The Fixie Bike Index

Re:The Fixie Bike Index by surferoso on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @02:20PM (#3476095)

this is flawed, because they are making the assumption that only hipsters use fixies in SOCal. The surfer community has tons of beach cruisers that are fixed gear, and I dare you to go to a parking lot or a lineup and call a bunch of surfers 'hipsters'....

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Re:The Fixie Bike Index by jleader on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @04:39PM (#3476595)

My grasp of the details of bike terminology is rusty, but don't cruisers usually have a single-speed freewheeling coaster-brake hub, rather than a fixed hub? So when you stop pedaling on a coaster, the wheels keep turning freely, and when you try to back-pedal, it applies a brake inside the hub? As opposed to a fixie, where the pedals turn whenever the wheel turns.

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Re:The Fixie Bike Index by anykey on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @06:24PM (#3477018)

You are correct.

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