So after reading this forum posts, I decided to buy a fixie. My 2 local bike shops have one fixie each and both too small for me. Craig's list has barley anything.
Can you please advice which bike to get? I was looking at specialized web site and saw these bikes. Are they any good?
https://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/...gster&eid=4354

Please let me know what you think,

Pass. on the langster ... but, that steel Allez for 600$. has my attention.

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There is life outside the roadbike forum. I bet if you ask in the Fixie forum, you'd get better responses.

Fixed gear not fixie.

Your typing style is the most annoying I've ever seen.

And there's nothing wrong with a Langster.

+1

I came to road bikes from a fixed gear. I've had 4 different fixed gears, one of which was a langster and it was a great bike. Of course there are some pretty goofy paint jobs on some langsters, but to each his own. I'm a big fan of the Cannondale Capo frame which is my main fixed now. Some of my favorites are:

Cannondale Capo
Masi Speciale
Specialized Langster

If you are comfortable with sizing and wrenching issues, consider bikesdirect....if not, then don't.

why????

If you must, get one off eBay.

Depends on what you want to do.

Just tool around- buy whatever looks cool.

Light track work, off season fixed gear spins, etc... Check out the felt TK3

wanna do a madison, pursuit or a points race?

Check out the TK2

I've got a Masi Speciale and I really like it. Not really a track-oriented bike, more of a fixed gear road bike.

>I was looking at specialized web site and saw these bikes. Are they any good?<

What, you think Specialized makes bikes that are mostly bad, as opposed to "any good?" Listen, there's no such thing as a bad bike - only bad riders. I love my basic Langster but come on, there's not much difference between off-the-shelf bikes that cost about the same. Just go get your bike, already - Specialized, Felt, Bianchi, etc., etc.

And, speaking rhetorically, why are you asking your question in this forum?