You know you're fixed gear crazy when...

...when even 1 day without your bike, cos it's being repaired, is 1 day too many.
And now that you're forced to walk, when every time you hear a bike coming, you turn round and are torn between joy at just seeing a bike, and depression cos it's not you that's riding it.

@ringo

poor ringo ;)

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...when even 1 day without your bike, cos it's being repaired, is 1 day too many.
And now that you're forced to walk, when every time you hear a bike coming, you turn round and are torn between joy at just seeing a bike, and depression cos it's not you that's riding it.

+1
Perfect description. Except I'm that way even when I'm just popping out of the office to get lunch, and it's too short a journey to warrant hopping on my bike.

this makes for depressing reading. My name is Josh and I have a bike problem.

...walking down the street together your girlfriend/boyfriend gets jealous of the attention you're paying other bikes

Funny! but very true.

isnt that what i used to drink in the park?
probably!

but http://www.whitelightningco.com/history.htm

...when you look at every single bike on the road, every single bloody one, and are able to see if there is a rear derailleur faster than you would have ever thought possible.

... when you feel ashamed of the hole thingie in your frame, to which your rear brake used be bolted.

..when you go "oh shit yeah, walking" when you walk somewhere.

..a hipster where's skinny white jeans, to match the skinny white tyres on his bike ;)

I'll give you that one dogs.. all your other white jeans comments have been tiresome but I liked the structure there..;)

..a hipster where's skinny white jeans, to match the skinny white tyres on his bike ;)
Grammar fail.

Where are the skinny white jeans?
Pajamas is wearing them.

you have to forgive dogs these things if he's to have the breathing space to triumph with moments of purest gold ...

comedy and grammar, tall ask!

you Use The Bike Porn Thread As Real Porn...

Lmfao.

isnt that what i used to drink in the park?

We have a mate at work that drinks White Lighting at home, and was recommending it as bike lube. We thought he was pulling our leg until, he actually showed us the white lighting website.

Sod it, I still got a bottle of Sturmey Archer cycle oil, great stuff.

I must say, the way a man rides a fixed gear is quite sexy. It's a much different position and movement than on any other bicycle.

you worry about "catching" drivechain noise from roadies.

You stop and admire your bike for a few minutes everytme you walk past.

You stop and admire your bike for a few minutes everytme you walk past.

surely you would admire anything you like??

when when a bike goes past you could write down a full spec of it just by getting a quick glance.

when you closely examine every ss chainline bike for fixed or freewheel, and mutter to yourself 'gay, not fixed' if it's not fixed.

. . . when you build a brand new bike, take photos of it, and post them on here BEFORE actually riding it in the sunshine!

(wasn't me! ;)

...when you develop a subliminal psychic link with other riders, and unwittingly attract them like a siren to the smallest back street in bethnal green.

^ happened to me today, with photographic evidence (that fred has) ^

^ all true..