As a Gear roadie who is taking delivery of his Pista today I gotta tell ya' I've been passed by guys on all sorts of machines and visa versa. You guys really kill me with the "I love to get the guys on the high end bikes" crap. How many of you would kill to own the Cinelli that was posted on the board a couple of days ago? If you had the dough you'd buy the best, trickest fixie you could get. I ride a high end road bike and I'm pretty fast for a 42 year old. But if run up some fat guy on a C50 Colnago I don't piss on him I congragulate him for doing something to better himself. If he can afford a 8k bike big F'n deal, again good for him.