What is your blathering about? You can't trust bike shops because of something that happened in the 80s when they told you where to find stuff? You can get fixed gear bicycles in many places these days. Scrodzilla runs RetroGression a neat shop that specializes in fixed gear bicycles and will ship all over so you don't have to fly back east to go to T-Town or any other towns to find a used fixed gear you can buy the wife something nice like she deserves!

As far as Phil, Phil Wood does make some fine hubs!