What made you start riding fixed?

Cos tynan said if I ride brakless I would get famous

If it's fixed don't brake it.

Cos I can't afford a car, duh.

/jeremyclarkson

I wrote a **short **piece on why one might choose to build a fixed gear bike here

That is not "short" and what's with all the 'fixies'?

Reasons to build a fixed gear? It's relatively easy, especially with modern parts.

Because I saw all these kids on primary colour bikes who never stop pedalling even when they probably should, and I figured "why should they have all the fun"?

A guy in putney cycles told me he had an aggressive riding style, and riding fixie made him feel at one with the bike. Suitably impressed, ever since then I tried using fixie to reach Zen, but the nearest I came was when I got doored by a taxi and was weightless for a second. A perfect moment. I mean my shoulder clicks every revolution when I spin my right arm, but it was totally worth it, man

Why wouldn't you ride a fixed wheel? If you're going to eat a Beef Wellington you just can't wait to slip a lovely, warm, juicy piece of meat in your mouth, right? Same thing but with no freewheel. Awesome.

for the skidz

for the zen like connection to the rear wheel or something

cant afford brakes

Didn't we cover this in 2007?

Cutoff should've been left at 100. Sexual favours and buyins maybe to 500 but after that.. bikeradar >>>

Cutoff should've been left at 100. Sexual favours and buyins maybe to 500 but after that.. bikeradar >>>

I migrated here from bikeradar.

...waits for cries of "Send 'em all back!" etc....

cause i don't understand how gears work

cause i don't understand how gears work

This

A courier mate of mine switched me onto fixed gear originally, that said I bought an old 1997 Bianchi road bike last autumn which I subsequently converted into a single speed rig so I have not been riding fixed since then.

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.

Now I've only just realised who 'Will Melling' is. Fucking lolz for me.

I started riding fixed so that eventually a wonderful software engineer would let me merge other people's threads and every now and then swing the ban hammer. The bike thing means nothing to me.

Sweet merge bru

Sweet merge bru

I started riding fixed so that eventually a wonderful software engineer would let me merge other people's threads and every now and then swing the ban hammer. The bike thing means nothing to me.

Every time you post the expression 'ban hammer' I think of

http://youtu.be/m8-ItRoHJM0

started riding fixed to feed my masochistic ways

what can i say, i like the abuse.

Had a go on one of the hire bikes at Bournemouth velodrome a few years back and just loved the feeling of being so connected to the thing......got myself a steamroller after that.

such zen.