Originally Posted by
lostarchitect
... it turns out she was riding a fixed gear bike in NYC back in the 70's. Whenever some "OG" gives me ****, I tell them about Sue, who was riding fixed BEFORE this city was sparkley clean and BEFORE they were even ****ing born. OG my ass.
I was introduced to FGs sometime around '84 in Boston by people who'd been riding them long before I even outgrew my Schwinn Krate. 'New' stuff is like 'kinky' sex... every generation thinks that they 'invented' it because there's no way their parents and older generations could possibly have known about it much less having done it.