Should I ride my first fixie back from the shop (in London)?

Lima? It's a piece of piss. You should try cycling in Machu Picchu. Bloody tourists everywhere and the roads look like they haven't been resurfaced in years.

machu picchu? pffft, piss. i commuted for years through the rainforests of Java, with nothing but a rusty old Pickerton and a blunt camping knife. macchu picchu is heaven.