We know that fixed gear bikes are becoming really popular, in fact, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette wrote an article on them:
While such a machine might seem to have limited appeal, the popularity of fixed-gear bikes has expanded beyond the bigcity messenger subculture that spawned them somewhere during the past decade.
Click here to read the article.
It seems that now days riding a Fixed gear bike is becoming more ‘mainstream’. Can this mean the beginning of the end of the ‘Fixie subculture’?
Popularity: 3% [?]
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It’s the end any time big business can package and sell something formerly seen as a subculture, so yes.
I drove by Downtown Fullerton and one of the trendy shops had a fixie in the window as part of their decor…
Whatever happened to “Fixed Gear Friday”?
I tweaked my knee and haven’t ridden my fixed gear because it aggrevates it. Now it’s set up as a SS.