Female Customer at Work :
The very definition of a fixie is that it has no breaks.
(Yes, I did pop into her conversation and explain (with a smile of course) that the only thing included in the definition of Fixed Gear is the lack of a free wheel in the back hub... that there are all sorts of different "fixies" out there, that most of them have brakes, and that the only ones that are purposely built not to are track bikes, which are designed to be ridden indoors, in races, on a track, only. That people who complain about hipsters putting brakes on the track bikes they try to ride around town, are like people complaining about others putting rear view mirrors on formula one cars so they can drive them to the grocery store... and I even restrained myself from telling her that if all the information she has about bicycles comes from reading some mag like Bust, she should probably shut her mouth and eat the food I just served her).
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