Originally Posted by
mack_turtle
1. lots of kids and hipsters see this movie and decide they need a fixie.
2. bike shops make a lot of money selling fixies for the next year, then get stuck with the extra stock when it dies down.
3. parents and pundits complain about wreckless youth bombing through traffic without brakes. a few kids get hurt or die.
4. fixie trend dies.
this happened once before. BMX died in the early 90s because of over exposure. remember this?
I still see plenty of BMX's around but it tends to be little kids riding their older brother's one size fits all hand me down and wanna be thugs. I want to like this movie, just because of the actor. I'm blanking out on his name but I liked him in 500 days of Summer. Also, although they seem impractical in some areas, I am fixie-curious...not in the sense that I need to color coordinate because I already do that, though not to the extreme some fixie riders do, but I also try not to hate on any bicyclists anymore...to each his own, you know? If it's working for someone, then hey. However, I must qualify this by saying that the bike must actually be used practically and not as a fashion accessory on the uni campus or the high school parking lot.
edit: I've been more coherent. I guess I'm tired. Try to make sense of it.