Spreading across the thoroughfares and avenues of gentrified and campus America; like an ungodly plague, the fixie hipster is sullying the image of cycling.
In layman's terms a fixie hipster describes the average hipster riding atop a fixed gear bicycle often termed as a fixie. Although the heritage of fixed gear cycling dates to professional couriers, messengers, and track cycling. It is unclear how this style of cycling became popular with fixie hipsters. However, it is generally believed that owning a fixed gear bicycle has been labeled "trendy" within hipster culture.
In layman's terms a fixie hipster describes the average hipster riding atop a fixed gear bicycle often termed as a fixie. Although the heritage of fixed gear cycling dates to professional couriers, messengers, and track cycling. It is unclear how this style of cycling became popular with fixie hipsters. However, it is generally believed that owning a fixed gear bicycle has been labeled "trendy" within hipster culture.
Lars: So I spent 300 dollars to get matte white Aerospokes on my pastel green fixie. It also has matching tape wrapped around the handlebars. It's the only way to ride these days. It's great when going across campus. It beats rolling around on those passé free-wheelers.
Brett: Those are some nice decorations you got there Lars. What's the sprocket size on your bike?
Lars: umm 62....
Brett: Well, do you take it to the velodrome on the weekends? I bet that rig is pretty light. Real quick on the tracks!
Lars: uhh...I use it to go get a cappuccino.
Brett: Hey you might wanna put an additional braking mechanism on to decrease your braking distance. Don't wanna slam into things buddy.
Lars: Dude that'll destroy the minimalistic, bare bones aesthetic of my bike! It's a fixie bro! Besides I use my feet to brake for emergencies.
Brett: It's just for safety sake dude. Besides how the hell can you even ride a bike comfortably in those tight slacks and slip on shoes. God what a fixie hipster!
Brett: Those are some nice decorations you got there Lars. What's the sprocket size on your bike?
Lars: umm 62....
Brett: Well, do you take it to the velodrome on the weekends? I bet that rig is pretty light. Real quick on the tracks!
Lars: uhh...I use it to go get a cappuccino.
Brett: Hey you might wanna put an additional braking mechanism on to decrease your braking distance. Don't wanna slam into things buddy.
Lars: Dude that'll destroy the minimalistic, bare bones aesthetic of my bike! It's a fixie bro! Besides I use my feet to brake for emergencies.
Brett: It's just for safety sake dude. Besides how the hell can you even ride a bike comfortably in those tight slacks and slip on shoes. God what a fixie hipster!
by Define Me! April 30, 2009
Get the fixie hipster mug.oh man... OH MAN! OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN! whoever wrote that definition before me. THAT is pretentious hipster talk. Hipsters are never okay and they don't actually have opinions, obnoxious or otherwise. They merely conform to unpopular fashions. That's it. That's all. It's a self-entitled way to feign social awkwardness that people with their total lack of worthwhile qualities and talent would be feeling as genuine outcasts if they didn't secretly believe themselves superior and ironically hilarious. In this way, it's also an attempt to cash in on attention using geek chic. They don't care about winning arguments because they don't have beliefs except the above. Pretentious people try to sound smarter than they are, e.g. by making dissonantly unnecessary references to counter culture figures, but hipsters are so far beyond pretentious that they think appreciation of meaningless t-shirt slogans is enough to elevate them to social icon status. This makes the phrase pretentious hipster so redundant that it should just be shortened to hipster, except when describing what hipsters talk about; ie pretentious hipster bullshit, such as "I met that indie rock singer. She's an argyle superstar." A hipster is a therefore a psychological trainwreck that should be avoided until he/she inevitably ruins itself.
1: Are you going to use Scorsese references in your pretentious hipster bullshit this weekend?
2: No, film is too mainstream. I'm just sucking fame's dick in a general way until someone tells me a new way to seem unique.
2: No, film is too mainstream. I'm just sucking fame's dick in a general way until someone tells me a new way to seem unique.
by toot-swat plan November 22, 2010
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Pretty self-explanatory - someone who thinks they're a hipster.
This type of person is in abundance on Twitter, usually with the screen name 'Sheldon Cooper'. They also have a habit of ending tweets with 'though', despite the actual tweet having no relation to anything. They also use other annoying buzzwords on Twitter. In addition to this, they think that liking The Big Bang Theory and bacon makes them look really edgy and random, and they all seem to think they're socially awkward despite tweeing their life stories to thousands of followers.
Commonly confused with real hipsters. However, whilst real hipsters stay true to the definition and listen to obscure, unheard of musical acts, Hipster Wannabes like currently popular acts despite them thinking that they're alternative for doing so, such as OFWGKTA, You Me At Six, Two Door Cinema Club, Arctic Monkeys and Foster The People.
They are an evolution of the Scene Kid from the mid-2000s, only more obnoxious and pretentious, and even less self-aware.
This type of person is in abundance on Twitter, usually with the screen name 'Sheldon Cooper'. They also have a habit of ending tweets with 'though', despite the actual tweet having no relation to anything. They also use other annoying buzzwords on Twitter. In addition to this, they think that liking The Big Bang Theory and bacon makes them look really edgy and random, and they all seem to think they're socially awkward despite tweeing their life stories to thousands of followers.
Commonly confused with real hipsters. However, whilst real hipsters stay true to the definition and listen to obscure, unheard of musical acts, Hipster Wannabes like currently popular acts despite them thinking that they're alternative for doing so, such as OFWGKTA, You Me At Six, Two Door Cinema Club, Arctic Monkeys and Foster The People.
They are an evolution of the Scene Kid from the mid-2000s, only more obnoxious and pretentious, and even less self-aware.
Real Hipster: "I think I'm gonna listen to some Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and then head out to drink some Hungarian lager whilst discussing the latest Sufjan Stevens record"
Hipster Wannabe: "Socially awkward but happy because bacon, The Big Bang Theory and You Me At Six though ok"
Hipster Wannabe: "Socially awkward but happy because bacon, The Big Bang Theory and You Me At Six though ok"
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1: Hey, we're having a hippie picnic this weekend in the park, do you want to come?
2: Sure, I'll bring the sandwhiches. And the weed.
2: Sure, I'll bring the sandwhiches. And the weed.
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