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@pajamas
er.....sorry if I cheesed you off dude.. but not all of my post was meant to be taken so completely seriously. I do try to keep my tongue at least partly in my cheek most of the time (sorry if this in itself seems cunty). Yeah i suppose I was feeling a bit cooped up yesterday but I hoped that I'd included enough bollocks to make it a comedy rant rather than a serious one - esp stuff like the "broken analogy" and "I feel like emailing someone". "This country" is an old Alan Partridge quote. Even so yeah maybe it does come across as a bit preachy.
But I did think the whole article stinks, and i do see it as an example of wankers in the media. But there's tons of stuff that gets on my tits in the media, it's just this was specific to fixed gear. Plus the fact this bike started out as some kind of prize but now is "oooh, how expensive".. not really what it should be about. If ETA wanted to market their insurance to fixed gear riders they would do worse than to help subsidise forums like this. I'm not sure how many of us read the Telegraph.
I'm not precious at all about the "subculture", and it's hardly "mine" - having only been drawn into it in the last year and still building my first bike. The subculture for me stretches to wanting to build a beautiful bike (to budget), riding, having a few drinks and laffs and posting here. Well that and hundreds of hours hunched over web pages looking for the right components :)
one thing though - what would be a difficult target?