Good news everyone! The Chronicle wrote an eye-opening expose about fixed gear bikes and culture, which has never happened before. EVER! I don't want to give away the ending, but here's an excerpt from the riviting article:

The only thing harder to stop than fixed-gear bikes might be their rise in popularity. Next time you walk by your neighborhood coffee shop, take a closer look at the bikes locked outside. You're sure to notice a fixie or two among them.

Read on to learn a brief history about fixed gear bikes, and find out answers to those buring fixie questions you've been dying to ask: Do you need ironic facial hair to ride a fixie? Does the bike have brakes, and if not, how do you stop? How many times can one news source write the same story over and over again before anyone notices? What will C.W. Nevius have to say about all this #fixiefamous hype? All this and more to come, I'm sure.