Argh! Help! Parents!

i have friends but the guy in the bike shop told her fixies are dangerous so she assumes its true, and i had a long argument with her about it.

i fannied about it on the internet because this is probably the best place for fixie related matters, and i needed help with arguments, which i got.

OK look, I know you got a bit of a frying, ignore that lot, they're just pullin your chain a bit but you are assisting them by being a complete lulcow. So just chill a bit. And don't take it too personally, some of the people on this site could start an argument in an empty house, don't assist them by biting at the bait.

But I have to ask this...

The guy in the bike shop told ye mammy that fixies were dangerous? That's the same bike shop that are building your new bike up? So, they agreed to get a bunch of bits together and make them into a bike at a high labour charge to you, and then they tell Mater that her son will be riding a deathtrap?

Does that seem a bit fucked up to you?

Cos, if you can't have the bike, on account of it being a deathtrap, have you (or your folks) parted with any cash yet? You don't think the bike shop are having trouble putting it together and want to convince you to buy something else, do you? Like they laced the wrong hub into the rear wheel and have actually built it with a freewheeling hub by mistake, or whatever, and are hoping to convince you to have the hub that's in it?