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'.

Round my way the local chavs even ride their 20 year old Apollo mountain bikes badly, rediculously low gear, swerving all over the road. Once they've got your bike it doesn't matter if they ride it badly or push it. Unless someone's chasing them nobody is going to bat an eyelid at a kid with a bike, no matter how he's riding/pushing it.

But they can wheelie !

You would be surprised as a lot of thieves can spec and price a bike up quicker then most of the people on here and know what is worth stealing, I am talking career thieves here and not your drug induced dropout thieves.

Big Nick. That is good stuff.

Here is another reason why Corso was a great poet but not suitable for fixed wheel bicycles.

Last night I drove a car
not knowing how to drive
not owning a car
I drove and knocked down
people I loved
...went 120 through one town.

I stopped at Hedgeville
and slept in the back seat
...excited about my new life.

Cliveo,

Spot on - if memory serves Corso was once moaning about how nobody loved him, and Snyder pointed out that it was his behaviour that was unloveable.

He'd be driving a white van or minicab in London now, of course !

But a bike with really high saddle, really low drop bars, fiddly road strap pedals or even worse, clipless aswell as tight racey geometry and drop brake levers would probably all freak a thief out just as much if not more.

I'm scared they'd beat the shit out of me after embarrassing themselves by falling of my bike :-)

I am talking career thieves here and not your drug induced dropout thieves.

Dropped out of thief university??

Dropped out of thief university??

kicked out for not taking their exams