Why would anyone take off the breaks!? That's dumb and maybe dangerous.
It just means you have to build up the leg strength in order to resist the pedals and stop the bike. It's great exercise, though perhaps not as "practical" as a normal bike for simply getting from point A to point B. They're meant to be stripped-down and lightweight.
Why would anyone take off the breaks!? That's dumb and maybe dangerous.
It just means you have to build up the leg strength in order to resist the pedals and stop the bike. It's great exercise, though perhaps not as "practical" as a normal bike for simply getting from point A to point B. They're meant to be stripped-down and lightweight.
Don't forget that it is now impossible to coast or lean into corners at any meaningful angle (because you'd have to pedal through the turn, risking banging the pedal against the ground during it, and possibly wrecking as a result).
By the by, it's actually illegal in many states to ride a bike without functioning brakes.
Was on turntable.fm, stumbled in on the Indie music room. Description read as follows, "Indie music only. NO MAINSTREAM CRAP. Popular songs will be downvoted and may result in a ban."
The word "hipster" most commonly describes an individual who meets the following criteria:
1) Dresses nicely, but mostly in thrifted/sale clothing. This is usually due to poverty. 2) Is artistic, but is seeking/possesses a separate career to alleviate the aforementioned poverty. 3) Probably rides a bike. This is mostly due to poverty: cars are fucking expensive in a city. 4) Drinks mostly cheap beer at friends' apartments instead of drinking at bars, because bars are expensive and hipsters are poor.
Most of these things actually aren't that bad. If a dude drank cheap beer, dressed nicely, and did artsy stuff in the 50s, he was just a bohemian or a jazz musician or something similarly cool.
I posit that "hipster" is just a new word the internet uses to deride a certain type of creative person who has pretty much always existed in America.
In New York, they often wear those clothes at significant markup and unseasonably. The best example is wearing the wool hat and sweater while biking in 90* weather. ;^)
Berlin is hipster central, but they fit in so well here with the rest of the city it's hard for me to notice them. I've never seen a single legitimate complaint about hipsters that doesn't come from them riding bikes or being in the gentrification demographic. But for all the hipsters who can't ride bikes properly there are many more non-hipster who are just as bad. Same with the gentrification. Along with all the hipsters are just as many young families that make rents rise and sushi places open.
In New York, they often wear those clothes at significant markup and unseasonably. The best example is wearing the wool hat and sweater while biking in 90* weather. ;^)
Yo, there is a fine line between "hipster" and "trust fund hipster"; what you're describing is the latter.
I often see 30yr-old dudes in designer flannels carrying thirtyracks of PBR down my neighborhood's main street. Fuck those guys.
There was nothing hipsterish about it as far as I could tell. It was just a nice pancake place with different styling (compared to IHOP) and nicer ingredients. If that is hipster, then the entire world outside of franchise America is hipster.
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By the by, it's actually illegal in many states to ride a bike without functioning brakes.
Yeah okay guys.
One turns to the other and says "Lets get out of here. This place is full of hipsters."
Also, for your viewing pleasure, a hipster Vietcong from Paradox. He was fighting western imperialists before it was cool.
He's still underground. In the tunnel networks.
1) Dresses nicely, but mostly in thrifted/sale clothing. This is usually due to poverty.
2) Is artistic, but is seeking/possesses a separate career to alleviate the aforementioned poverty.
3) Probably rides a bike. This is mostly due to poverty: cars are fucking expensive in a city.
4) Drinks mostly cheap beer at friends' apartments instead of drinking at bars, because bars are expensive and hipsters are poor.
Most of these things actually aren't that bad. If a dude drank cheap beer, dressed nicely, and did artsy stuff in the 50s, he was just a bohemian or a jazz musician or something similarly cool.
I posit that "hipster" is just a new word the internet uses to deride a certain type of creative person who has pretty much always existed in America.
/tedious navel-gazing by an insecure hipster
I often see 30yr-old dudes in designer flannels carrying thirtyracks of PBR down my neighborhood's main street. Fuck those guys.
Now, here's a challenge: find a definition of hipster that doesn't include my dad and isn't age-based. I have yet to.