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@Sharkstar
The cyclist, then, qua cyclist, is not l'homme machine, but l'homme et la machine non plus - not a seamless melding but an easily disengaged interdigitation of flesh and metal, a tango, if you will, on tarmac. And it is the very delicacy of the relationship between cycle and (wo)man that undergirds the new ideology of the fixed gear - fixisme. The continuously turning motion of the pedal-feet complex is the antithesis of phallogocentric put-put-put of the internal combustion engine and the late capitalist crisis that it has come to represent.