Hipsters fucking love the hurdy-gurdy

[Don Coyote]

Fixed gear bikes don't have brakes?   

I think they have brakes in that if you stop pedaling the rear wheel will stop turning.

But now I think I should get a 24 speed mountain bike put street tires on it and use it cruise around post.

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

Fixed gear bikes don't have brakes?  

No freewheel either: so your legs are moving at all times that the wheel is moving.

Fixed gear bikes are for training for bike races not riding around town, ZOMG TEH IRONY!

[Don Coyote]

Fixed gear bikes don't have brakes?  

No freewheel either: so your legs are moving at all times that the wheel is moving.

Fixed gear bikes are for training for bike races not riding around town, ZOMG TEH IRONY!

I hate hipsters.

[Elder Iptuous]

have they already moved through a penny-farthing trend, or is there a ripe market there for a quick footed entrepreneur?

[Requia ☣]

If you mean the bikes with the big assed wheel on the back, yes I believe so.

[the last yatto]

Isn't the brakes when you pedal backwards?

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

Isn't the brakes when you pedal backwards?

That's a coaster brake and no, fixed gear bikes do not have them.

Net,
Doctor of Bicycology

ETA: If you're pedaling backwards on a fixed gear the bike is moving backwards. The brake is your legs, which generally means gradually slowing the pedals down.

[East Coast Hustle]

I don't think that "hipsters" have a unique character that makes them particularly hateworthy. I think any youth subculture causes people outside of it to go "FUCKING KIDS THESE DAYS"

This entire thread could have been about flappers, greasers, early rockers, punks, emos, grunge kids, hippies, or metalheads and it wouldn't be substantially different.

I still AM one of those "fucking kids" (mentally if not chronologically) and none of the other cutural archetypes you mention fill me with rage.

Hell, even emos just fill me with a sense of pity.

Hell, even hippies (HIPPIES FFS!!) are more respectable since they actually at least THINK they sort of have a reason for being who and what they are.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't think that "hipsters" have a unique character that makes them particularly hateworthy. I think any youth subculture causes people outside of it to go "FUCKING KIDS THESE DAYS"

This entire thread could have been about flappers, greasers, early rockers, punks, emos, grunge kids, hippies, or metalheads and it wouldn't be substantially different.

I still AM one of those "fucking kids" (mentally if not chronologically) and none of the other cutural archetypes you mention fill me with rage.

Hell, even emos just fill me with a sense of pity.

Hell, even hippies (HIPPIES FFS!!) are more respectable since they actually at least THINK they sort of have a reason for being who and what they are.

Have you even SEEN any hippies under 30 who aren't just a type of hipster?

[Doktor Howl]

I don't think that "hipsters" have a unique character that makes them particularly hateworthy. I think any youth subculture causes people outside of it to go "FUCKING KIDS THESE DAYS"

This entire thread could have been about flappers, greasers, early rockers, punks, emos, grunge kids, hippies, or metalheads and it wouldn't be substantially different.

I still AM one of those "fucking kids" (mentally if not chronologically) and none of the other cutural archetypes you mention fill me with rage.

Hell, even emos just fill me with a sense of pity.

Hell, even hippies (HIPPIES FFS!!) are more respectable since they actually at least THINK they sort of have a reason for being who and what they are.

Have you even SEEN any hippies under 30 who aren't just a type of hipster?

I haven't seen any hippies OVER 30 that aren't some sort of hipster.

Of course, we have a particularly vile breed of hippie, here.

[East Coast Hustle]

I don't think that "hipsters" have a unique character that makes them particularly hateworthy. I think any youth subculture causes people outside of it to go "FUCKING KIDS THESE DAYS"

This entire thread could have been about flappers, greasers, early rockers, punks, emos, grunge kids, hippies, or metalheads and it wouldn't be substantially different.

I still AM one of those "fucking kids" (mentally if not chronologically) and none of the other cutural archetypes you mention fill me with rage.

Hell, even emos just fill me with a sense of pity.

Hell, even hippies (HIPPIES FFS!!) are more respectable since they actually at least THINK they sort of have a reason for being who and what they are.

Have you even SEEN any hippies under 30 who aren't just a type of hipster?

actually yes. Maine is full of them. They're endearingly earnest, if a bit stinky.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't think that "hipsters" have a unique character that makes them particularly hateworthy. I think any youth subculture causes people outside of it to go "FUCKING KIDS THESE DAYS"

This entire thread could have been about flappers, greasers, early rockers, punks, emos, grunge kids, hippies, or metalheads and it wouldn't be substantially different.

I still AM one of those "fucking kids" (mentally if not chronologically) and none of the other cutural archetypes you mention fill me with rage.

Hell, even emos just fill me with a sense of pity.

Hell, even hippies (HIPPIES FFS!!) are more respectable since they actually at least THINK they sort of have a reason for being who and what they are.

Have you even SEEN any hippies under 30 who aren't just a type of hipster?

actually yes. Maine is full of them. They're endearingly earnest, if a bit stinky.

You have holdouts!

[Triple Zero]

Your hipsters are obviously defective. Ours are much better looking.

Still retarded, but only in a "kids these days" kind of retarded, these are just people wearing ugly shit.

For some reason (better judgement? sense of aesthetics?) the ones here never came up with the idea that your clothes aren't allowed to match, EVER.

[Requia ☣]

Pics?

[Triple Zero]

Except that... as hip as it is to hate on hipsters... "Hipster" is pretty much just a term that describes young urban people. It's nothing more than monkeys being monkeys; "THEY are hipsters; WE are better than them".

90% of the people here are indistinguishable from "hipsters" from an outside perspective. Since "Hipsters" are almost ALWAYS defined by an outside perspective, that makes the majority of us "hipsters".

When I was first introduced to this idea about two months ago, it pissed me the fuck off. Why? Because I'm not a fucking hipster... right? I mean... I'm not... really... oh wait. Who defines "hipster"? Who decides who is a hipster? Hipsters don't consider themselves hipsters. Hipsters HATE hipsters and would argue bitterly against being labeled a hipster. So... who decides who is a hipster? Who even knows what a hipster is? Lots of people don't know what a hipster is, and couldn't point out a hipster in a crowd. They don't hate hipsters. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that those people are definitely NOT hipsters.

Here's a question for you; in what way am I definitely NOT a hipster? If I was sitting at the Nest and someone looked at me and decided I was a hipster, what would make me not a hipster?

WHY are you so worried about all this, really?

It's just ... stuff?

So do I get this right, you always had a rather unique lifestyle, colourful, weird things, bright orange cones, something about green cars or trucks or something (just grabbing some random things that come to mind), and then at some point some of your friends tell you you're a hipster cause, apparently, what you've been doing all your life reminds them of hipsterism.

And now you're worried cause they somehow feel they can classify you as "one of category Hipster" instead of them having to figure you out for being just your unique self like you've always been and (probably) will be?

And that's of course worrying because now they expect you to be a hipster in other ways as well, ways that you wouldn't like.

And because "hipster" is so ephemeral, so unclassifiable, you can't say you're not one cause that makes you one for being all ironic and stuff, that's worrying? Cause the unclassifiable bit isn't new either. In the Netherlands around 1995-2000 or so, there was the "alternative" kids, and they would never ever call themselves "alternatives"*, cause they were just doing their own stuff, you know? [which is different from Germany btw, where they had no problem calling themselves alternative. It's still quite alive there, too]

* actually one afternoon, my alternative friends even figured out the irony bit that hipsters do: they said, hey wait a minute, we don't call ourselves alternative eh, cause that'd be LABELING, but on the other hand, we wear the clothes, we like the music, and behave "alternative" .. so um, I'm alternative! Yeah, I guess, me too. And then it was all self-referential and ironic, but it never caught on anywhere except that one afternoon, until about 10 years later with these hipsters, apparently

Pics?

snapping pics of 17-19 year old girls and posting them on the internet? even though the age of consent in NL is 16, that's still creepy :-P

other option would be trawling the internets looking for some dutch hipster forums, do you mind if I pass?