Will you still be riding in 5 years?

eyebrows [quote]asm Why do some people ride bow-legged? I saw someone riding a rather swish geared bike like that, and tried it myself. Just felt a bit like a fool. Are they just bow-legged in nature or what?

its to do with knee joints, and if you're a MTBer or ever were one, its to do with balance.
road riding is all about knees to the tube.[/quote]

I went from MTB to a fixed road bike and rode in a bow-legged manner, I honestly didn't realise it until I switched to SPDs which I fitted straight and it forced me to ride with with my knees more together, which now I'm used to it makes a lot more sense :)

I'm sure in 5 yrs time I'll still be riding a fixed and mountainbike, hopefully more than I do now. I started riding fixed to try and get fitter and commute to work faster (45min walk or 25mins on the bus). I started riding my old MTB, then built up a hybrid for a friend (with a freebie frame from another friend) and realised how much quicker and easier skinny 700c rubber was compared to 2.3 wide mtb rubber. So I converted my old mtb to fixed with 700c wheels and I'm loving it, my main reason for fixed is that I have to pedal all the time so I must be getting more excercise than on a freewheel.