I swear you lot need to get some actually decent bikes

tom. [quote]lpg I would argue that fewer people here (UK) ride fixedwheels for style reasons only. Maybe because there's more of a culture of track racing, or just generally more cyclists per capita. I mean what you described above isn't really the norm.

Get me?

A see a huge number of people here trying to look like they ride fixed (road bikes with only a front gear and plenty of spoke cards).

Someone should make up some spoke cards for tagging cyclists guilty of this offence. Your souplesse is hopeless perhaps?[/quote]

there are always poseurs everywhere at least those lot don't ride around brakeless flat pedals with a slack chain... AND, a lot of couriers don't actually ride fixed they ride geared bikes hybrids mtbs whatever they like or put together... who cares what they ride and what alleycats they've done? my guess is by now the number of couriers who ride fixed is already totally outnumbered by so called fakengers now.