how much did bf influence my fixie obsession? 100% or well maybe 99% because this guy I worked with in college had one (steamroller... that's all I remmeber) and I thought it was just so cool and very light! So I started by building myself a fixie, then I started commuting while building it, then used it for commuting, then bought a bike better suited for commuting, then converted that to fixie, now I'm looking at a cyclocross bike... to keep geared! (really, I promise to keep it geared this time!)

and not all of are crazy (holy sh*t buelito... that's quite a ride) my commute is 24 mi rt down the Mt. Vernon trail (mostly flat) but there's a half-mile long humongous hill up to my house in DC. (community named hillcrest... go figure)