Originally Posted by
Aaron_F
All fads eventually die.
A few hardcore fixed riders will continue on because they actually prefer to ride fixed. The rest of the frat boys and hipsters will eventually sell their silly-colored bikes, get real jobs, put on weight, and forget they ever had a bike.
Hahahaha the latter paragraph never occurred to me. I gradually switched to single speed w/ coast brake to fixed in the past 11 years I've been riding. I just LIKE the control, feeling, and work-out of riding fixed gears. The though of worrying about aesthetics over quality (cough Urban Outiftter bikes? "LOL") and looking through Craigslist for some cool Deep V's to color coordinate with the rest of the bike... That never entered my head as the primary reason to own a bike. Although, as a person of art and fashion, I do consider the aesthetics somewhere after quality of the ride.