Cycling Zeitgeist: Performance or Fashion
August 13, 2009 – 9:20 amMost people are cyclists by necessity. It’s much more efficient to ride a bike than to walk and so on. However, for those serious cyclists who take themselves seriously, it is much more than that. Cycling is a fashion with a myriad of sub-cultures each of which considers itself vastly superior. The ‘fixie’ craze is hopefully tapering off – cyclocross is already on the rise as noted by the number of hipster moustaches accompanying the cyclists.
This clip nicely parodies both the fixie scene as well as the ‘twinkies’ (road cyclists with super-expensive bikes slathered in latex):
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