Pointless debate and civil war is why the rights of the cyclist are minimal.

It's all about your bike. Live yours and ride it/them, fixed or free, single or cassette, 12 or 28 inch wheels it's the same deal.

I own and ride alot, including fixed, but don't judge.

It's all about the bike. It's made for recreation and competition. Not conjecture and ostracisation.

Build ride enjoy.

Mwah

"Hipsters"? "Awesomeness"? Baristas with double R's??? This anti-hipster persecution complex/sour grapes bullshit is getting old.

Look, if you don't like a group of people, simply AVOID THEM! It's easy to do. Just like complaining, without the inevitable on-set of worry-cancer, or, you know, "caring".

Are you afraid of being judged? Do you not think you're cool enough or compare? Little jealous/envious? If 'yes' to any or all, then why?

You are right, oddly named Mashugina. We have much worse to think about and this happily should feel trivial to us. My feelings as well as others will fade. This is a mere snapshot of how things are, mustaches and all.

I think it's hilarious that people put this much time and energy into hating-on fixed gear bike riders while Rome is burning at home.

Yeah, yeah, ya' all hate hipsters and you have no qualms about spreading around that insecurity (which says a lot more about you than it does the object of your derision.) What are you guys looking for anyway? People to change their ways in order for you to feel better about yourselves? Are your lives so bankrupt and devoid of joy that this - fixed gear bicycles?!? - is what you choose to waste your time and energy hating-on?

Yeah it's a trend. So what? What are you going to do about it? Buy the next fixie kid you see a 12-speed Felt and tighties? would that make life better in your little corner of the world?

Or are you simply just jealous of the youth factor atop all those fixed gear track bikes? Interesting...

Look, they're on bikes. It could be worse: these kids could be behind the wheels of cars. And as far as the whole sub-culture thing goes: there are no more secrets in the information age. Everything is out in the open, b-sides are readily available with behind the scene commentary, and everything is obtainable via a few clicks of the mouse. Everything you, me and everyone here who took all that shit to heart (record collecting, bike messaging, tattoos, comic books, dirty sex, etc, etc.) is now completely exposed. Deal with it and move on. If you're about living it, just live it. If you're a rebel, who gives a shit about what business people think, anyway? Eat that disdain!

Over a million people lost their jobs this week in our country. Is the fixed gear trend really the thing we should be bitch and moaning about right now?

Oh yeah, "hate-ons" are the new rollerblades.

I miss the times when Portland was a bike city and the only designations were; roadie, messenger, commuter, chunk, pickle bucket(commuter), bmx, or mountain biker. It was more of a peaceful community.
How about those times? Can we get back to that? When is the fad going to die off? I want it to be passe to have a track bike. I want it to get back to just people who ride a bike. I don't want this to be a fashion show, or rather, contest. What this is is an affectation. It's pathetic. Part of this is hipsters in general bleeding into the bike community. People hate hipsters because they advertise lots of soul and have very little.

I never thought messengers could be hated more, but thanks to people's general inability to separate the 99% fake from the 1% who could give a shit, we have somehow reached new heights in our disdain.
I don't want your no hand track standing. Don't need the neon accouterment. Could care less about skidding around to show off, and in the middle of downtown, in the financial business district no less(WTF, you are pissing the people we have to work with off. Why are you there?). Stop TRYING to be down. Stop co-opting a subculture so you can have identity. Stop with your weak, sorry, utterly pathetic need to be noticed. Insecurity reeks. THAT is why everyone is bent. Not your bike. Not your bandana. Not your tri-spoke. Not popping a wheelie in traffic. It's the attitude.
Oh man, I'm waiting. I'm circling your fixed gear bandwagon, waiting, waiting for your phony little trend to collapse. And all will be right with the(bike) world.