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So not dissimilar to the fixie fakenger craze that took over London in 2007, it spawned a whole fandom of events, forums, shops and media attention.
All on the back of couriers riding their fixed wheel bicycles in an attempt to earn a crust to buy gear and red stripe.
The money moved in and so did the urban fashion fixie spread in E.S magazine wearing a rapha ‘fixed’ jersey and pair of cut downs astride the fasion editors pinarello, cycling cap at a jaunty angle.
Mr_Smyth
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You've got it spot on
Graff writers generally aren't fans of street artist.
Graffiti is generally done illegally and is self taught or passed on from toehr writers
In my view they generally look at street artists as people who only paint legal walls, don't follow 'the rules' of Graff, do it for the wrong reasons. I could go on here
Then there's the whole stencils/projectors etc. That Graff writers can't stand due to it being seen as colouring in
Tldr: street art is usually pretty pictures and Graff is hard to decipher and usually done by writers for writers not general consumption