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@tallsam
This is a mantra I often live by.
Fuck fast, fuck brakeless, fuck fixed etc... unless you feel the need to have these things to have fun, in which case go for it. If you're ridding a squeaky £49.99 for two half ton MTB with full suspension and plenty of rust... but you're having fun, then you're the kinda person I want to know. If you laugh at someone for riding a fixed wheel bike with brakes then you probably aren't. Go back to reading Vice or The Face or whatever.
DISCLAIMER: I've been to the pub drinking schooners of Coopers. Although I can still type amazingly well.
40 year old Roadies are fair game though. :D Especially the prick today who decided to jump the que whilst waiting at the lights and put himself infront of me (he was clearly more important than me). I hate shit like that, its just rude. I bet he wouldn't have done it if I had a fancy spaceship/midlife crisis bike like his and was head to toe in lycra (not that there's anything wrong in that). It's not as if he was going faster than me (before or after the lights).
Also the 40 year old roadie who sailed through a red light whilst me and another cyclist were patiently waiting. His bike may have been worth way more than both of ours combined but he's also almost twice my age and should know better. Giving the rest of us a bad name. Cunt.
Rant over.