To OP: For the looks. I doubt anyone is thinking about what will be done with the frame after they've used it.
Originally Posted by Poguemahone
There's a lot of fixies in RVA, but very,very few are seen in Charlottesville, just up the road and much much hillier. Could be RVAs art school, or it could be C'villes hills.
Nope, I don't think VCU has anything to do with the fixies.
Originally Posted by Poguemahone
What does blow me away are the faux fixies. Either they're built with a kid's bike coaster hub (and I wonder if the riders really understand the maintainece on those) or with a freewheel. At least three times I've seen riders brakeless on a freewheel, which makes me wonder, although that might explain why a) they're going real slow; and b) they're riding on the sidewalk. Stick a couple brakes on, folks. Please. And I see too many fixie riders who apparently cannot a) trackstand or b) skid stop or c) resist stop, all riding brakeless. You can spot em cause they go real slow and run all the lights in the fan...
Hey, I run all the lights in the Fan and my bikes have brakes! I've got a three-speed coaster brake conversion - aethetically a faux fixie, if you will - and a Redline 9-2-5. Those freewheel-no brake cats are scary, I've added/fixed the brakes on several of my friends' bikes out of sympathy. My friend had the shoe-leather brakes on his old bike, I hate to say it but it was probably for the best it got jacked!