Will you still be riding in 5 years?

lpg Yeah, i probably shouldn't have judged this geezer, in an ideal world ... but people judge each other all the time. Even without realizing it. I don't have any problems with any cyclist (unless they're brakelss and crash into me). Or bus driver, or car driver. I was just thinking about it earlier..

People buy ipods partly because they are good music players, but also because they are fashionable. People buy it because, with it, they are buying into an image. Same as Rapha clothing. In this respect, i don't see any difference between them with fixies. People just want to feel like they are part of a community, just look at the existence of this forum. This isn't a bad thing, it's just human nature. I'm not being condescending or elistist, i'm no different to anyone. I don't know why people are so touchy about it.

It was really funny pedalling, though.

I bought an ipod recently because my creative zen micro gave up the ghost. I'd returned it three times already because the headphone jack didn't work. Ipods came down well under two hundred for a 80gb hard drive, and I figured that it was good value for money and that it would last. Aesthetically it's pleasing - Apple have good designers - but it spends most of its life in my pocket, well out of sight. I don't really feel like it's a fashion statement. I certainly don't talk to other people on the street who have them.

I actually got quite irritated at first when riding fixed got fashionable. I didn't want people to think I was riding fixed to be fashionable! But I quite liked the camaraderie that appears to have developed around fixies - hence this forum and the one on fixedgeargallery. Bill's site has that feel as well, though that's primarily for couriers and he was zine-ing long before that.