You may say “hey I didnt mention couriers anywhere!” Well you are right and wrong, you mentioned fixies. That is almost the same thing as mentioning a courier.

Courier’s made the fixed gear popular for mainstream use. (no it wasn’t those sweet velodrome crashes.) So if you rail on the fixed gear and “skidding tires” as the guy on the OJ masi did numerous times to dodge garbage motorists, well you are railing on couriers.

Oh and we don’t skid on the 50 $ tires unless we are killing it in a alley cat.

I’m guessing though you do not know what that is w/o a quick google search due to your ignorance of fixed gear culture.

Felt like the woman on the red bike was the epitome of a fair-weather, the way she mounted her bike awkwardly completely decked in makeup and nice clothes. I understand it is to show a more mainstream and “for everyone” angle but for me it slowed the momentum of the video and felt like they “had to” put in certain scenes with the red biker just to be fair, even though they were boring as hell.

And about your views on “safe” riding some people (such as myself) do not have the luxury of that. It is the nature of a bike courier to take risks in order to make times and make enough money (we make very little) to sustain ourselves and our bikes.

Please do not group us with the hipster doofuses w/ their shiney multicoloured (and pristine) fixies. They are the majority of the imbeciles on fixed gears, I assure you.

Imagine… having fun while commuting to work!