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I did.
I was talking London in the late 1990s/millennium, a short while before the Fixed Gear bike was popularised as a fashion item. I know they rode slick rigid MTBs, because I rode one too. I know they raced MTB at the weekends (or weeknights when the Beastway series was on) because I'd occasionally race with them, or at least go to watch. As did the courier-owner of that rasta-painted Bontrager you guys loved/slated in here. The company I worked at had its own fleet of couriers, who I consulted plenty when I built my Volvo-Cannondale commuter.
I appreciate that Track bikes have been around a lot longer than MTBs, but there was a relatively short window of time when they ruled city streets. In many ways, a well-built one is still the ideal fast city street machine - almost like an adult-sized BMX that can sprint faster and brake far harder and later than a track bike. A lot better for taking the odd staircase too.