If you start as a "strictly urban" rider, are naturally competitive, and get excited about cycling as a whole, you'll eventually buy a bib and start road racing. I used to rag on roadies so much when I started over a year ago, and while I think a "bike jock is still a jock," cycling is my life and commuting cycling is just one aspect of that. I'll wear my kit while racing and my street clothes while commuting. A uniform is a uniform, regardless of how "true" you think you're being by not changing your clothes from one situation to another. I'd like to see you compete in jeans and a T-shirt with a U-Lock hanging out of your back pocket. Hell, if you think that's possible, then you probably aren't training and are going to get straight-up dropped anyway...

For those of us into the whole vintage roadie look, we swallow our flagrant unpaid advertising and wear the jerseys of the greats (Molteni, 7-11, Mapei, Cinzano, etc)

In regards to volume of fixed riders, I find myself thinking there are TONS of them that either lurk on this board without registering or don't bother with the internet geekiness of the culture at all. I lived in Pittsburgh all summer, built a really poorly rigged fixed gear at a bike co-op, saw others doing the same, came to this board, and saw hardly anyone from Pittsburgh, let alone anyone I knew from my travels around the city. There were over 300 people at the Critical Mass in June, many of which were riding fixed. There were yet more fixed riders that are either jaded by CM or don't like the whole scene and weren't there. Still we have tons of people that I can't possibly hope to count that I know personally and who aren't on this board. I won't hazard a guess at how many fixed riders are in cities I've never been to, but I'd say there are at least 250 dedicated fixed riders in PGH alone...