Originally Posted by mihlbach

Man, you guys are way too easily infuriated when folks don't bow down to your precious fixed gear culture. It an article about an outsiders view of track racing. Its not intended to be a review of the history of track racing, or a piece on the coolness of fixed gears, or fixed gear culture and if it was, it would be boring to everyone except a few track nerds. Face it...track racing is a marginal sport in this country. Its just not that exciting to most people. Does olympic track cycling ever even get televised here. The article is a human interest story, and part of a larger story about an ameteur's attempt to get into the olympics and how challenging that would be. Theres nothing wrong with that.