Fixed-gear bicycles are the scourge of modern bike fashion. Actually, fixies are almost nothing but fashion. If you took a swaying, brainless, gazelle-like catwalk model and turned her into a bike, a fixie is what you’d get.
It’s not enough that these cred-machines don’t even work well as city bikes — their track-bike heritage means that they have but one gear, no freewheel and no brakes — no, the riders have to take things even further and load up their rides with all manner of style-mandated extras. In fact, so much like a cult is the fixie "movement" that we wouldn’t be surprised to see the FBI get involved, right before the whole fixie underground goes up in flames, barricaded into a San
