Originally Posted by
sekaijin
Think hipster college students ... Madison, Wisconsin is a college town, and we see the fixie hipsters on State Street.
In Milwaukee I walked past the design school on South Broadway, and the bike rack looked like a fixie magnet.
Lots of old steel around here too, in all conditions. The college towns probably helped fuel the bike boom.
In group rides up here in Appleton, I'm usually the only person with a steel bike. They always send me up front to trigger the traffic sensors.