Damn, fool. Do you even know what I was trying to say? Did I attack fixed gear riders as a whole? I even went the length do differentiate; suggesting it was the fashion riders that I was opposed to. If you spent the time to read it, it's a pity that you didn't understand it. Obviously, since you offer that your fixed gear riding has nothing to do with being cool my arguments weren't directed towards you. And, since you don't understand the notion of being cool (which sounds like the most farcical thing I've read on the internet today) then I am, increasingly not talking about you!

This isn't a a contest about who is real and who is not. I don't even ride a facking fixed gear. So, how "real" can I be?

But, your argument that you only came to SF to get away from mechanized labor is full of holes. You could have easily gone East, or anywhere that wasn't based around automotive plants. San Francisco obviously held some appeal to you. I cannot comprehend how that appeal could not have been based on some sort of fondness for the city which was based around a level of "coolness".

And it's even more ludicrous for you to propound you haven't seen fixed gear bikes on the front of Muni. Would it be too much for me to suggest that if you had ventured outside of the Mission and Downtown and gone to the Sunset or the Richmond you would have seen them? The kids who ride the bus with their bikes on the front to Valencia St, and ride from 15th (not 16th, because you don't want anyone to see you turn around) to Army and back again. Trust me, I have seen 'em.

Let me further clarify for the sensitive simpletons: In the end, I like fixed gears. I like bikes. I like people. However, what I do not like is fixed gears as the new Nike Dunks or the Hyphy Movement, etc. Does that elucidate it for you?