Re: [CR] fixie fad?

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:15:42 -0400
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR] fixie fad?


ternst wrote:
> 40 years plus ago we rode track bikes fixed gear no brake bikes all
> over the place.
> But, on the same roads we're using today we only had about 25% of
> today's traffic!!
> Think on that. And don't forget that in the 1950s the standard North American bike only had a coaster brake, nothing else. I remember kids would back-pedal and lock the back wheel to stop just like the fixie hipsters do today. -- John Betmanis Woodstock, Ontario Canada