always get bullied for my fixie but it's just incredibly flat here and I have literally no reason to ever shift.
I down shift every time I slow down. Accelerating up to speed is easier and faster. And my gear ratio is higher than what would be practical on a fixie, meaning my top speed is higher.
Still, there is something to say for the simplicity of a fixie
I don't get the hate tbh, I'm nervous to ever ride one myself but you can get going SO FAST, and they're cheap and easy to maintain. I think people used to hate on brakeless ones as a hipster thing tho. I used to ride a single speed and had someone yell at me from their car something stupid because they thought it was fixed lol.
Fixies are fine, it's brakeless fixies that are bad which both the above picture and that entire subreddit are prime examples of.
You keep on rocking (unless...)
Wait brakeless????? That's just a bad idea. Who thought of that?
i cant keep up with fixie fashion anymore.