Never had a problem with people laughing, mostly just get "Where did you get those handlebars??" questions... I guess poeple are too busy looking at the moustache to notice it being fixed. One of my friends explained to his father what a fixed wheel bike is and he said "Oh, you mean a clown bike" because the only place he's seen them is in the circus, ridden by clowns. Backwards.
Never had a problem with people laughing, mostly just get "Where did you get those handlebars??" questions... I guess poeple are too busy looking at the moustache to notice it being fixed. One of my friends explained to his father what a fixed wheel bike is and he said "Oh, you mean a clown bike" because the only place he's seen them is in the circus, ridden by clowns. Backwards.