Okay, so I was just thinking. The majority of us ride singlespeeds or fixed gear bikes in an 'urban environment', right? To me, that means NOT a track bike and NOT a 'traditional' singlespeed mountainbike.
So what's your dream bike? I'm not talking 'NOS 3Rensho' territory here - I'm talking you designing a specific fixie or SSer just for screaming around town on.
I have to confess I'm a hipocrite here, coz I ride a singlespeed mtb with a semi slick rear tire so I can do a bit of everything on it, but when I lie down to go to sleep at night, it's not my ultimate urban machine.
What I'd like to build is maybe a 700c bike, with weird bars ( Think Jones bars have sex with a Nitto Moustache ), 35c tires, Stans Magura Martas ( yeah, disc brakes ).....titanium of course so it'll last forever.....probably mountainbike geometry......basically the hybrid hybrid makers were thinking of when designing a hybrid but instead made some girly piece of poo fat ******s bike.
Hrm....maybe that's exactly what I just described, but what the heck!
You have a clean sheet of paper. What would you make? How would it refect who you are and where you ride?