Info please (social trends and "fixie" culture)

Poor Lulu. She only asked. I know it was a badly written request, but hey, you gotta start somewhere.

Lulu:
*I have no idea how I got into it. I guess it was to do with friends turning me on to it.
*I ride a fixed-gear bicycle cos its really really good fun - it feels... connected (in a way that geared bikes don't), safer, and somehow lovely. (I like Will at Hubjub's '10 reasons to ride fixed' page, check it out. http://www.hubjub.co.uk)
*The lack of transmission make the bikes are simple to fix and maintain.
*I started to ride simply to get places, but that's made me enjoy my journeys. Sometimes I ride for fun now. I used to ride skateboards for transport so it was a natural progression of that.
*injuries: Nothing to write home about.
*Have chatted to a few people on that level of 'you ride fixed, I do, lets be friendly/civil' but generally the trendiness of it makes people a bit funny about that. I'd rather talk to the old geezer on the clapped-out tourer really. I have actually had one courier shout 'amateur!' at me, which I thought was quite sweetly-put really - after all, I have a proper salaried job that allows me to earn a regular amount of money, not getting rained on all the time and getting sh*t from pedestrians and cabbies and white van man. Made me think, Yes! I am an amateur, and proud, sh*thead. But he was travelling rather fast so he didn't get this point as I shouted it at his filthy rear Mavic. It's notable that couriers seem to be using gears more and more these days, probably cos track bike stuff is getting harder to get cheaply, thanks to the trendy thing I imagine.

• my exciting piece of info: Brakes are actually quite good. My trusty cheapo bike has a back one too, since it may be needed if I want to flip the wheel to use a freewheel on hilly rides out in the country. Have I lost you?
  
  

Hope you get a good project together.