Originally Posted by PhattTyre
I ride a singlespeed offroad. Mtbs led me to road bikes and ss mtbs led me to fixies. Unfortunately, I don't have time to ride offroad as much as I'd like. Here's a pic. It's a Bianchi DISS with a SID Race fork, a rasta King headset, a Thompson seatpost, and a Flite. The suspension is nice, but I think I'm going back to rigid for a little while.
Wonder if that's a common progression. That pretty much mirrors my cycling progression. Mtn. biked all through jr. high and high school. For a while there I played around on a redline 24" bmx cruiser that I built up in high-school as a fun project-bike. Later traded it for my first road bike, coincidentally to the guy I originally bought the Redline frame from. Definitely don't regret getting a road-bike, but I sure miss that Redline. Started commuting to work at my first "real" job, on the road-bike (45 mi. r/t), which got me into the best cycling shape of my life up to that point. Which led to centuries and road-training for mtn. bike racing, which led to an upgrade from the "beater" road bike.
Then came my Surly 1x1 (the geared mtn. bikes have mostly been collecting dust since.), which led to an interest in fixies and my first beater fixie build about two years ago, which got upgraded to an IRO Jamie Roy a year ago in March. I'm on track to have over 3k mi. on the IRO before it's 1st birthday. I'm only 133 shy of that now, and I've got a 15 mi. commute 2 - 4 times/week + grocery/coffee-shop runs averaging 10 mi./week. You do the math...
-Trevor