Sensible Bike

Here's a nice looking, properly made bicycle. It's from Munin Cycle Works in London. Nothing weird, just a bike you'd want to ride. It even has fenders and inch wide tires  so it can deal with wet pavement. The lines are sensible, the frame is brazed with nice brackets, and the result is very clean. A bicycle should be pretty simple. It doesn't have to brag about how awesome only one gear is, and then never be ridden anywhere with a slight hill. Fixies are poseur bikes, unless they're BMX and its a certain Scotsman doing stunts.

That's Danny MacAskill. He's awesome. He deserves the word. Everybody else on a fixie? Nope.

So in the real world, you need gears to climb a hill, but overall a nice clean bike, what you'd see racing in 1976 is pretty much like what you see racing today, just more carbon fiber. And don't skimp on the spokes. Taco-ing your wheels from a slight bump is lame. Don't be lame. Ride a proper bike.