my favorite quotes (some of which are incomplete for the sake of humor:)
"There’s no way to tell who started this in Austin,” said Paul Hughes, a UT engineering student and cyclist. “Fixed gears go all the way back to Edison and shit."
"[Fixed-gear cyclists] showed me how it works, and I was like, ‘Wow, that’s crazy,’” said Leo Furmansky, an Austin resident and student at Austin Community College. “Being a BMX rider, it was always like, ‘Oh you’re doing tricks on a roadbike, that’s stupid,’ but I thought I should try it before I say anything. You can commute and get to places, and in between times when you’re not busy, you can do tricks.”
"A couple of days ago, there was a picture of Tom Mosher grinding down a ledge and people went apeshit in the BMX community,” Furmansky said. “They were like, ‘That’s stupid. You shouldn’t be doing that on a fixed-gear.’ It’s really BMXers’ excuse to talk crap on somebody. I used to be that person, too."
from the peanut gallery on Daily Texan (bonus points for this guy:)
"The cool kids are through stripping parts off of their bikes and are secretly fitting them with racks, lights, bags and multiple bottle cages. They've given up PBR for PBP (Paris-Brest-Paris) and now routinely go for rides of 19 to 20 hours at a time. Fear them, they are the Randonneurs and they are legion. Bon route!"
by the way, this pic of arak, which was on the front page, was taken immediately before he summersaulted off the front of his bike. he threw a bunch of other tricks down, but they decided to keep the one of him about to eat it.
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