Originally Posted by Ben Cousins
So, let me get this straight - lycra is BAD, but little bits of cardboard in your spokes is GOOD?
Are there any aspects of this subculture that aren't completely arbitrary? Is somone going to decide that riding around with a banana taped to your face is cool next?
I think about 95% of the people who do that are just trying to be cool for the sake of being cool. And on a rolling course, I'm pretty sure 95% of fixie and single speed riders would have their ass handed to them under race conditions.
Now in the city, that's another story. I've raced messengers around town before and I can usually pass em on the straights or if I'm drafting around cars in traffic but when things get slow, I mean real slow, packed like a can of sardines, they usually leave my ass behind as they swerve between cars and pedestrians.