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most people dont notice, but recently ive been getting a lot of older guys talking to me about it. i keep my bike in the pub garden where i work, and one of the old locals had a flashback from his youth and ended up getting a fuji track pro. hes lost 3 stone which is great, but all the other locals take the piss and tell us to get real bikes. by real bikes they mean Y-frame MTBs.
had a situation the other day with a guy riding a "crate" bike. ive seen one of these in a LBS and though it was a pile of crap. ive never seen one to be sure, but i think they may be a rebadged unipack. same price, badly made componants all round, brightly colored. i was on my viscount SS at the time, and as i rode past him he said: "to pussy for fixed". i was in a good mood so laughed and told him i use my SS for commuting to work. raced him to the garage and completely wiped him out.
its one thing for someone to question your choice of bike, and ive only discovered bikes in the last couple of years so im no sage, but not some noob on a shit bike they think is amazing.