Hipsterville ..... a new BB frontier ....

[dibblecorse]

I have started this thread to be a home for all the hipsters and their hipster bikes, beard creams and artisan beer and coffee discussions ....

This should hopefully keep the rest of BB free for bikers ....

Enjoy ...

Dibs

[Ed.]

I have an xsr900, a tobacco leather jacket and jeans but no beard. Do I qualify?

[airsafari87]

Bell Bullet helmet and a mesh snap back cap fastened to the belt loop of your jeans too??

[trickywoo]

Ed. said:

I have an xsr900, a tobacco leather jacket and jeans but no beard. Do I qualify?

Depends. Do you shave or just can't grow one?

[ar-em-en]

I've had long hair for more than half my life, my man bun is entirely out of practicality /laziness.

I don't own anything hipster ish although I was 9 when my srad was built so maybe I need to talk more about how 'retro' it is?

[dibblecorse]

ar-em-en said:

I've had long hair for more than half my life, my man bun is entirely out of practicality /laziness.

I don't own anything hipster ish although I was 9 when my srad was built so maybe I need to talk more about how 'retro' it is?

Man bun and Gixxer, you sir are completely in the wrong place ,,,,,, may I suggest you try Crawley ......

[Krikkit]

I own a beard and like weird beer... I feel like I'm half way to hipster credit for this thread.

[SamR380]

I've got a 'tache and an air cooled Moto Guzzi, who wants to meet for vegan coffee some time?

Maybe we could talk about how we secretly wish we were cool enough to ride a Gixxer in a one-piece suit.

[croyde]

dibblecorse said:

ar-em-en said:

I've had long hair for more than half my life, my man bun is entirely out of practicality /laziness.

I don't own anything hipster ish although I was 9 when my srad was built so maybe I need to talk more about how 'retro' it is?

Man bun and Gixxer, you sir are completely in the wrong place ,,,,,, may I suggest you try Crawley ......

[dibblecorse]

SamR380 said:

I've got a 'tache and an air cooled Moto Guzzi, who wants to meet for vegan coffee some time?

Maybe we could talk about how we secretly wish we were cool enough to ride a Gixxer with tiny LED indicators, trackday bodywork and a 'daytime MOT' in camo trousers and a Monster energy hoodie on one wheel

Fixed that for you .....

[srob]

I have a beard, ride cafe racers, like decent beer, and I’m too young to buy a sports bike.

Sad that I’m not a real biker any more.

[Ed.]

airsafari87 said:

Bell Bullet helmet and a mesh snap back cap fastened to the belt loop of your jeans too??

Normal looking HJC, no cap

trickywoo said:

Ed. said:

I have an xsr900, a tobacco leather jacket and jeans but no beard. Do I qualify?

Depends. Do you shave or just can't grow one?

Have to every couple of days to keep it at bay, perhaps the inner hipster is trying to break out. No coffee either.

[crofty1984]

Pah! I liked liking things before they were cool before liking things before they were cool was cool.

[Biker 1]

I own a Shark Vancore lid (most uncomfortable, noisy, drafty piece of st I've ever worn on a bike) - does that count?
Oh, & Mrs B bought a bottle of gin with cranberry & herb flavouring from Sainsburys the other day - she liked the pink colour, but it turned out the bottle itself was tinted pink & the liquid clear.....

[crofty1984]

I have to laugh. Hipsters are the generation after the old guard and are therefore disapproved of by the oldies. Like the old guard weren't disapproved of by their dads on their M20s and flat tank triumphs!

Be rebellious! But only in the way I tell you!

I'm all for more people getting into bikes. Especially as a lot of them seem to be into the greasy fingernails custom scene. Good for them. Or should we go back to the good old days of camo hoodies, combats and Gixxers?

[Stone Cold]

R9T - tick
Beard - tick
Like craft beer and Gin - tick
Tatty brown jacket -tick
Jeans - tick
Brown boots - tick
Open face helmet and aviator goggles -tick

I guess I’m fully paid up

[BrassMan]

Bike - SV650S, no.
Beard - No, a handlebar moustache.
Long hair - I just get a huge Jew-Fro, so no.
Artesian coffee - the well collapsed, so it's white tea with bergamot.
Craft beer - Rum.
Jacket - matrix era trench coat.

So by not being a hipster, I am become Hipster.

[Harji]

Hipsters started in the early 90's, i think I was a pioneer, I wore plaid shirts, ripped jeans, ripped because I wore them to death, converse, because they were cheap and I listened to Nirvana and other grunge bands like Mudhoney along with Brit bands like The Charlatans, Ride, Neds Atomic Dustbin etc etc. We bought second hand clothes because we were students and rode bicycles, because we were students, we had long hair and hairy faces because we were lazy and students. We recycled and drank ale (The Wine Vaults in Portsmouth it was next to a laundrette and thus my first introduction to Real Ale).

Everything else from then on is fake, and these 'retro' motorcycles are abit of a joke unless they do it with a modern take, no fake carbs please! I think the z900rs Kawasaki is the best of the lot.

NB I still wear plaid shirts and jeans that I never wash, but I don't wear Converse because they cost more than my bike now.

[mygoldfishbowl]

Stone Cold said:

R9T - tick
Beard - tick
Like craft beer and Gin - tick
Tatty brown jacket -tick
Jeans - tick
Brown boots - tick
Open face helmet and aviator goggles -tick

I guess I’m fully paid up

I think you may be possibly wrong. I sometimes qualify in the last four of your list, minus the goggles, and I'm the anti-hipster.

[ar-em-en]

dibblecorse said:

ar-em-en said:

I've had long hair for more than half my life, my man bun is entirely out of practicality /laziness.

I don't own anything hipster ish although I was 9 when my srad was built so maybe I need to talk more about how 'retro' it is?

Man bun and Gixxer, you sir are completely in the wrong place ,,,,,, may I suggest you try Crawley ......

I've just read that and become very aware of the umbro tracksuit bottoms that I'm adorned in...