King of the Hipsters, you have defended your rightful crown.

I maintain my disbelief. It's just a machine. It's a beautiful, simple, direct machine with two bearings around each of four axises (wheels, crank, and headtube) making a rolling conglomerate of metal and rubber.

A single blade of grass is as much testament to our relationship with reality as the most expertly crafted NJS, hand-drawn chromoly steel, scandium septuple butted aluminum, carbon injection hydroformed sex panther doused bike will ever be. Sure as salt, it's easier to recognize and assign meaning to certain objects over others when confronted with such a feeling of connection... but easier don't make right. it don't make better. it don't make meaningful.

to convey such a meaning to others and to attribute it to the ideal of a fixed gear bike is doing a disservice to reality, fixed gear bikes and yourself.