Fixees on Real Radio?

On Saturday morning Andrew and I happen to stumble across a vintage British Car show @ Mead Gardens. We happened to be riding around town and decided to cut through Mead and low and behold, there where are these really nice vintage British roadsters. Pretty cool and unexpected so we stopped for a few to admire some of the machines. So as we where walking around gawking at these finely kept autos, one guy came up and asked Andrew if his bike was a "messenger" bike. After explaining what a fixed gear was he immediately asked how we managed to stop without a standard caliper brake. After explaining that, he mentioned that he had heard about fixees when he was listening to 104.1 and was curious as to how they worked and how we are able to stop. Curious that the subject of fixees was on Real Radio, I asked him what the context of the discussion was and he said that everyone seemed to have the same basic question; how do we stop when there are no brakes on the bike. About this time another guy came by and asked us a few more questions about our whips and mentioned he had just built a single speed for his daughter and that she eventually wanted to go fixed as well.. He also mentioned that a show on Real Radio was also talking about the subject. I asked him which show and he didn't remember as he is not an avid listener of the station and just happned to tune in. Now fast forward a few hours and now we're chatting with Michelle about our conversation @ Mead Gardens. She then mentions that a co-worker of hers had said the same thing and also said that they where talking about the race as well (I'm assuming that they where talking about the After Easter Race since it was the most recent one). According to Joelen, they where talking about it on the Philips Phile and once again, the main topic seemed to primarily revolve around how the hell we manage to stop these things without brakes.

So did anyone happen to catch any of this that afternoon? Supposedly it aired on the Monday afternoon after the race and from what I've been able to gather the topic started because someone mentioned something about seeing a lot of bike riders riding that day. I tried finding archives of the show but didn't have much success. I'm just kind of curious to see if anyone heard it and what the overall context of the conversation was. If you did catch it, chime in on the comments section...

Personally, I just think it's funny Andrew and I ended up fielding questions about our bikes at a vintage sports car show... :)



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