What made you start riding fixed?

What is this "weakness" of which you speak?

;-)

i.e. the moment you scoff an entire box of celebration on your nan's birthday and blame it on the dog.

I ried a fixeh (On mah fixeh as we say oop here in tunbridge wells) cos the local lads really dig BMX and that, but I wanted to be more zenlike and flowing through the moment at every time of my ride to WHSmiths. That's why, it's just so 'rad' like we say down here in Kent.

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bollocks ^ Kent indeed

posted on here in 1973 but for newer readers

Adrenalin

I lived in Hackney but my school was in Edmonton. I was poor and couldn't afford public transport so my Grandad gave me his old bike which was fixed gear and weighed more than a tank.

It's a Zen thing, right?

It may well be... either way, it feels good!

It was for a porn movie I was doing at the time. I had to play a cool London courier, who had to deliver a "package" .

I'm no longer in the porn industry, but I still ride fixed.

Ive been riding fixed gear bikes as my main form of transport for nearly 5 years and in that time it has also become my main leisure activity. I can now admit that one of the reasons for starting to ride fixed gear was jumping on the hipster band wagon (although is was mostly because I was a broke student who needed to get around). I wrote a short piece on why one might choose to build a fixed gear bike here and was wondering what other reasons you guys might have for riding fixed or single speed and how those reasons may have changed over time?

My friend got me into it! At first I just wanted it because of how it looks. He helped me build one, so he made one with flip flop hub, so I can ride freewheel or fixed whenever I want, trying to convince me all the time that fixed is better.
after a year many of my hipster friends told me that I should go fixed, so I tried. at first I hated it, but now I can't ride that freewheel again!
I think it's easier in some way to ride fixie, you can't get tired so fast.
I love it beacause it's really light and don't take too much space.

Can't stop. Don't want to

Keeps me sane.

Prediction and surprise makes it.

bitches love fixies

I got a lightspeed frame and I'm flowin' I'm flowin'

^ beaten to it

its all about the flow

tax reasons.

I don't

Changing gears like way to technical, man.
It was easier to get disability benefits after few years too.

My fixeh makes me look super rad and cool and I can do sweet skidz and stuff.

I was told to come along to a stupid race where you ride downhill for 4 miles. My instructions were that the bike can be anything that isn't a mountain bike. So I looked in the shed pulled out a road frame and looked at what other parts I had. A fixed rear wheel and some cx tyres later I was hooning down a hill off my trolley on Devon cider.

Kut meh I bleeeeEd fixeh.

But seriously. Have you ever felt that moment of great isolation but shared adulation, paused at the traffic-lights maybe, when the curtain rises and it's your turn to shine as you pull away en-route to the dead-end, like an understudy waiting in the wings to tread the boards we recognise as the concrete jungle populated by our very own audience with eyes peeled on our peacock tail-feathers too beautiful to contemplate from their captivation to all we know to be false from our perch of glory, then truly you know the reason why they will never dig what we know is just.

Satan told me to do it.

I got a lightspeed frame and I'm flowin' I'm flowin'

all the doughnuts and pork chops dun fall out his pockets

I knew a bloke called Skully. He'd hold a knife to your throat, or your genitals if he was feeling that way inclined, and 'ask' you to do things. One day he suggested I might like to try his fixed-gear-wheel bike that he'd found just inside the back door of the newly opened Manchester velodrome.
After that I was hooked - any time anyone threatened me with a bladed implement I couldn't get enough of riding 'fixed'. It was the flow - as Skully put it, it was like when you had the shits and just let it go in Mothercare. A feeling of freedom, of release. I'd be doing circles outside William Hill while Skully was inside with a pick axe and a large hessian sack and it just felt right.
Sometimes we'd stop at a red light while Skully gave the v sign to a war veteran and that's where I learned about track stands. That whole year was an education.
Last I heard Skully had got in to cyclo cross, or CX as it's known on Twitter, and had given up his 'fixie' but I will always be grateful to him. Grateful and terrified.

Its enables you to tell the future

coz arrospok look shit on a gorgeous baby blue roadbike