Fixed more difficult for thieves?

I have always thought that Allen Ginsberg personified the Spirit of the Fixie somewhat more than Jack Kerouac, who, after all travelled across America in cars and on railways. Gregory Corso damned himself, of course, by calling one of his Anthologies "Gasoline".

Cliveo,

When Ginsberg first met Gary Snyder, the latter was fixing his bicycle. Somewhere (& it grieves me for professional/personal reasons that I can't remember where) there are several references to bicycles in Snyder's poetry.

He certainly uses the beautiful phrase 'relentless clarity at the heart of work' , to describe manual labour, something that consistently eludes me when trying to change a bottom bracket.

EDIT - Phew, got it .

'What I came to say was,
teach the children about the cycles.
The life cycles.All the other cycles.
That's what it's all about, and it's all forgot'.