Ha! Good catch. I'm in Fargo, ND. About as midwest as it gets. A lot of us here had the fixed gear gospel handed down to us by a guy that works at an LBS here. For me, I somehow saw a few videos on youtube and thought it looked fun. It was, so I still ride fixed. It always cracks me up that people from the coasts think they're hot **** because they beat the midwest onto some bandwagon or other (not implying this about you bbjones232, but lots of people I've met IRL and talked to on message boards think that way).