I’m going to have to get me a fixed (note, not “fixie” – I’m 32 and can’t go round pretending to be young and cool) for the road, but it also needs to have the practicality espoused by BD.
I love fixed on the track – mind you, riding on the track is addictive – and can’t see why fixed on the road wouldn’t be ideal. It would certainly get around my unwillingness to do any maintenance on my commuter.
And, although I appear to favour practicality, there is something still rather cool about young people, on bikes, chilling out in bars. Why is it excessively frashionale over here, but riding a bike to a nightclub in Amsterdam is a perfectly normal activity?