I ride fixed. What’s all this singlespeed shit?
Relax, we ride fixed too. At the risk of offending grumpy old fixers, fixies are singlespeeds too. Rejoice in your dérailleurlessness, hug your fellow gear cassette free brother or sister and feel the love.
The real reason is that we were looking for a domain name that was short enough to remember and could be said in the pub after eight pints without spitting all over the person you are talking to.
We drank a lot of beer and tried a lot of combinations of abbreviations, numbers, punctuation and other such sillyness but found that londonsinglespeed was not half bad.