1. What influenced you to ride fixed (friend, professionals, seeing others, messengers)?
I had been riding a Cdale BadBoy, and I always had the thing in the lowest gear, and it seemed kinda stupid to have gears if I wasnt gonna use them. I had seen a couple of track bikes around campus (U of HI), and basically was set on getting one from then on. Graduated, came back to CA and picked one up.
2. Is your bike (or was your first bike) a conversion?
No, the much beloved and regaled Langster was my first steed.
3. Where do you live (city and state for US, city and provence/country for outside of the US)?
Have lived in Japan for the last 2 years.
4. If you live in a small city or suburb, how/why did you decide to ride fixed?
I live in a suburb of Tokyo, and would rather ride to work than do the following:
pay train and bus fare
wake up earlier
be smashed in a traincar with a bunch of people.

Its a win win to ride IMO.