I was also referring to the replies that blame the would-be-converters for wanting to score hipster/street cred/whatever points. So what? How's that a threat to you? If someone wants to experience the joy of riding fixed gear and is inspired by it being somewhat marginally fashionable, how's that skin off your nose? Do you feel the new fixie kids somehow reduce your own OG fixed rider status or what is it? Yeah, riding a fixed gear on the street does not necessarily make sense - depending on the criteria you use to define sensible - but I should think most of the posters on this forum do it anyway. So where's the sense of calling a fixed gear neophyte a wannabe-hipster? Some of the attitudes on this forum quite regularly baffle me.