What fixie "tribe" are you?

[Twenty Inch]

What fixie “tribe” are you?

According to the latest Cycle magazine, fixie riders can be divided up into 4 tribes: messengers (speaks for itself), fakengers – usually city boys who look like messengers but are clean and have new kit, hipsters from Hoxton and Shoreditch who ride in skinny jeans, and fraudax riders – full mudguards, pannier rack, found on the Dunwich Dynamo and commuting from South London.

I’m definitely in the Fraudax camp, I laughed out loud when I read it, as it’s me to a T.

What do other forum members identify with?

 

[yello]

Closest to fraudax... but I have no rack on the bike nor do I commute. So really, none of them!

 

[domtyler]

If I had to pick one it would have to be Fakenger.

This is on account of the fact that I cycle into a job in the city on a fixie (sometimes), I don't actually try and dress up like a cycle courier. Honest!

 

[GrahamG]

I was reading that last night too. The Fraudax label cracked me up - I'm a mixture of that a fakenger, no rack but mudguards and two brakes but with a courier bag

 

[ChrisKH]

I'm in the fifth tribe. Unfixed.

Read the article on the way in. Guy who bought the LeMond fixed mostly because it was fashionable struck me as a bit funny. But what would I know. Never been a fan of fashion. And he is on a bike.

 

[Twenty Inch]

I'm in the fifth tribe. Unfixed.

Read the article on the way in. Guy who bought the LeMond fixed mostly because it was fashionable struck me as a bit funny. But what would I know. Never been a fan of fashion. And he is on a bike.

That was funny - bought it because it goes with his Apple and Muji kit. I wonder what his road rash will go with?

And was anyone else a bit peeved at the final crack about fixie riders moving on to segways or unicycles?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I'm in the tribe which keeps their fixies in pieces in the shed. But when I did ride it I used it mostly for commuting, and I was probably a cross between a Fraudax rider (Raceblades) and a Fakenger (only one brake). But I just enjoyed riding it ... I must put it back together one of these days.

 

[GrahamG]

That cracked me up aswell. Apple, Muji, fixed wheel - I can spend money to make me cool!!

However, if you think about it, he's being totally honest just saying "yep, I'm a fashion victim" it's far classier than someone in denial.

 

[palinurus]

I haven't got a fixie. If I did have one I'd use it for commuting and so I'd have guards. It'd look fraudax.

When my cross bike is built I may not require the extra flexibility of gears on the commuter bike- currently also used for general winter riding- so maybe I can fix that.

 

[Will1985]

Hmm....certainly a cross between fraudax and fakenger for me. Sometimes I'm out in full lycra, the bike is usually clean anyway, but other times I am in rolled up jeans or a pair of Humvees and a t-shirt...just depends on what I'm doing. Don't have a rack, but do have mudguards (not on at the moment).

 

[GrahamG]

Don't worry, Will. No aspect of any cycling culture will ever penetrate Birmingham

 

[Greenbank]

No aspect of any cycling culture will ever penetrate Birmingham.

HTH.

I would be a Fraudax but I actually do ride Audaxes on this.

 

[Joe24]

I'm of the tribe that rides his in lycra, sometimes baggy shorts depending on where i'm going. Dont have a rack or mudguards.
So none really

 

[dudi]

I dont really fit into any of those...

I have a pared down steel frame, no extras. one brake and a big gear. set up as a TT-type bike (full TT bar-set and deep profile rims). used for speedy commutes and simple fast weekend riding. I ride it in full lycra, except for the commute, when i put on some baggys to spare the blushes of the girls I work with.

I'm bemused by this "fashion" rubbish. never have undersood it.

 

[Nick G]

Closest to a fraudax. I commute into the city on an un-pimped converted racer with mudguards, I wear lycra and I come in from north not south London. Never done the Dunwich Dynamo, however. What's it like?