New Bike

[Andy Tarpinian]

On Aug 7, 2008, at 1:53 PM, The Dong wrote:

> Andy Tarpinian wrote:
>> Got one of these,
>> http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/dawes/sst.htm
>
> It looks like the standard road bike.

Well there is a huge trend that started with bike messengers in urban  
areas of taking fixed gear track bikes(or converting road bikes) with  
no brakes and using them on the street. Fixies if you will. Across the  
country so called "hipsters," especially in Brooklyn NY have latched  
on to the idea making it a bit trendy. In my case, cheap versions of  
these bikes make a great city bike. This guy comes stock with a free  
wheel for single speed action, but you can flip the wheel and attach a  
fixed gear. I'm definitely going to try this out as being in direct  
control of the wheel (no coasting, pealing backwards) sound  
interesting, but I will not be taking off the brakes :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-gear_bicycle


>
> Should last another 30 years, hehe.
> I love free(ish) stuff.

There is a Recycle a bicycle shop here that I want to check out for a  
bike for my girlfriend, cool idea but they may only stock "nice" bikes.

http://www.recycleabicycle.org/

There is another place that sells refurbished 80's bicycles at a  
premium.  If you lived here Dong you could make some good change  
fixing up old bikes to sell :)