If the simple act of recreational cycling warrants this sort of mythologizing (sic) then there's no way the average person is going to feel comfortable simply hopping on a bicycle without sufficient backstory or an adequately expensive wardrobe. Incidentally, fixed-gear riders really should stop congratulating themselves for riding their bicycles more than a few miles at a time, especially since they stop pedaling just as much as riders with freewheels. I see "hipster coasting" [edit] and I spotted at least two instances of it in this video
I think Edscoble has just come up with a lovely new collective noun
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