Well skateboarding is and has always been my main thing (or always as always can be for a guy who's 15) but I moved to a place where everything is really far apart and on top of that I still go to school pretty far from my house and I decided I needed a bike because skating everywhere 1) takes too long 2) takes too much energy and 3) you can't do it in the rain because it murders your bearings. I haven't really ridden bikes a lot for about 5 or 6 years and before that it was either this mountain bike I had or your run-of-the-mill children's single speed with the coaster break. Most of my friends who skate swear by fixed gears so I was able to get a bike for about $350 with some help from the grandparents. I haven't even been riding fixed for a month yet, but so far I love it and it's a total blast.