>>1280135Fixie were an old fad like 10 years ago.
It was mostly because around that time, many real boomers upgraded their road bikes so the second hand market was flush with good condition steel 10-speeders for the savvier students cronically short on cast to take.
Now, after this three strategies diverged:
>The care free: minimal maintenance and see how log it lasts.>The obsessive: for the first thing takes the bike part, inspects everything, cleans and relubes everything. That is, continues maintenance.>Nowadays many bike models are out of replacement cassettes, so that calls for a replacement rear wheel with a suitable hub for a still available 3/32 casette, just as an example, so this sort of thing requires dedication!>The crafty: instead of all that, you could buy are track wheel and get rid of those dented frenders and that rear brake that doesn't work anyway. Pesto, you've got fixie.Now, as said, the supply of good used derailleur bikes has kind of dried out and many parts have become unobtainium. The used market mostly now has those abhorrent (((hybrids))) and hub bikes, so a student on a beaten road bike isn't as usual a sight as it used to. The fixie however prevails, because the formula is the same. now people just add thriatlon bars to hybrids that used to have 7-speed rear casette.
Fixie-fags just can't afford a good bike, so instead they build a meme bike to protect their frail egoes.
