There is a lot of backlash going around against fixies in NYC lately. And with some good reason. With so many frail hipsters picking up a track bike the same way they would buy a new pair of skinny jeans, the trend is boiling over. People spend years learning how to control a fixed gear bike in the city, and a lot of these new kids don’t understand what they are doing until they plow down a pedestrian or two. If you’re just getting into riding track bikes, you have to respect the bike, because it will fuck you up (and the people in your path) if you can’t control it. Looks like this dude had enough:
Posted on September 14, 2007 at 12:37 PM | Comment (2 comments)
