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The shoutout to Victoria on the Stuff White People Like blog cracked me up:
"But not all white people love bicycles in the same way, there is much diversity. First up, we have the younger urban white folks who absolutely love their fixed gear bicycles. These are seen all over college towns, Silverlake in LA, Williamsburg in Brooklyn, Queen West in Toronto, and Victoria, British Columbia. Fixed gear bicycles meet a lot of requirements for white person acceptance. They can be made from older (i.e. vintage) bicycles, thus allowing the rider to have a unique bike that is unlikely to be ridden by anyone else in town. They are also easily customizable with expensive things Aerospoke rims, Phil Wood Hubs, and Nitto Parts. The combination of rare bicycles and expensive parts makes it easy for white people to judge other white people on the quality and originality of their bicycles. This is important in determining if someone is or isn’t cooler than you."
hee!
stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/61-bicycles/
"But not all white people love bicycles in the same way, there is much diversity. First up, we have the younger urban white folks who absolutely love their fixed gear bicycles. These are seen all over college towns, Silverlake in LA, Williamsburg in Brooklyn, Queen West in Toronto, and Victoria, British Columbia. Fixed gear bicycles meet a lot of requirements for white person acceptance. They can be made from older (i.e. vintage) bicycles, thus allowing the rider to have a unique bike that is unlikely to be ridden by anyone else in town. They are also easily customizable with expensive things Aerospoke rims, Phil Wood Hubs, and Nitto Parts. The combination of rare bicycles and expensive parts makes it easy for white people to judge other white people on the quality and originality of their bicycles. This is important in determining if someone is or isn’t cooler than you."
hee!
stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/61-bicycles/
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Re: white kids on bikes
Thu, February 21, 2008 - 9:56 AMheheh... it's funny 'cause it's true. -
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Re: white kids on bikes
Thu, February 21, 2008 - 1:29 PMsomebody from portland told me that bike culture is seen there as the vanguard of gentrification. i guess this is true. i am an old guy who has lived in east van for 40 years. i raised my kids here and their friends were many nationalities, and we have several mixed nationality relationships in our family.
so now i hang out with biker punks the same age as my kids and the bikers are loudly politically correct but white white white. the biker punks also say ignorant things about immigration and cultural differences.
what is going on?
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