The london trick beef? a.k.a 5th Floor Fixie Crew Implosion

Sorry, I didn't phrase it properly. I wasn't really asking what they were doing, I was wondering why what they were doing was so unbelievably shit.

Maybe I'm coming at this from the wrong angle, but I find street BMX to be really engaging. It makes fixed trick riding look like poop.

That's been discusssed to death. Again, see the positive side. A full-size fixed bike may not be as good for tricks as a smaller bike, but it's a better compromise between covering distance and acrobatics.

Obviously, in acrobatics the skill depends on the rider and not the bike, and if you give an acrobat a larger bike they will naturally be more restricted by its greater rigidity, e.g. when it comes to turning quickly.

I don't think that fixed tricks are 'unbelievably shit'. A bit over-hyped, for sure, but good fun and for many people the closest they will get to artistic cycling--did you look at that thread? Those are fixed tricks, too, but I rather doubt that anyone would call them inferior to BMX tricks. It's just that they're very hard to learn (as I said, on the Continent there's a serious organised sports scene around it). I think the current fashion for fixed tricks thrusts into the vacuum created by the absence of that sport from these shores.

(Someone told me recently, at the Minidrome event, that Chris Akrigg, the winner, had apparently said that he preferred fixed tricks to BMX and trials riding now--is that true? http://www.lfgss.com/thread28000.html)