The Great Hipster Decline

Sorry Hipsters, it seems your becoming extinct. Not as a culture, or anti-culture, or whatever the heck hipsters are.  Just the rest of societies willingness to listen to anything you say, pay for anything you want to do, or deal with you at all.   Specifically, the world of cycling sends a bicycle type back to its origins.  Your flagship transportation, the hipster fixie, is officially dying, single speed fixed gears will return to tracks and training as God intended.  .  I come to this epiphany from a simple social gauge...

Fixie the Hipsters

Actual clip from the Douche Bag Rag.

Bike Snob NYC recently revealed that Hipsters are beginning to abandon the Fixie bike for those with brakes and gears and stuff.  Further proof was published in the official Hipster news source at left.  Since reading this, it has dawned on me that there have been a lot more craigslist ads for Fixies, as well as a number of Fixie parts kits up for sale.  Great.  This means that they are going to invade and pervert some other angle of cycling culture.  Soon bearded socialist types will be buzzing about on BMX's or maybe they will adopt fat tire beach cruisers.  Either way they will meet resistance from the cultures that are already in place.   Sure, a few will sneak their way into the landscape of any of the cultures, like tumbleweeds in a western movie, but once shots are fired they will blow off screen just as fast as they entered.

What a Concept 2

I have decided to make the  "What the ____! The "What a Concept" Post" into a weekly offering.  Not just because of its success, but due to the fact that I run across bad ideas, good ideas, and plain scary ones constantly.  So every Friday a new concept, or maybe two will be offered.

Another feature of the concept post is going to be a rating scale.  Simple really, it will be from 1-6 on the Hipster scale.  The more Hipsters on the scale, the more ridiculous, more Einstein, the more brilliant.  See the scales below, then continue on for the 2nd edition of the "What a Concept" post.

Ridiculous!

 Brilliant!