Originally Posted by
cavernmech
Really?
To all the "fixie" newbies (and this means those who have not been riding track bikes in an urban environment for 10+ years) keep your un-experienced, knee-jerk comments to yourselves. When I see sketchy, hipster, trend followers on their off the peg bikes, I think the same thing. Some of us have been doing quite well, enjoying safely riding our bikes, before most of you even knew what a fixed gear is. If you want to be judgmental, go to the safety thread with this crap......really.
I think kergin was describin exactly what you're talking about - brakeless trend followers on off the peg bikes
And not a general blanket statement per se
Although to be honest I hardly see even one bike on my commute down till I get south of St. Clair which is really disappointing. The one roadie I passed the other morning thought I was trying to show off and decided to repeatedly attack to drop me
Maybe I smelled or something.
Also: Quantum solace!