at age 45 !!! after a few cold ones to really make it a real test ride ! to all you guys and gals that do this on a daily basis ,i give you a BIG this was one wild ride after being on my S/S coaster, i've been checking on converting mine to a fix,so low and behold one of the guys on the tuesday nite pub crawl showed up on a RedLine 925 fixie,i felt like a kid trying to learn to ride a bike for the first time! i parked it and walked away SCARED,but deep down something keeps me wanting one! so how long did it take you to learn and not be intimadated by "THE FIXIED BEAST"?