I still don't get who the Friendly Fellas are, but that's all a little irrelevant.

Personally, I wouldn't really appreciate someone complimenting my 'fixie', any more than a dedicated roadie would appreciate 'hey nice tropical-fish-Lance-Armstrong-bike' or a vintage Camaro restorer would appreciate 'hey cool I saw that in Transformers 2'.

I wouldn't flip my lid, but I would regard the 'compliment' with skepticism until I could judge if the compliment was honest or not.