Single-speed... I just don't get it

I've a few bikes; road, SS mountain and track...
Personally a lot of the argument for SS & Fixed is bull, "the freedom of not worrying about gears" "oneness with my bike" etc... Untill about 3 years ago all the bikes i rode had gears and guess what? it never worried me and i was experienced enough to know when to change them appropriately.

I wish people would just admit that riding fixed is simply novel or fashionable & SS isn't a big departure from a geared bike (bar slight weight difference & no derailleur to catch on rocks).

Please Please i wish people would stop taking derailleurs off their old road bikes, but keeping the cassettes and running SS. THEN also taking off the rear brake. WTF. It makes more sense to keep the rear brake then remove the front one if your so concerned with bike/component weight loss. This behovour is on the rise it seems.

I agree with you on the SS and running only a front brake, perhaps so it looks like a fixed, stupid. But probably 90% of shit that is done to fixed bike is cosmetically led even if it it performance related, e.g me just ordering a red CK headset form the US, rather than easily picking up a black one here!

However i ride more SS than fixed, mainly because my fixed bike always seem to be in pieces due to some new bit ariving!, but do feel that fixed you have more feel for the bike, in a way that is perhaps unquantifiable.

Without a doubt SS/Fixed is a major fad at the moment, personally i look forward to it all calming down a bit as one of the mainn reason i got into initially SS was that you could put together a cheap knock around bike for fuck all, but the hipsterising of the scene has made this far harder