# Australian Financial Review Does Fixies
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916
**Category:** Pub
**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916 "2007-10-25T17:40:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/1 "2007-10-25T17:40:03Z")
Time to find a new hobby now that Fixies are totally sold out? :evil:
Good to see Andy getting a mention, albeit brief.
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### Author:  [@system](https://fixed.org.au/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/2 "2007-10-25T18:00:40Z")
I don’t understand it… Is there some sort of newspeak in Sydney these days?
F-- See me after class!
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### Author:  [@nexus](https://fixed.org.au/u/nexus)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/3 "2007-10-25T18:31:23Z")
In Saturdays paper there was one of those “look how pretty my house is” articles, with a Bianchi PISTA posed in the loungeroom! I almost spewed… time to move on. Shut the website down and lets have a ceremonial burning of fixed.org.au woollen jerseys at 7am in Fed Sqr.
I’m off to Kmart to get me a Huffy MTB !
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### Author:  [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/4 "2007-10-25T18:46:49Z")
So true…
Typical that the guy featured isn’t wearing a helmet… and also where the hell did the journalist get the idea that fixies were a spinoff of ‘surfie-like street culture’? Maybe in Sydney Garth? :evil:
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### Author:  [@system](https://fixed.org.au/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/5 "2007-10-25T18:59:42Z")
> [@nexus](#):
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> […] time to move on […]
Nah… it’s still good! Just go for a ride 🙂
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Commuter](https://fixed.org.au/u/Captain_Commuter)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/6 "2007-10-25T19:04:29Z")
> [@ndf](#):
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> > [@nexus](#):
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> > […] time to move on […]
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> Nah… it’s still good! Just go for a ride 🙂
and keep an eye on the 'bay and the Trading Post - in about 6mths to a year there’ll be a flood of fashionista’s fixies flogged for fuck-all
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### Author:  [@JP1](https://fixed.org.au/u/JP1)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/7 "2007-10-25T19:09:21Z")
this is a good thing! now that the fin review is onto it, tight pant cool guy jamal will think his too out there to be associated with photographer sam and commuter brian, sell his stuff off to mainstream norm, when mainstream norm gets into it, photographer sam will want to distance himself from that “commoner” who still drinks VB, then we have normal people getting into bikes! some of them will love it, some wont, the docklands will be full of fixed gear bikes for about 3 months and then, finally, all parts will come flooding back to those who really love it…
“moving on” now is out of the question… encouraging others to do so is DEFINATELY a good thing 🙂
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### Author:  [@AL9000](https://fixed.org.au/u/AL9000)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/8 "2007-10-25T20:02:16Z")
> [@hjb1000](#):
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> Typical that the guy featured isn’t wearing a helmet…
Hasn’t BSNYC taught you anything?
He doesn’t need one, because he doesn’t ride it, he just walks it around from the organic food store to the latest hipster bar and takes photos of it to put on velospace…
I still stand by my prediction that townie/commuter/Dutch/Danish bikes are going to be the next big thing, as evidenced by the groundswell from this years bike shows.
We’ve been through the 70s/80s 10 speed, 90’s MTB, 00’s Lance-roadie and I think there was a cruiser mini boom in there somewhere, now it’s time for hub gears, fenders, step through frames, racks, baskets and wearing normal clothes to cycle in.
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### Author:  [@system](https://fixed.org.au/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/9 "2007-10-25T20:09:54Z")
> [@nexus](#):
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> In Saturdays paper there was one of those “look how pretty my house is” articles, with a Bianchi PISTA posed in the loungeroom! I almost spewed… time to move on. Shut the website down and lets have a ceremonial burning of fixed.org.au woollen jerseys at 7am in Fed Sqr.
> I’m off to Kmart to get me a Huffy MTB !
Mate, not everyone lives in a mansion. By virtue of the size of my accommodation, I have bikes in the lounge room too.
And, you would have noticed that he was a part owner of the Autopsy Gallery\* in Balaclava. Another part owner is Jade, aka gappy, a member of this forum. In all likelihood I suspect that you’ve unwittingly paid out on a sometime user/member of this forum!
Face it - we’re hipsters with a bikes in their lougeroom.
And on the article - what a retarded piece of production? Did your scan miss out on the byline of “vintage simplicity back in cycling fashion” by any chance? The ‘Abici’ bike that starts the article is a piece of crap commuter/girls bike with a coaster brake that RG Madden is selling at a stupid price and has little to nothing in common with a fixed gear apart from the apparent 'simplicity of the thing…
[Read](http://bacycles.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/practical-bike-philosophy/) what Mark from Born Again Cycles has to say about the Abici…
\*which has now closed/relocated from Carlisle St.
Actually, that article has to be incomplete, right Horatio? Can you post the full thing please?
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### Author:  [@LAM](https://fixed.org.au/u/LAM)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/10 "2007-10-25T20:16:19Z")
> [@Blakey](#):
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> I still stand by my prediction that townie/commuter/Dutch/Danish bikes are going to be the next big thing, as evidenced by the groundswell from this years bike shows.
> now it’s time for hub gears, fenders, step through frames, racks, baskets and wearing normal clothes to cycle in.
i’ve got this one covered already, you do as well don’t you?
and yep, it will be the next big move, i saw a girl on a [Kronan](http://www.kronan-fietsen.be/bikes/index_en.phtml) in the city a coupla weeks ago.
and it’s a good move. mountain bikes and racing bikes suck for many reasons, cruisers and choppers are even worse, big heavy cheap steel frames
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### Author:  [@snowflake](https://fixed.org.au/u/snowflake)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/11 "2007-10-25T20:19:10Z")
There’s a Kronan shop in Izzett St, Prahran just near the corner of Greville St.
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### Author:  [@christof](https://fixed.org.au/u/christof)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/12 "2007-10-25T20:25:03Z")
Question 1: Who the f\*\*\* learns to ride a bike by watching punkers on youtube?
Question 2: Since when could you call the position that guy would ride in ‘Sit up and beg’?
Question 3: Why is a Sydney homewares store stocking bike stuff? Does that mean my families office furniture store can sell bike stuff too now? Sweet, wholesale prices!
Question 4: Why bladed spokes on a street bike?
Question 5: Where can I get those comfy lookin ergo bars?
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### Author:  [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/13 "2007-10-25T20:27:43Z")
> [@LAM](#):
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> > [@Blakey](#):
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> > I still stand by my prediction that townie/commuter/Dutch/Danish bikes are going to be the next big thing, as evidenced by the groundswell from this years bike shows.
> > now it’s time for hub gears, fenders, step through frames, racks, baskets and wearing normal clothes to cycle in.
>
> i’ve got this one covered already, you do as well don’t you?
> and yep, it will be the next big move, i saw a girl on a [Kronan](http://www.kronan-fietsen.be/bikes/index_en.phtml) in the city a coupla weeks ago.
> and it’s a good move. mountain bikes and racing bikes suck for many reasons, cruisers and choppers are even worse, big heavy cheap steel frames
Yeah I rode a Kronan when I was in Sweden years ago… I don’t understand the attraction- it is possibly the heaviest bike I have ever ridden. The tubing was ridiculous. Sure, maybe it’s good at negotiating mortar pot-holes in war torn 1940’s France, but in the modern city? Nah.
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### Author:  [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/14 "2007-10-25T20:31:31Z")
> [@christof](#):
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> Question 4: Why bladed spokes on a street bike?
Well, bladed are very hot… but I know what you mean :evil:
Haha the thing about Youtube was farking great!
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### Author:  [@LAM](https://fixed.org.au/u/LAM)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/15 "2007-10-25T20:34:27Z")
hmm i didn’t realise they were that heavy. but yeah, i’m sure they could take a near direct hit from an IED.
though the soldiers pushing them through mud -filled trenches probably don’t appreciate that.
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### Author:  [@JP1](https://fixed.org.au/u/JP1)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/16 "2007-10-25T21:03:39Z")
oh, i forgot to mention my fave line… “the cranks of standard bike shops could easily snap under the stresses”… hehehe ahooooohohoho.
god damn we’re hardcore.
and maybe we arent the fixie crowd?
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### Author:  [@damoh](https://fixed.org.au/u/damoh)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/17 "2007-10-25T21:36:33Z")
YEAH, I want a fixie.
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### Author:  [@lats](https://fixed.org.au/u/lats)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/18 "2007-10-25T22:23:02Z")
> [@damoh](#):
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> YEAH, I want a fixie.
Hey,
I’ve heard of this online forum where you might be able to get some cheap second hand parts,
its something like [fixie.org](http://fixie.org), or fixedgear…
something like that 😉
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### Author:  [@damoh](https://fixed.org.au/u/damoh)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/19 "2007-10-25T22:37:05Z")
Do they sell cheap road/track/fixie/vintage/steel/ bikes with hot NJS parts that have been hand polished. Thats what i want oh and with white front areospoke for fully sick PHAT tricks
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### Author:  [@Lupine128](https://fixed.org.au/u/Lupine128)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/australian-financial-review-does-fixies/35916/20 "2007-10-26T00:46:58Z")
fuck.
this, this right here is why they won’t let me have weapons in the shop any more…
i’m going to kill the next fucker that comes in and says he wants a fixie cause they’re cool. an then asks what one is\*.
and while i’m pissed off and ranting, why am i NOT surprised that dues is selling overpriced fixies.
have a look at the motos they are trying to sell and i guess the same person who wants to spend $20K on a rebuilt SR400 manx that’s worth 12, will also spend up big on his Ferrari of a bicycle.
fuck it, i’m going to go kick the cat and work out my frustrations before i go and deal with more of these moronic imbeciles tomorrow…
\*and yes, this does happen. about twice a month at the moment, but it’s getting more regular.
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