{"id":675,"date":"2009-07-17T12:52:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2009-07-17T12:52:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:52:49","slug":"one-less-fixie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/one-less-fixie\/","title":{"rendered":"one less fixie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from an article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manolith.com\/2009\/07\/13\/fixies-fad\/\">13 reasons why the fixie fad should end<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article uses a photo of the rare San Francisco Bike Messenger Association (SFBMA) belt buckle, from this blog. Only 25 of those were ever made<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/3729542842\/\" title=\"sfbma.belt.buckle (by auweia)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2439\/3729542842_2e39bcd337.jpg\" title=\"sfbma.belt.buckle (by auweia)\" alt=\"sfbma.belt.buckle (by auweia)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most recent victim of this trend is that of the once-edgy bike messengers. Actual bike messengers are now faced with the decision to either just suck it up and be confused with mobs of posers, or simply change careers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>this is a a real San Francisco bike messenger. His name is Junior and has been around forever. Nobody confuses him with fixie poseurs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/3605397967\/\" title=\"P1010714 (by auweia)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3416\/3605397967_9be4b302ca.jpg\" title=\"P1010714 (by auweia)\" alt=\"P1010714 (by auweia)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Real bike messengers work hard, and some get seriously injured or even killed in accidents. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a risky job, and often a thankless one, with their main clients being the snobby suits in high-rise buildings who want their parcels ASAP. Posers running around acting like the real deal damage any respect these guys have earned, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty damn lame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>yep, pretty lame<\/p>\n<p>this is a real San Francisco bike messenger work bike, high up in the woods of Purisima Creek redwoods in San Mateo county. It&#8217;s over 20 years old, the original steel frame model and no longer made, and hard to find these days. You will never ever see a fixie out in the woods like that, climbing up dirt trails at 2000 feet<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/3517710176\/\" title=\"P1010557 (by auweia)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3617\/3517710176_d54f8f0f58.jpg\" title=\"P1010557 (by auweia)\" alt=\"P1010557 (by auweia)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>one less fixie, indeed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/3728740619\/\" title=\"one_less_fixie (by auweia)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2463\/3728740619_f7a4c3578e.jpg\" title=\"one_less_fixie (by auweia)\" alt=\"one_less_fixie (by auweia)\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>also, Berlin has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/berlin-gives-fixies-das-boot\/\">banned fixies<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from an article 13 reasons why the fixie fad should end The article uses a photo of the rare San Francisco Bike Messenger Association (SFBMA) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-bike","tag-3-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}