Originally Posted by
peripatetic
Back to the basic point: Who cares about what other people do with their things?
Oddly, this entire thread is turning into the kind of thread that turned me off to the fg/ss forum back when I first signed on to BF. Ironic that the fixie-haters are as vehemently intolerant as the people against whom they direct their vitriol.
There's something to be said for this-- there is indeed a fair bit of fixed gear snobbery out there, but I don't think it's right to engage in anti-fixed snobbery in response. Yeah, it's a shame when someone messed up a classic, but you're right that it's someone else's property and hence their call. I suppose you just have to move on at some point.
I think you have to try to appreciate the merits of each type of system in general. Each has its strong and weak points. I don't like fixed gears and don't ride them, but they do have their advantages and disadvantages like anything else.