Fixie Fashion Fad Finally Finished

Italian, steel framed, geared, racing bikes. Early 80's flavour team liveries.

That's where it's at baby....

I presume you've got an Italian, steel framed, geared racing bike with early 80s flavour team liveries.

East London's shit ;-)

I presume you've got an Italian, steel framed, geared racing bike with early 80s flavour team liveries.

Got the bike....I was thinking of the livery for myself ;)

In East London, you're never more than six feet away from a pair of really annoying crapola 'plimsolls'

....or a geezer with a shopper

....or their Dads ironic shirt

or boltcutters

Ha. True.

In East London if you close your eyes and throw a retro digital watch you will hit a twat. Fact.

haha

Oi cunty! What you trying to say, I've got a retro Casio :-)

....or shades in a bar....or at night

And you got a 'MAG' wheel.

MAGs had 5 spokes

yeah I know I was being intentionally ignorant. You prick.

I'm gonna cut your hand next time I see you

I'm gonna tread on your spanking-white clean Umbro trainers you fucking scouse pikey

man, i should've got a photo of pistanator hangin with the cool cats out front of shop 14 last week.

oooh east london is trendy and we boring farts in south london like moaning about it shocker.

I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here but

a) live in the vacuum that is London by all means but don't think it's a microcosm - (typical journalist pitfall, most likely because most of them are so self-centred in the first place) - meaning

b) fixed gear isn't even cool yet in other parts of the country, it's the equivalent of wearing a bowtie and moustache

c) which were mentioned by the journalist but not in a way that suggests he realises that's exactly what loads of young arty crew have been wearing, which leads me to think

d) he's getting distracted by the look of the bikes and the people closer to his world who have started riding them rather than the way of riding, which is never going to leave you, surely? I mean you either love it or you don't get on with it...? And if you love it why are you going to stop doing it? And how the frick has that got anything to do with what's cool or not?

Call me demented but i still can't get my head around this idea that there's a bunch of people riding fixed gear just because they feel they have to keep up with the fashion of the day. Once you ride it - even if you came to it to be trendy - you'll either go "whooah, don't like this feeling" or you'll go "wow, this feels great".

Of course this leaves single speeders in a quagmire.

Cornetto!

man, i should've got a photo of pistanator hangin with the cool cats out front of shop 14 last week.

You took me there you homo

Have I missed something?

You tell us.

Cornetto!

ha.

I can't believe it's finally here, the fixed gear fad is over!

That can only mean that the classified section and eBay will be swamped with loads of bargains.