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"The fact is mainstream media are going to be picking up on a fixed gear culture that is, like it or not, seeping more and more into the mainstream itself.
I'd just read an article in one of the Daily Mail magazines for fucks sake - the DAILY MAIL. The reason I wanted to look at an alleycat and perhaps speak to messengers involved is that at least these people are verifiably at the forefront and centre of something and can give the reader an understanding of something that is beginning to resonate more widely."
i think you are confusing 'fixie' culture and messenger culture, they are not the same, they overlap but messengers didn't invent fixed bikes and in the u.k have never been a significant majority of cyclists who ride fixed (that belongs to trackies and TT'ers) there is a pic of Bill and 4 others at an early 90's european messenger championship the only entrants riding fixed, my mum rode fixed in the early 60's the bike was 40 years old and she managed to get down church hill without an areospoke or deep-v's.(she's my cycling hero)
i think what i'm trying to say is alleycats are one story riding fixed is another and you're not having much luck with the former :-)
IMHO a story about roller racing would be better, it's inclusive not exclusive and your readership can pay their £5 and enter