Sheldon's Chagrin (Washington Post content)

David Montgomery weighs in on fixies: 'Sort of dumb and super hip: the twin characteristics of many things in life.'

"A fixie is the essence of bicycleness reduced to a few lines and curves, like Picasso's sketch of a dove"

I was just about to say that......

"before the .. tour de france"...

weren't the first tours ridden on fixies?

sigh

"Fixie riders tend to be in good shape, though a surprising number smoke."

hahaha

Stop saying fixie!

Waste of time. Can't believe I read 4 pages of shite on the WP site.

Waste of time. Can't believe I read 4 pages of shite on the WP site.

^^ Seriously.

Aw c'mon. It wasn't that bad. At least they recognised the Fixie Armegeddon as being when specialized make a bike they profess is for the 'late adopters'.

And then this at the end...

Stevenson, the early adopter, will never give up his fixie. But now he's almost 40. His knees are getting older. Like many fixie riders, he keeps a fully geared road bike on the side.

It's not as if all the blimmin annoying write-ups in our newspapers have this level of understanding in there.

It's obvious the journo reads bikesnobNYC and formed their angle from kind of perspective: not at all a bad place from which to do it.

Terrible article but that sentence is beautiful.

"A fixie is the essence of bicycleness reduced to a few lines and curves, like Picasso's sketch of a dove"