2006.

1. What influenced you to ride fixed (friend, professionals, seeing others, messengers)?
simplicity/purity of the bike, training aspect of riding fixed. (the catalyst was finding a Scorcher in my size!)

2. Is your bike (or was your first bike) a conversion?
no.

3. Where do you live (city and state for US, city and provence/country for outside of the US)?
Berkeley, CA.