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Old 07-17-17 | 06:56 PM
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Bikes: Airborne "Carpe Diem", Motobecane "Mirage", Trek 6000, Strida 2, Dahon "Helios XL", Dahon "Mu XL", Tern "Verge S11i"

Originally Posted by chorlton
It is very tempting to pour disdain on Fixie riders...
Why? Hath not a Fixie rider eyes? Hath not a Fixie rider hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Freewheel rider is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Fixie rider wrong a Freewheel rider, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Freewheel rider wrong a Fixie rider, what should his sufferance be by Freewheel rider example? Why, revenge.

With sincere apologies to William Shakespeare!
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