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Last Post 11/03/2014 11:27 AM by Jim Johnson. 8 Replies.
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jmdirt

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10/31/2014 12:26 PM
So it seems that 99% of guys who ride single speeds have ZZ top beards now. I know hipster beards are in, but its funny how SS and big beards are a package deal (at least in Boise). The same could have been said for goatees and mountain bikers for many years I guess.
LouM

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10/31/2014 01:47 PM
I'm not one of them. I have a hard time getting my sideburns to connect. So I can imagine what a full beard would look like on me. Probably like the guy that had plastic surgery on "Team America World Police". I think I have that picture saved somewhere as a reminder to myself to never step away from the razor.
I do have a mustache and trimmed goatee though.

Lou...
THE SKINNY

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10/31/2014 02:13 PM
it's laziness. too lazy to shift, too lazy to shave.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
79pmooney

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10/31/2014 03:13 PM
I've been wearing a full beard for the last 13 years. Started after my very hard crash. Walked out of the hospital (4 days later) with a good start and enough opiates that the itch never got noticed. Raising my arms above shoulder level was both painful and tiring, so opting to start a beard was an easy choice.

Discovered it also helped with my allergies. Keeps dust off my skin. I sleep better with it when conditions aren't perfect.

I was riding my fixie when I crashed, so maybe there is a little of that also! But hipster, nah! I"m the guy who was riding fixed before they were born (and with the brakes I always use, probably after they die).

Ben
Nick A

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11/01/2014 01:39 PM
Is an SS Beard, a SS you buy, but never ride, to hide the fact that you really like road bikes?

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longslowdistance

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11/01/2014 05:30 PM
" But hipster, nah! I"m the guy who was riding fixed before they were born"

But Ben, that's so ironic, don't you see? Hipster nirvana!
79pmooney

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11/01/2014 06:51 PM
lsd, being cool/hipster nirvana wasn't remotely part of my thinking. It was all about racing training and reliable, rideable Boston winter riding. (Crashed less often and was almost always rideable after those crashes. As a non-car owner, that was important.)

I loved riding fixed from day one, but that bike was so funky it raises the question - can you find nirvana in the slums of Bombay? (The wheels being in parallel planes would have been pure chance. Same plane? Maybe the first two years.)

Ben
longslowdistance

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11/01/2014 10:15 PM
You miss my point.
Hipster holy trinity:
low impact
alt alt alt
and irony above all.
The tight pants, PBR and soul patches are just details.
vtguy

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11/03/2014 11:27 AM
Interesting timing of this post. Our local hospital just began a "No-Shave November" as a fund raiser and all the men at my job are participating. It will be the first time in over 40-years that I'll have gone more than 3-days without shaving. I've already noticed that I have 5-minutes more to ride in the morning.
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