Originally Posted by kidcolin
boston is chock full of fixed gears and singles.. sometimes i think i see more of those than road bikes and mountain bikes.. but that's probably because i pay more attention to them. you also see plenty of recumbents and other funkie bikes.. i once saw a double bike.. it's hard to describe. i believe it was one frame welded on top of another, so the guy had to climb up someone else to get in the saddle. it was a sight. there's also a sideways bike i see around, where the guy sits perpendicular to the direction of movement.
Yup I saw the sideways bike too, on the harvard bridge. I think he has a website (sidewaysbike.com). Pretty neat. As far a fixies there are just a lot of them, mostly used by messengers and other dudes with messenger bags (who appear not be messengers).