GrumpyGregry
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To be strictly accurate BB bicyles and, indeed, tricycles for young children are often, in my experience and observation, either fixed wheel or direct drive. Obviously only members of the Fauntleroy family have the bunce to provide freewheels for their little ones..This is how respect should work in an ideal world.
Of course any reference to respect owed to the riders of single-speed freewheel bicycles is 110% ironic.
Single-speed freewheel bicycles are for young children and the terminally dull.
All respect (demonstrated by bowing or otherwise) must be reserved for fixed-gear riders. All others are shams and imitations.
Da kidz is well ard innit?
On another note; I don't require riders of singlespeed or multigeared bikes to bow. All I ask is that they keep out of my chuffin' way on the climbs as they frantically change down whilst slowing dramatically, often simultaneously loosing all directional control, whilst behind them I'm winding it up...
"Comin' thru! Fixed wheel! Can't slow down!"