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I guess what I was saying (albeit with tongue in cheek) was that people say it and I believe the people who say it mean it. I'm just not there with them yet. TBH, I'd LOVE to be able to trackstand at lights like the messenger doodz do, but that's coming. I'm learning to use the clips first, then try fixed, then do the trackstandy things...
ATM, I refuse to accept that you can skid better with foot braking than using a back brake on a freewheeling single, just because you inherently have fewer ways to move/control the bike mid-skid. But even that I may have to concede on in the end.
Unless it's all some vast in-joke... Have all all the "fixed" riders been sniggering behind their hands saying, "Seriously, I never thought they'd fall for it. Like, everyone's riding fixed now. It's even caused the invention of the entire hipster movement. Seriously man, HOW did we pull it off. Ha ha ha ha!!!" . . ?