Fall/Winter '07

1. What influenced you to ride fixed (friend, professionals, seeing others, messengers)?

It was different, I was curious - Internet bike pop-culture (seeing Lucas Brunelle and similar videos). Sheldon Browns writings caught and held my attention. My roadbike was being ridden in one gear mostly (downtube shifters and laziness) so essentially already used to the SS thing anyway, as winter rolled in I got impatient waiting for my Rob Roy group buy to come in, so I did the conversion thing, as I'd already got my wheelset.

2. Is your bike (or was your first bike) a conversion?

First fixed bike was a conversion from an old crappy bike-boom era (read: cheap) Bianchi (technically had a fixed as a kid, too - solid tyres with front brake and all!).

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

<---- (Toronto, ON, Canada)

4. If you live in a small city or suburb, how/why did you decide to ride fixed?

Not a small city, but I chose to try it out because I was curious about the many things I'd read/seen about fixed gears. Some of the "training" benefits I'd read interested me too, but it was more a "this is different, I want to check it out" thing. It was shortly after that when I started hearing/seeing more buzz about them on youtube, etc. - and frankly, some of those tricks looked damn cool when I saw them

edited to add more blab and include year info in post.