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main reasons for my switch to fixed last september?

• wanting to be cool
  
• desire to be hip
  
• frustration from my co-worker being trendier than me
  
• seeing Mike (trampsparadise) rolling by on old street and digging his brakeless style
  
  

seriously though

• been riding bikes as long as I can remember. Grew up in the hotbed of cycling south of Paris (TDF passed by my village!)
  
• for the past 10 years went through a few MTBs that I gradually customised for city use (rigid forks, slicks, riser bars, etc..)
  
• then started reducing the number of gears (from 21 to 7)
  
• then still wasn't happy with that whole shifting thing
  
• then tried my co-worker's fixed and haven't coasted since!