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You know i have a feeling in 10 years we will look back and realise that Freestyling on a fixed gear was the Snakeboarding of the late 90's.
Having said that i do like the inovations that spring from it, and a lot of the bikes are pretty rad that have been born out of the needs of these guys. I also applaud anyone for pushing something into new areas, just there's a limit to the point in it for me personally.
I dont mind all the flat land kind of tricks, but the jumping and skateparkriding, well i just cant see the point. If i go in the park, i want to catch some air, and that just isn't going to happen on a fixed gear, no matter how good people get. I was watching the Holdfast promo, and was thinking, shit, why are you so stoked about getting the same amount of air a 10 year old could get on a halfords BMX ? Hit that up on a jump bike for a real stoke.
What i would really like to see is the flow of fast urban fixed riding, with some manuals/skids thrown in on some cool features along the route - pissing around in a skate park is all a bit far away from what fixed is all about for me.