two days ago I saw two kids looking at my pista while it was locked up. One was incorrectly explaining that my bike had a coaster brake! I explained that it was fixed gear and as I was leaving I heard him dismiss me for my "messenger-style." It honestly didn't bother me because I know I've ridden fixed through 2 Chicago winters. Heck now that bicycling magazine has pegged the pista the new hip thing I've come to expect some backlash, but the antidotefor me is rolling down Cortland Ave. and feeling the heat from A Finkel Steel or having a stroke while spinning out on the hills near the warren dunes of Michigan. Jeff