Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Best/Worst Of '06

The Best:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/267973497/

The Worst:

Cyclocross bike stolen shortly after I was run over by a truck and my On-One SS was demolished.

best: fools gold rush. over 100 racers, taco trucks, a brutal course, and good times

worst: getting creamed by a drunk driver who ran off. i hope never to repeat that.

Best: New IRO Angus, built juuuust how I like it.

Worst: My conversion was stolen. Quite a conversion, if I do say so myself. And that prompted the best of '06.

best- going to the worlds
worst- IVF not working for my wife and I all year .

Best:Getting my conversion finished, Getting the skid down.

Worse: Wearing white after labor day.... I really have anything to complain about.

Honorable mention: The Natty Fab thread.

James, I think you got the forums mixed up.... ;)

Best : Being alive.... Family, bike, guitar........:beer:

Worst : Bu$h War, Moving to Vt. :cry:

best: met a lot of good people.
worst: getting doored and seeing that the guy above me doesn't like vermont so much.

best: Lots of riding, alley cats, whiskey.
worst: (tie) Loosing my job of 10 years
Breaking my elbow when I was about to start a new one.

Best: finding a good lady, getting back into riding, getting my '74 Raleigh, learning a lot of new things, getting my MS, starting my Roth IRA, and building up my fixie flip-flop to close out the year.
Worst: my girl breaking her arm and being unable to ride for a few months, living in a town that still has winter, my car getting hit twice... that's about it. A pretty good year!

best: getting a new bike
worst: learning it has a dent in the seat tube

Best: my $15 Nishiki International, which equaled having a high-quality frame that fits my odd proportions, my boss letting us take his RV to Interbike

Worst: breaking my hand dirtjumping and getting pins for two months

Best:
Traveling around Mexico for two months with my girlfriend in a rusty old Isuzu. Despite the fact that I was driving and not riding, one of the best experiences of my life.
Summer in Brooklyn.
Riding bikes.

Worst:
Losing my Grandfather.

Best:
Birth of my beloved daughter

Worst:
Death of my beloved uncle

Se la vie, eh?

I'm sorry for your loss and take care to both Dersu and Gnar.

James, I think you got the forums mixed up.... ;)

:)

(WE shall bring the good times to BikeForums '07- until!)

Worst:

Getting a collapsed lung while sitting at my desk and having to spend 3 nights in the hospital and a month recovering, crashing twice and breaking my hand and getting many stitches, being bikeless as a result. Boredom, angst, loneliness, etc. like every other human.

Best:

Dating an awesome new girl who I met when she drove me to the ER after the first wreck (we're still together, I'm very optimistic), getting a good job in loss prevention for a big dept. store, going to geology field school (8 week camping trip out west with the University), getting a check from the insurance co. for a new bike, being alive and happy at the end of the december.

Worst:

Getting a collapsed lung while sitting at my desk and having to spend 3 nights in the hospital and a month recovering,

Welcome to the club. I spent 3 weeks unfortunately.

Best: Meeting a girl I truely loved, having lots of great sex, and not having a job/school and ****ing off for the year.

Worst: losing a best friend because I fell in love with his girlfriend, finding out the girl I fell in love with didn't have the same feelings, having to move to NC, and getting in trouble with the law (court date in January). Ugh.


It was a rough/emotional year.

good: riding the **** out of my bike, my wonderful girlfriend, finding out i like vegan sour cream and http://www.rainydawg.org/images/db/large/1147847364.jpeg


bad: nov/dec(i broke my hand, my car broke down all ****ty, i had to drop out of school for those things, and then now i'm wicked sick. ugh. things WILL get better though.)









dude, i have the worst gas right now.

Worst: finding out my group at work was being phased out and they didn't want to keep us around.

Best: 8 months of severance once I shut my group down(I'm the last one to leave).

Oh, I thought this was bike **** only. Then the worst was definitely losing two of my uncles to cancer. And the best would be summer vacation. Best time of my life.

Best: Making this really delicious chili.

Worst: Realizing I made the chili when I was drunk, so it could never be duplicated. :(

Best: Making this really delicious chili.

Worst: Realizing I made the chili when I was drunk, so it could never be duplicated. :(
D'oh!

best: getting in great shape in spring
worst: losing that shape by mid-july

Best: Getting my crap together and applying to grad school / becoming a happier human being
Worst: GF getting upset about my applying to grad school / saving little money, and being streched for time

best: all of my friends, old and new.
worst: my current job/student loan payments/mixed feelings.

Best - Coming to Turkey, going to so many amazing places and meeting awesome people
Worst - Having my laptop stolen the second week in Turkey

Best - riding my first double century 2 hours faster than the goal I set for myself.
Worst - my crappy job that continues to get worse.

Worst: My favorite bike to look at in the world (my bike) is too small, and I finally don't deny it anymore, and I agree that it is causing me back/neck/shoulder/knee pain.

Best: The bike I just built as a winter beater with no care in the world as to what it looked like, is now my favorite (not really, but close), because it actually fits me and I now ride fixed gear with a lower ratio and two brakes instead of none.

Best: Moving to a new place, and starting a career I love.

Worst: Losing a girl I love, and then dating a string of girls that could never measure up to the one I love.

Best: Discovering fixed gear riding over the summer and finding places like this to discuss and learn more.

Worst: Having to read some of the discussions on this forum that go absolutely nowhere. Actually...the worst would be losing one of my best friends to a suicide. the second worst would be getting real drunk, yelling at my girlfriend, her friends and her brother...riding home...crashing...waking up to what would end up being a horrendous scar on my knee. having said girlfriend dump me after 3 years (months later and only marginally related to that night). and as born on a bus has wisely stated....that string of girls afterwards is always very dissappointing....you almost resent them for not measuring up. whoa!! here's where i stop giving way too much info....

back to the best: building up my first and second fixed gear bikes and building up my first road bike.

edit: of course this makes me a bad uncle, but the birth of my second niece has gotta be tops!

+ Moving out, buying my bike, finding my niche a little more in life, finding someone that just might work with you

- Being poor, huge credit card bill, not being to afford my car/racing, 850 dollar realtor fees :(

YAY! found a new and awesome place to live, good bye apartment!
BOO! a now ex-friend of mine is now smoking crack.