Urban Outfitters, one of the leading retailers of plagiarized t-shirts and clothing designs, is now selling color customized fixed gear bikes. Partnering with Florida-based online bike store Republic Bike, the new retail chain’s website offers customers an online interface to easily choose a garish combination of colors for their $399 ride. The new 24-pound bikes are then pieced together on a first-come first-served basis and shipped out. But so far, the Urban Outfitters Bicycle Shop hasn’t exactly won the support of the biking community. Their take below.
“Great. There goes the neighborhood. Why why why???”
— Don’t hate/love the Gazette
“…it seems the general consensus is that they are the inevitable pre-packaged walmart version of hipster bikes, and overall, purchase with a very you-get-what-you-pay-for kind of caution. hmm, a deal not unlike the shoddily-constructed clothing from urban outfitters – but i still shop there.â€
— Blueberry Bike
“Fixed Gear Apocalypse—Is this what the Bike Snob has been referring to all this time?â€
— Bootleg Sessions
“At the end of the day, bike culture is more important than car culture and people are going to, for the first time ever, ride a bike because it’s cool and because it’s transportation. That’s what’s most important. The cooler it is, or hipper, to ride bikes, the better off we’ll all be!”
— Prolly is Not Probably
So now we get to see a bunch more ding dong's riding around in their over priced high heels boasting the crappy concept that "you too can look cool riding one"… gross. Urban sucks, they take what other people used to love and make it cheap and sell it to a bunch of idiots, thanks.
I wouldn't kick that bike out of bed.
me neither! i don't care what the bike wankers say
just because that bike is fucking ridiculous looking and geared [HAHA] towards urban outfitters hipsters doesn't mean it's a fixed gear
it has back brakes, which, as anyone who rides and isn't just a bike-aphobe will know, means that the back wheel is not continuosly moving, meaning it is not a 'fixed gear' bike
womp womp
Nah that just means you can stop without skidding it. In Germany it's the law to have a brake on a fixie.
A back brake on a fixie? Now everyone will know that you're a complete dingbat for buying a bike from the suburban mall.
this is a bullshit fixie…machined rims, Schrader valves, and a back break
this bike couldn't get any more entry level…but thats what you get with urban outfitters
Anything and everything will get sucked up and repackaged to market.
Maybe some people truly love fixed gears with a passion…but just taking a cursory look around williamsburg with everyone dressing alike and riding fixes, tells you that there are many sheep to sell to.
Same shit happened to surfing.
BTW: People still don't realize that the guy who runs Urban Outfitters is getting the last ironic laugh…?
He's a huge donator to the right-wing agenda.
Yeah, it sucks that big companies commercialized surfing and now all the sheep are surfing to work and surfing to the bar and practicing surfing tricks underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. The roads are clogged with surfers! Somebody do something!
Hipsters are the worlds biggest posers. This bike shall serve them well.
Wait a sec people! If anyone had bothered to read the article (it's not too long!) you'd see that UO is simply reselling the bikes for a Florida based company called Republic. You can go to their website right now and config your own ride. Now, I know nothing about bikes so, for all I know, these may be shit. But what's awesome about this is the two companies have teamed up so Republic gets to branch out and sell their bikes to thousands more potential riders.
You're all just pissy because you resent faux hipsters trying to jump in the pool with you in their floaties. The fact is that it's an effing bike!! It's called a "mode of transportation". I for one think this is great. I don't need a $2k bike to ride a few blocks to get groceries but it sure would be nice if it didn't look like something I stole off a stop sign.
Here in Ontario we are trying to get our streets more bike friendly. If Urban Outfitters carrying bikes helps to get a few hundred more cyclists on the streets, great!
Geez, some of you fools are drinkin' the haterade!
Fixed or free, just let it be. You remind me of my politically angry grandfather.
We couriers will make fun of you for your new poser mobile. but at least it will give a break from picking on your fall out boy bangs. Never buy your concert t’s at hot topics. I’m just sayin
"BTW: People still don’t realize that the guy who runs Urban Outfitters is getting the last ironic laugh…?
He’s a huge donator to the right-wing agenda."
Seriously Mark?
Are you as paranoid as that? It's a gigantic conspiracy and all the big money people are in on it… they're putting chemicals in your Kentucky Fried Chicken to make you crave for it… GET A GRIP TOOL.
Bikes are bikes; let people ride what they want. Just because you think it’s cool to ride around on a bike ill suited for most rides doesn’t mean I have to hate you, although it does mean I WILL mock you.
People I know it is commercialized crap… but it has two wheels and a chain.
If it gets people burning fat instead of oil, and brings a smile to their faces
what is the problem? Bikes are good for everyone!!! Just ride and let ride!
A bike is a bike. This maybe a shit bike but it will probably get a lot of people riding which is great. They will buy this turd then ride it. Learn some shit and realize its a turd. Buy a better bike and ride that. Hopefully this "trend" or "fad" or whatever will continue because its fucking harmless and gets fat asses outside and exercising. People need to chill. Oh, and JC? There's some truth to what Mark up there said. Look into it.
Damn, nah once the fad ends, bikes will be stupid again cause they won't be cool. Wish I'd got in on the ground floor of this one, pretties girls of any scenes i've been in!
Urban Outfitters outfits you with what you need to be urban. Hollister will prolly sell the preppy fixed gears (beach cruisers) soon-
Unicycles are the new fixed gear! More Bikes Less Cars. It does not matter where they come from.
1st
ha ha posers.
rad!
Whats a fixed gear?
i thought these kind of bikes were track bikes..the ones that have been around for ahh over 100 years.
and why does it look like a 2 year old painted this?
im surprised they didnt label the tires as ORGANIC.
wow this must be the worlds biggest fashion accessory.
ride on FRUITS.
ITT:
I LIKED THIS BAND BACK WHEN THEY HADNT EVEN HAD THEIR FIRST REHEARSAL
I SURFED ON A PIECE OF CORK BACK IN THE DAY BEFORE THEY MADE SURFBOARDS WITH FLAMES ON THEM
I WAS A VEGETARIAN BEFORE TOFU WAS ON TV
I RODE A STUPID OVERPRICED BIKE WITHOUT BRAKES WAY BEFORE YOU RODE A STUPID SLIGHTLY LESS OVERPRICED BIKE IN ZANY COLORS WITH BRAKES
Looks like FG ripped off the douchebag BMX mentality.
Im going to go ride my bike.
The bike's got a flip flop hub, thus the back brake. This hub let's you choose if you want a regular 1-speed or a fixed gear. Ya it's probably a pretty shitty bike but whatever, if it gets more people riding then I'm all for it. This is an inevitable extension of the fad that is fixed gear bikes. I'm sure some of the bike shop clerks will be relieved when they don't have to deal with as many clueless hipsters coming through their doors looking for a fixie with colored deep Vs and a top tube pad armed with daddy's cred it card; although they prolly won't appreciate the hipster revenue that urban's taking from them.
Fuck fixed gear bikes and the ridiculous culture that goes a long with it. You looking fucking silly in your child-sized hat. ONE MORE CAR !
Oh you funny hipsters, you're all the same. Thank's for making me giggle
also dear ross, i loved that post.
Humans: stop hating what's different and/or the same. Love the person, not the bike. Less cars/less cars/less cars. Get it?
Leaving a rant about how lame UA's bikes are on this obvious buzz add (some of these responses were crafted by UA marketing people) for UA only drives traffic and business to UA.
Oh, and their legal team required them to put a rear brake on it. Just take it off if it bothers you.
Oh, and it's a flip-flop hub sooooo, no freewheel soooo, yes it's a fixie.
hipsters calling the kettle black…i didn't know it was a contest! buy your bike locally and who gives a flying **** if your bike has fixed gears or not! it does not make you cooler or an authentic hipster – oxymoron? i think so.
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