Being laughed at riding fixed?

Park up a motorbike in good weather and on your return you generally get some old boy telling you all about the bikes he used to have.
I like it. It's a sense of continuity - living history, if you will...

Buy Triumph, ride up the road to the post office to buy road tax, come out of post office and there is the first old boy eager to chat about his old Triumphs and Nortons.

Pretty much every day someone wants to chat about my bike. I love it ;-)