What made you start riding fixed?

My dad has always ridden fixed, so there was always 2 or 3 fixed bikes around the house. When I was 14/15/16 i'd buy a mountain bike, it'd get nicked, and so I'd have to ride one of the old man's bikes for 6 months whilst I saved up for another mountain bike. Pretty soon I stopped buying mountain bikes.

Got a singlespeed as i hate gears cocking up. And had been riding that a while.

I was sent a link to gabe morford on youtube as i used to work on skate videos and came across fixed gear riding. It's keeping me fit and active.

My mate got into it and as soon as he bought his Bianchi Pista I had a spin on it and I was hooked! Bought my Fort frame a week later and haven't looked back since

PS: While I admittedly find fixed gear bikes (along with others) 'cool'. (mostly because of efficiency through simplicity thing).

There is absolutely nothing cool about a short, balding, thirty something man in lycra. Even if I win the lottery and buy a 'Colagno Super Pricey', I cant imagine the word 'cool' popping into the minds of those seeing me ridding it ;)

i got confused and didn't want a broken wheel bike :(

it's nice and quiet

My dad and I decided it would be interesting to make his old tourer in a fixed, I'd talked to some bike friends about it in the 90's and my dad had heard how fashionable it was where he lived (seattle), we both wanted to try it.

After building it, he hated it and I loved it, so brought it back to blighty with me (holdsworth, so it came home!)...

Many reasons why it's become my main bike, partly the exercise, partly I love riding a bike almost as old as me (and renolds tubing), but mostly because it hardly ever breaks down.

mostly because it hardly ever breaks down.

... like any type of bike.

because i hate putting my chain back on all the time on geared bikes!

because i don't know how to adjust cables and mechs, and hate putting my chain back on all the time on geared bikes!

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There is absolutely nothing cool about a short, bolding, thirty something man.

Typesettingist

I have noticed that alot of folk on here grew up ridding BMX's. Personally I blame this for my incompetence with gears.

Anyone else?

Typesettingist

Fixed

PS: While I admittedly find fixed gear bikes (along with others) 'cool'. (mostly because of efficiency through simplicity thing).

There is absolutely nothing cool about a short, bolding, thirty something man in lycra. Even if I win the lottery and buy a 'Colagno Super Pricey', I cant imagine the word 'cool' popping into the minds of those seeing me ridding it ;)

i can also add that there is nothing cool about a tall balding thirty something man (with a beard) in lycra or rapha.
but far worse is a hipster trying to hard to look 'cool'

because it scares my mum....

I started riding fixed so I could pick up chicks...

I needed something much faster than my old mountain bike as I was starting to get bored. So glad I did

Mountain bikes were too confusing.

I didn't choose fixed, fixed chose me.

I wanted to learn to build a bike and thought it would be easier. Boy, was I wrong.

I don't ride fixed. Fixed is for bed-wetters and monkey-fiddlers.

Used to ride mountain bikes a lot when I was a kid. Hated gears and the general fumbling that went with them.
When I got back in to cycling recently went for a single speed mountain bike to avoid said fumbling. Tried a fixed at a local shop - realised that was the way to go, sold the mountain bike and build a fixed raleigh.

I sought a world of purity and honesty and the chance to be a hipster in the midst of a rather late in the day mid life crisis.

I don't ride fixed. Fixed is for bed-wetters and monkey-fiddlers.

Where can I find a monkey?

second aisle on the left, next to the midgets