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I'd really be curious to read Alice Fisher's original draft (before her editor got ahold of it) and see how it differs from what The Observer actually printed.
I'm also curious to know whether she came up with the idea for the article herself, or was asked to 'do something on those fixies' by her editor.
It's nice that she's so keen to respond in a proper fashion, rather than just going the Tony Malone route, and that she seems genuinely sorry that both the fixed-wheel scene - and, for that matter, her own words - have been misrepresented so badly, thanks to some over-zealous editing.
Roxy? Could you get a copy of her unabridged article?