Fixie Fashion Fad Finally Finished

oooh east london is trendy and we boring farts in south london like moaning about it shocker.

I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here but

a) live in the vacuum that is London by all means but don't think it's a microcosm - (typical journalist pitfall, most likely because most of them are so self-centred in the first place) - meaning

b) fixed gear isn't even cool yet in other parts of the country, it's the equivalent of wearing a bowtie and moustache

c) which were mentioned by the journalist but not in a way that suggests he realises that's exactly what loads of young arty crew have been wearing, which leads me to think

d) he's getting distracted by the look of the bikes and the people closer to his world who have started riding them rather than the way of riding, which is never going to leave you, surely? I mean you either love it or you don't get on with it...? And if you love it why are you going to stop doing it? And how the frick has that got anything to do with what's cool or not?

Call me demented but i still can't get my head around this idea that there's a bunch of people riding fixed gear just because they feel they have to keep up with the fashion of the day. Once you ride it - even if you came to it to be trendy - you'll either go "whooah, don't like this feeling" or you'll go "wow, this feels great".

Of course this leaves single speeders in a quagmire.