Fixed gear for people over forty?

Thinking of getting back into fixed gear riding after getting rid this year. I thought it had caused my plantar fasciitis...it didn't (well, I'm pretty sure).

So what sort of age can people ride fixed gear in hills or on audax's?

If your over forty and suffered from fixed gear related aches and pains let me know...cheers.

There's a guy in brighton who must be at least 75 who rides a bob Jackson vigorelli everywhere. Plenty of hills involved there, can't speak for his aches n pains though

Ride until your balance goes. Some acquaintances have hit that at 65, some 75, some 85, some never. Gear down as your average speed starts to drop.

forties is nothin , u just gotta man up and make sure your gear ratio isnt 63 - 9 or somthin dawg=)

If you're too young to die, you're too young to give up on fixed... I ride a sensible ratio all winter and a silly one all summer! 51 years old and regressing into childhood.....

Excellent! Feeling the urge for an Ellis Briggs Pista in canary yellow!

55 47 18

Ask someone old, like jonny or villa-ru.

Hehehe...

I am a spritely 43 yr old riding a Langster 47-17 in undulating Cornwall and loving it!!

My Dad is 47 and he's starting riding fixed this year.

I'm mid 50's this year and fixed - Although flatish in Norfolk!

Man-up and ride.

49 here and still happy on fixed, my mate Mike is 62 and rode his fourth PBP on fixed two years ago.
Plenty of 60 plus Club riders on fixed

42 44 16

Only hurts if I try to stop. So I just keep going...

43 48 16.

40 46 16

72 " gear,
the gear of winter races of old,
the gear of kings,
the gear to get up on til you can push an 86" on tracks
never give up

My Dad is 47 and he's starting riding fixed this year.

I got my first fixeh in 2007, fam... Check your factz!
#fuckingkidz

I got my first fixeh in 2007, fam... Check your factz!
#fuckingkidz

and the rest, repped

I got my first fixeh in 1907, fam... Check your factz!
#fuckingskidz

ftfy

Started riding fixed at 45 (Learnt to skid at 48 and track-stand like a boss at 49) and am now 52. Started 48/17 and now ride 48/19. It just gets easier and more fun

55 and 48/19. Hills? I shit 'em

i've been riding fixed around town since 2007. 48x18 usually, 46x18 when i do TLC.. skydancer is right it just gets easier.. my trackstanding is crap though..

A colleague in his mid/late forites thinks I'm a pussy for commuting at 46x16 because he's at 48x15.