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Posted 13 years ago #
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*meh* I think the dandies might get the message soon and leave fixies to the nutters :)
I also note there is no shots of his attempts to ride the thing...
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yeah people who wear glasses without a prescription just annoy me. They're not allowed into the club unless they've got bad eyesight!
I'd love to see him riding it in flip-flops and those baggy culottes, I'd give him 30 seconds before he did a faceplant. I too presume it does little more than get pushed from the SUV in the carpark to the hair products shop and back again.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Kudos I suppose for managing to avoid barking his shins on the pedals or giving himself a chain tattoo pushing on the drive side. And not riding on the pavement. And getting out riding with his kids. Actually I don't see much wrong with it aside from his brakes going missing.
Posted 13 years ago # -
For a moment there I thought Henry Rollins had lost weight! And Mr Beckham, I think your tattoo artist has missed a bit on your legs. The bike's pretty stylin' though.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I was thinking more David Bowie (2nd pic).
Posted 13 years ago # -
oh man i just noticed what his kids are not wearing...
*ducks*
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Glasses!
Posted 13 years ago # -
I'd bet good money that there will be howls of protest over the kids (who are unquestionably about to die in a minute or two from exploding raw egg head death), but nobody will mutter about the fact that he's got a brakeless bike with flat pedals and flip-flops...
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I would get very confused with both glasses and sunglasses. He should really have both propped on his forehead to make a style statement.
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I would get very confused with both glasses and sunglasses.
Beckahm just ain't cool enought to pull off the "dad on the holiday" look with a pair of flip-up sunglass attachments for his designer noneglasses
Posted 13 years ago # -
What about the old British standard, the handkerchief knotted at each corner? Could he pull off that fashion? Not so much Real Madrid as Real Margate.
Posted 13 years ago # -
He's gonna have fun riding that brakeless fixie with no foot retention in flip flops
........... jeezso!Posted 13 years ago # -
Well, to give him the benefit of the doubt, the fact that he's wearing flip-flops would explain why he's not riding the bike... Maybe he's just bought it and is off home to swap the pedals and get his SPDs on?
Other than that comment, I'd just like to say I'm all for this sort of thing.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Just an ordinary multizillionaire dad out for a ride with his kids. Becks has a lot of influence on his fans so if he encourages them to get out with their weans on bikes then that is a Good Thing.
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^ what Min said ^
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"^ what Min said ^"
Yeah I think Min wins the prize for focussing away from 'our' cycling perspective to the parents/kids/influence/Mail world.
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Call me a cynic (because, I am!) however I'd wager that 99% of the reasoning behind being pictured with a bike (that I wholeheartedly believe he has no intention of riding) is to make a fashion statement. The fashionable red and black fixie was chosen with as much care and attention to detail as every other part of his wardrobe and every accessory he was carrying or wearing. I also think if it was going straight into the large, black Range Rover pictured at the bottom of the article.
I think what this exemplifies is the buying a bike as a fashion accessory or statement then putting it straight in the shed (or 15-car garage), never for it to come out again.
I feel sorry for that bike, it's never going to be treasured and loved and it's never going to bring joy into someone's life. No one is going to clean and oil it's chain, make sure it's tyres are at operating pressure and no one is going to get upset when the paint gets a chip or get excited when they buy a new bit for it..
I can see the positive side of anything :)
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"Yeah I think Min wins the prize for focussing away from 'our' cycling perspective to the parents/kids/influence/Mail world."
Min: Fearlessly delving in to the psyche of the Daily Mail
reader. Then running away screaming.Posted 13 years ago # -
'Well, to give him the benefit of the doubt, the fact that he's wearing flip-flops would explain why he's not riding the bike... Maybe he's just bought it and is off home to swap the pedals and get his SPDs on?'
Yeah that's what's gonna happen. He's gonna take it home to his shed and get the tool box out then ' Victoria have you seen my pedal spanner?' aah huh aah huh ah huh huh huh! No my friend I think Kaputnik's even closer to the mark than me.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Victoria have you seen my pedal spanner?
that's a snorting coffee out my nose moment!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Today i saw a guy coming down from Bruntsfeild on his 'fixie' only he'd obviously gotten tired of the fixed part and converted it to freewheel. Thing is, it still had no breaks. His footwear? Espadrilles...
Posted 13 years ago # -
At the moment when I take my polystyrene bunnet off I have three separate mohican type ridges in my hair linked to the holes in the bunnet, I wouldn't want such a fate to befall anyone interested in how they look
Posted 13 years ago # -
We need a photo of the top of your heid!
I think I saw one of these bikes in the High Street this afternoon. It was missing its saddle, hopefully it's owner had just taken it away for safe keeping..
Posted 13 years ago # -
I think what this exemplifies is the buying a bike as a fashion accessory or statement then putting it straight in the shed (or 15-car garage), never for it to come out again.
That's the kind of business I'd like ;-)
Bikes as objects d'art to be hung on one's wall (the lighter ones of course!)
Problem is that people insist on using them and loading them up with touring stuff etc...!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Ridiculous comment about pedal wrenches, recombodna. The Beckhams are sure to have a purpose built bike mechanic's garage in the bottom of their garden, complete with a Rapha apron-clad man who deals with their pedal wrench issues.
Whatever's going on, it's a man who a lot of folk look up to with a bike, with his kids on bikes, in the press. What's not to like?
Posted 13 years ago # -
it's a man who a lot of folk look up to
an equal amount of people look the other way at him! :)
Posted 13 years ago # -
@PS I said SPANNER.
Posted 13 years ago # -
So you did.
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