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True and/or false:

A fixie is to an experienced cyclist
as
A home espresso machine is to a trained barista.

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Hm, false for me, as riding a fixie for me is like asking to get hit by a bus or eat gravel. Probably both, repeatedly. No one said I had to be coordinated to ride.....However I feel like I can operate a home machine without certain death in my future or fractured limbs at best. I'm new to this site and group, so hi, also!
can we stop calling it "fixie"?
why? what do you call it on the east coast?
"fixed gear", or maybe even just "fixed".
e.g.
"i ride a fixed gear."
"have you been riding fixed long?"

"fixie" just makes me wince... it's like calling a skateboard a "skatie."
i use much fouler terms than that to describe skateboarders. not that skateboarding in itself is inherently evil (there are decent skateboarders out there); it just tend to be popular among overgrown adolescents who think it's cute to be inconsiderate.
you can always call it a track bike.

technically a track bike is built to be a fixed gear but i think it easily applies to converted bikes too.
Not all fixed gears are track bikes, it's a different style of body.
All track bikes are fixed though - hence "technically a track bike is built to be a fixed gear." Where a track bike is designed for track cycling in a velodrome, I believe a converted racer can still be called a track-simply because the there is no freewheeling mechanism.

A "fixed gear" is nothing more than a racer converted to a track.
One crucial aspect of the track bike is backward-facing dropouts, for the purpose of chain-tension adjustment.
Let's be even more precise with our language, a "fixed gear" is not the type of frame, rather the actual gearing. A Road frame and a Track frame can both be a fixed gear, similarly both frames can have freewheels. Also, just because you ride your road bike with a rear fixed hub on a track does not make it a track bike. If you make your mountain bike fixed it does not make it a track bike either.

My point was that the word "fixie" is annoying, that's all. :) Even though I ride a track bike I call it a fixed gear in conversation because, well, I've never ridden it on the track.
so you ride a trackie?
grrrrr!

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