Need Supply Co. x Carytown Bicycle Company Fashionable Fixie Collaboration

so why is this bike $2,450

@Steve
Worse, he’s a fakerjack

Didn’t this whole hipster scene die like 3yrs ago?

This is the new fake-lumberjack thing. Like those Best Made Co. axes that cost twice as much as the exact same thing from Garret Wade. Still unclear why fake lumberjacks need to ride fixed gears . . .

I guess someone needs to keep the economy moving, might as well be well-endowed (with a trust fund) hipsters.

Its a bike. Like it or don’t. Leave the hate at home.

(I’m only amused that he changed shoes to ride the bike.)

For that kind of coinage it should come with a belt drive to keep hipster jeans lube free.

These are the sort of fluff articles that I do wish the bikerumor folks would exercise a little editorial control over. I understand that all blogs and sites get or find these sorts of press releases on a regular basis, but I would love it if you, the staff, would take a written stance on these somewhat comedic sales pitches, or simply not pass them along. Not even offering a peep one way or the other on a bike that is about $1000 more expensive than it should be seems, to me, to be tacit approval for this sort of product and practice.

I know it’s your site and you’re welcome to do with it as you please, but I think it’d be nicer for the readers if you could give some context as to why you chose to run an item. I like your reviews and I love your spy work and forthcoming product info, but stuff like this just really irks me.

“At the beginning of the project, Ricioppo didn’t know jack about bikes, and Mullins and his team weren’t exactly fashionably-inclined.”

From the GQ article. All you need to know.

You all get this completely wrong. First of all, this is not just a pedestrian (p.i.) paint job, but a colorway. colorways cost much more to produce than paint schemes. Same is for the parts – on the surface, they look like cheap & standard bike stuff, but you have to factor in that they are totally hand-curated. Curation is a very high intensity mental and physical process that consumes a lot of energy and time – time of a designer-dude, and gosh these folk don’t work for cheap! All in all, I can totally see that this is quite a bargain, all things considered.

In the third picture, you can see his panty-line.

I know I’ll get sh*t on for saying this but…Bike exposure in an unforeseen place? I guess that works…who really cares if it is some materialistic fashion mag. The people that read this mag have money too which could help drive the bicycling industry. Maybe they will be influenced to use a bicycle, or actially be more aware of cyclists, maybe even vote for certain bills/laws that involve cycling after seeing these photos. I haven’t heard of any one busting popular mechanics for publishing some whacked out looking future bicycle photos.

i believe the quote goes like this.. ” if you’re in advertising or marketing go kill yourself right now”

might you be floating on a GQ trendy fashion raft on this judgemental sea of hate then, mr.p? anything creative is judged instantly by whoever, whenever, for whatever.

It looks like an excellent hunting bike.

You guys better be nice. That guy grows up to be Santa.

Is the faux lumberjack stupid? Yes. Is this $2000+ steel fixie stupid? Yes. Is this article stupid? No.

Unlike most other commenters, I am all for the explosion of bike culture whether it is commuters on hybrids, hipsters on fixies, or the lycra clad weekend warriors.

So, I say bring it on bikerumor. I love these stories. As for my comment on this article, I think the bike looks good. It definitely fits in need supply’s aesthetic. However, the only decent part of the hipster fixie culture is that it originally had a lot of people that customized their bikes. This is for someone with a trust fund that can’t be bothered to actually create an interesting fixie, they just want to look the part.