"I can balance at a light, but I don't even do those tricks at lights anymore," he says. "Now that the words 'hipster' and 'fixed-gear' are in every fucking thing you read, I put my foot on the ground at lights so that I will look like a rookie. I'm gonna save that shiny stuff for my friends, but I don't want to give other folks a chance to lump me in with those turds."
I've seen a woman in high heels with platform pedals and only a rear brake. I've seen a moustache jump out of his straps and emergency stop with his feet on the ground after unsuccessfully trying to undertake a left indicating bendy-bus.
It's only a matter of time before Darwinism takes its course and these feckless trendsheep are weeded out of the gene pool. Shame the media will probably respond with 'DEATH TRAP COURIER BIKE CARNAGE' etc...
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [pause] Time to die.