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

Good to see you phil - it made my day complete.

I'm gonna have to +1 that right back atcher al...

When you have to explain to your girlfriend why you are meeting up with lots of men you met from the internet!

...you take your 53x19 bike to your French gite, only to discover that there's a one-mile 1:6 climb back from the nearest bar... :-(

when you have to explain to your girlfriend why you are meeting up with lots of men you met from the internet!

+100! Lmao :)

. . . when you're still posting stuff on here at 4.30am! (You know who you are! ;)

... when you spend the better part of 7 hrs on a night ride, getting back home at 2am and the first thing you do is switch on the computer to post comments

...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) ^

apols for the redeye - this is pre-production...

when you offer to go down the road to get your dad coffee at 11pm, and you take your bike.

such a great photo fred...

you are my muse <3

...you walk right past the carbon bling machine and the Orange sub-5 to get to your heavy steel-framed fixed (like almost EVERY time).

haha... I sooooo agree.... but now my wife keep asking me is that one fixed... or single speed?

+1

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.

Interesting. But how is the movement different? It's just sitting on a bike and pedalling isn't it, same as with a freewheel? The only real difference I've noticed is there seems to be a bit more "pedalling intensity" among fixed riders for some reason.

such a great photo fred...

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... when you spend the better part of 7 hrs on a night ride, getting back home at 2am and the first thing you do is switch on the computer to post comments

You mean you guys actually switch yours off ?..........

When you have to explain to your girlfriend why you are meeting up with lots of men you met from the internet!

. . . when you're still posting stuff on here at 4.30am! (You know who you are! ;)

... when you spend the better part of 7 hrs on a night ride, getting back home at 2am and the first thing you do is switch on the computer to post comments

These are not being fixed gear crazy, these are being internet crazy. And my reasons for meeting up with lots of men from the internet are in fact related to neither cycling nor internet obsession, but base physical desires.

[quote=CrazyJames;495902]You mean you guys actually switch yours off ?........../quote]

Weird, isn't it? I leave mine on all the time, partly to heat my bedroom during the winter and partly so that I can get on the internet the second I wake up, which is exactly what I do.

When your bike is in the shop and you refuse to talk to humans until you're reunited

When a customer buys the 75 Years of Campagnolo book and you end up talking at them for 30mins because its someone who understands what you're talking about!

And my reasons for meeting up with lots of men from the internet are in fact related to neither cycling nor internet obsession, but base physical desires.

Wait wtf?

Haha, I was worried for a while that no one had noticed that.

^^^Same here lol. I mean for all we know this could be a sex predator forum O_o.

Only kidding ^^

On topic though: I am now doing no handed trackstands in front of the computer. Not typing though (yet).

On topic though: I am now doing no handed trackstands in front of the computer. Not typing though (yet).

Don't try to impress your computer. It's not big and it's not clever.

Don't try to impress your computer. It's not big and it's not clever.

Oh I said practicing, which actually means I'm just holding onto a chair and testing my saddle angle tbh haha.

Oh I said practicing, which actually means I'm just holding onto a chair and testing my saddle angle tbh haha.

You didn't say you were just practising--you said you were doing no-handed trackstands in front of the computer. Your computer is most definitely unimpressed now that the full scale of the deception has been revealed. ;)