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Adam, that last bike is clearly my bike!!

nice bike :)

That second photo looks like you were caught off-guard in the middle of a conversation with your hand... you know, like when you draw eyes on your hand and make it talk to you.... ok I sound weird now.

yup, I love fakies, I can fakie forever on my bmx and love doing a number of tricks into fakies, but I can't seem to get the hang of it on my fixie, it freaks me out!! :-0

I was wondering if anyone here started off riding bmx before starting to ride freestyle fixed gear? Was thinking about trying some tricks on my fixie but am unsure where to start apart from skidding and fakies / backward circles. It feels so strange doing everything on such a large bike. If you have ridden bmx before, have you found it easier/harder to ride freestyle on a fixie?

I love seeing everyone's bikes. This forum is pretty awesome, I'm lucky to spot one nice bike a day in Dublin... when I went over to London a couple months back my jaw was literally hitting the ground at all the gorgeous bikes over there, every other second we were going "oh my god look at that one!" - especially in Islington, that place is over-run with nice fixed gear and single speeds!

Thanks! nice to "meet" you, so to speak :) I'll look out for you too - what's your name? I'm Beks/Beky whatever you prefer to call me :-p

Pic of all is here.... http://adverts.ie/128465

1. Specialized Back Brake Caliper and Lever - moderate use, brack block is still good, cable tension v good also.
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Do you still have the lever? What size bars does it fit on? Looking for something to go on my 25.4mm nittos. Gonna ask my boyfriend to ask you on adverts too, as I'm not registered on there, just in case you don't see this!

Cheers...
Beks.

Hello you! God I see enough of you online/in real life already... ;) Get that bloody bike built!! (by the way thanks for the risers, I'm in love with them).

This is me and the fixie:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebecca_eldridge/3792234628/

I'm usually on a brown langster with a flat bar with bright blue grips and a ton of stickers on the down tube covering the horrible decals though, if you see me around town (don't dare to lock my new bike in the pic above in town and leave it there all day!)...

this is my bike after the powdercoating. i know this colour scheme wont be everyones cup of tea but fuck it i love it! the blue is blue steel ral 5011 and the white... i dont know.. i just asked for the whitest white they had. pictures really dont do it justice

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37849349@N04/sets/72157617426605892

I've seen you cycling this down Aungier Street... I think? :) I like it... a lot!

I saw a couple of front brake SS riders when I went to London there a couple months ago and couldn't believe what I was seeing... it's far more dangerous to ride like that than to actually ride fixed gear! I'd love to see one go flying over the handlebars ;)

You gotta admit though, it's a good feeling when you're ID'd and you insist you're of legal age and have a little battle with the shop assistant until they refuse, and then you pull out your ID and they look all sheepish and keep apologising and you think HAH WHO'S THE STUPID ONE NOW!

hmm, is that a compliment or not? At least I don't get ID'd at the offlicense any more now!

ahem ... i AM thirty (I just look about 12 haha), so I've gone past the "knee surgery before you're thirty" stage ;)

I also found it really hard to find anything nice that was 49cm or under. I always just wanted an old race bike to convert but can never find anything small, it's impossible to find, everything is way too big! This has always been a problem for me, my background is in bmx, which I've ridden for 6 years now (street) and I have to run an 18.5"tt, which is TINY. I have to run a flatland frame on street because no companies make small frames - it's mad considering most people who ride bmx bikes are kids who NEED small frames!

ahh I see what you mean. I've actually got the seat up higher now than in that picture. That was the day I got it all together and I was actually a bit worried it was too big for me, but I do feel fine on it. Your leg is meant to be fully extended if you sit in the seat and put your foot on the pedal at it's lowest point, and with the seat at the height in the picture my leg was still bent, so I've put it up now.

Here's a pic of me with the seat as it was in the picture before I put it up. I think I look fine on it?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebecca_eldridge/3815157819/

oh and yes, the langster... it's ok, I just think the frame is ugly. I'm not really a fan of ovalised tubing really. I don't hate it really, I guess I was exaggerating ;) I've had it for about 3 years now and it's doing my head in!

49cm is fine for a 5ft 2" person...Maybe because I'm standing behind it and holding it in front makes me look a bit smaller than I am?

Haha thanks, that's a Threadless tshirt, they have some good stuff.

Mattty... I'm guessing by the exclamation that you don't like it? :-p Had a bit of money to blow from my birthday so I thought I'd make something really crazy looking that would stand out! Except I'm now paranoid about leaving it locked anywhere, and have to use my other bike if I think I'm going to be leaving it somewhere for a while... kinda defeats the purpose really :-/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebecca_eldridge/3792234628/

There's me and my face in one photo.

Hello everyone :)

Also got another fixed gear, a modified brown langster, currently with another frame in the post so I can swap the parts onto it as I hate my langster so SO much...