The hostility is aimed soley at the paint jobs on the city specific models, they came over like a cynical co-opting of a cycling subculture for naked commercial gain.

Ourtside of this I think most people here are agreed the Langster is a decent bike, lightweight, well specced, reasonably cheap and is often recommended by folk here to people asking around for a good reasonably priced SS/fixed - it fortunately comes in non-city specific paint jobs.

But if you like the city paint jobs then that is also all well and good, after all you should choose a bike you like - not choose a bike to fit into other people's idea of what is cool or uncool.