Perhaps the attraction is that they are illegal?
And on a different angle, one of the challenges we're seeing (in South Africa, that is) with donated bicycles to school learners is that within a few weeks of donation, the brake blocks are gone - sold as bike spares :-( Then the learners use their school shoes as brakes.
On 27 Jul 2010, at 4:32 PM, Simon P J Batterbury wrote:
> Aren't fixies illegal in most countries because of the frequent lack of two brakes? They are in Oz. Technically.
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> Confession - I think they are unpleasant machines and wasteful of rear tyres.Using a salvaged frame is often set off with brand new alloy rims costing hundreds. Not in the conservationist spirit.
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> I also overtake their young riders all the time on an old bike with gears, and I'm in my late 40s, so I really don't see the point.
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> One gear, dangerous, and hard to stop.
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> It must be cultural.
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