When I bought my Langster over the winter, the intent was to have a commuter bike that would give me an excuse to able to ride every day and also to use for everything from tooling around to riding with slower friends and family. The Langster would be my "not serious" bike, with the serious stuff left to my cyclocross bike and masochisitic riding associated with cyclocross.

Well, my two mile easy commute has evolved into hour-long training rides in both the morning and after work as well, averaging 16-18mph on the many paths in the DC area and 20+mph at Haines Point (This is not bragging, just a reference point). My 42x17 gearing, originally intended for poking into and out of traffic and hoping curbs is now used to spin like a sewing machine to keep pace with the triathletes and roadies at Haines Point. In short, my "not to serious" singlespeed road bike has become a very serious road bike, and has changed my focus as a cyclist with a concentration of developing myself as a singlespeed roadie.

So here's what I'm trying to get at:
While the singlespeed mountain bike scene is reletively well-developed, how developed is the singlespeed road scene? I'm not talking about tooling around the urban jungle on an e-bayed fixie, but getting out on the open road with just one gear (freewheel) on bikes ranging from stock manufacturer singlespeeds to high-end road bike conversions. And as the popularity of the singlespeed road bike grows, will manufacturers continue to create singular bikes to cover the whole spectrum of commuters, fixies, and toolers, or will they begin to create more serious, road-worthy singlespeed road bikes and accesories at the same level as is being done with singlespeed mountain bikes?

Note: This is not a freewheel vs. fixed thread. It's about identifying and hopefully growing a specific inter-cycling community.