The most uncool fixed [ss] rider

[Amanda P]

Uncool: all of the above, leather saddle, no carbon etc., plus:
Dynamo hub, front & rear lights
Steel seat pin & separate saddle clamp (it's a Peugeot frame and no-one sells a one-piece seatpin in the right size)
Clipless pedals (but they are mountain bike SPDs)
Luggage rack

Cool:
GPS mount
Matching yellow frame, rims & tyres

How do I score?

I just wanted it for a flat ride to work, day and night, winter and summer, with luggage, and no fancy transmission parts to get wrecked in a salty winter. I don't really care whether it is, or I am, cool or not.

As I now work at home, I'm thinking of selling it. Make me an offer, anyone?

 

[derrick]

Ally frame
normal wheels
lights
Normal clothes.

 

[I like Skol]

I must be über cool if you also count the attire of the rider.....
I have been seen sporting some particularly natty headwear over the years, and never, ever cleaning your bike, that's dead cool, right?

 

[I like Skol]

I must be über cool if you also count the attire of the rider.....
I have been seen sporting some particularly natty headwear over the years, and never, ever cleaning your bike, that's dead cool, right?

Sorry, when you said 'fixed gear', well all 27 work now so I thought you meant..... never mind

 

[Ian H]

There's a hierarchy of uncoolness:-
The 'obviously-trying-to-look-cool'.
The bike as fashion-statement, designed to be pushed, not ridden.
Lack of road-sense.
Lack of bike-handling skills.
Use of the hideous word 'fixie'.
I've probably missed some.

 

[potsy]

I must be über cool if you also count the attire of the rider.....
I have been seen sporting some particularly natty headwear over the years, and never, ever cleaning your bike, that's dead cool, right?

You are nowhere near cool enough to ride a ss/fixie, be gone with you

 

[rideswithmoobs]

Mudguards....of course chief
Standard wheels.....yep
Steel frame......of course
No rack or panniers but do wear a Guy Martin ridiculous bobble hat, baggy shorts and freebe shades.

Is that scruffy cool or scruffy uncool ?

 

[3narf]

I have a converted '70s steel-framed bike, fake leather saddle, spoke mounted reflectors, SPDs, no mudguards, X-Lite mountain bike bar ends on flat bars, Garmin and a bottle cage mounted ally pump.

I wear lycra and a helmet.

Despite all this I would be cool; except I'm 48.

 

[tyred]

I'm the king of cool
My winter fixed wheel:
70s "gaspipe" frame by some obscure German manufacturer
Mudguards
Metal clips and leather straps
Cheap Chinese Brooks copy
Aldi rack
Usually Carradice saddle bag
Dynamo lights
Weinmann suicide levers
Steel bars and stem
Unfashionably low gear ratio.
Michelin World Tour tyres

It's only very recently I upgraded from cottered cranks and steel wheels on this bike.

 

[totallyfixed]

Are you offering these as a list of uncool traits?

Well it was, however I seem to be being out uncooled. Drat, I don't have the leather shoes. I do however have a motley collection of cycling caps.

Surely nobody would be that uncool, not even @totallyfixed

Don't bet on it. Dr_pink on the other hand is cool, she told me to say that.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@dr_pink is well cool on her bike imo: the rest of you just resemble CTC riders

 

[midlife]

Sounds like the CC version of the Top Gear cool wall

Shaun

 

[totallyfixed]

I have a suspicion the definition of cool may be different in London. In relation to cycling, "hipster" was a new one to me and I only found out what it meant last year, another term, "fakenger" was also lost on me.

 

[Sharky]

I have a suspicion the definition of cool may be different in London. In relation to cycling, "hipster" was a new one to me and I only found out what it meant last year, another term, "fakenger" was also lost on me.

Fakenger, isn't that what was called out when the great "Alf" passed you in a timetrial?

 

[Lonestar]

Does anyone ride with clip less pedals? I'm debating whether to get them

Yup and I wouldn't dream of using anything else...Workmate at work has bought a mango.Dunno what made him go fixed though.