http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: trend - Recent Topics en Sun, 31 May 2026 06:45:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=512#post-3790 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:32:53 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 3790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I started thinking about this after comments on the 'Real Bike' thread about fixed riding having become trendy. It certainly has, and it's the one problem I have with riding fixed. </p> <p>I've not been doing it too long, about 4 or 5 years? Basically it coincides with me starting citycycling and finding out about it and giving it a go to do an article. That was a skip-rescued bike, and now I commute virtually every day fixed. I feel fitter for it, and having had serious knee trouble (I've got a reconstructed cruciate after a football injury) I find fixed helps HUGELY.</p> <p>As was also pointed out on the thread, nothing is for EVERYONE and it's simply a case of finding what works for you.</p> <p>But here I am, a fixed rider at a time when fixed is the height of cool (although I've got wide moustache bars rather than teeny straight bars, and I've got a front brake).</p> <p>And then I started thinking about other things. I've got an iMac (brilliant for dealing with images and videos and compared to the first few years of citycycling on a PC it's a breeze for web stuff); an iPhone (which has been a boon for keeping the site running when I'm not at the home computer); drive a Mini (I love the look, and even more so the way it drives - it's my second one); keep chickens in the back garden (well... fresh eggs, need I say more?); and we even grow a hell of a lot of our own, which appears to be becoming trendy again as well.</p> <p>I was never one for trends, or for displaying logos and the like, and I'm still not. Every one of the 'trends' I've inadvertently followed has had reasoning behind it that goes far beyond what other people think. But the problem is, people DO think that. Maybe I should get the gears back out; drive a Focus; get a Dell; eat the chickens; pave the garden; and get a Nokia.</p> <p>Or maybe I can just be happy at being me... Which just happens to be trendy at the mo... ;) </p>