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Singlespeed & Fixed Gear "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!"-- Henri Desgrange (31 January 1865 - 16 August 1940)
View Poll Results: your age:
10-15
9
1.81%
16-21
107
21.53%
22-29
210
42.25%
30-39
109
21.93%
40-49
39
7.85%
50+
23
4.63%
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Avg. age of fixed gear riders on Bike Forums?

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Old 04-17-05, 09:14 PM
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I'm an ass. I missed the box
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私は二十三歳です。
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Can I make a thread like this too?
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i definately dont want to be grouped with 16 year olds
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I definitely do... Giggity giggity
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Didn't we already have a thread or two about this?
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So you can't vote if you're under 10? My first bike was a fixed gear. I was only 4 or 5 when I got it.

I just don't think anyone should be left out just because they have training wheels mounted on their mini pista.
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Didn't we already have a thread or two about this?
one from a year ago: thread

amazing what that 'search' function can do!
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So you can't vote if you're under 10? My first bike was a fixed gear. I was only 4 or 5 when I got it.

I just don't think anyone should be left out just because they have training wheels mounted on their mini pista.
I think you have to be 13 just to be on the forum....

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I'm too lazy to vote in the poll. You think I have time for a search function?
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Old 04-17-05, 09:50 PM
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i be the mode.
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I'm 28 years old... but about as fast as a 79 year old.
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32 and still counting.....
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Depends on what you mean by "Singlespeed and Fixed Gear". My '74 Triumph has only one gear, but it would never be confused with any kind of racer!

Anyway, it's fourteen years younger than I am.
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who's the 50+? bada$$....
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Originally Posted by WithNail
Well zoogirl's '74 triumph is 14 years younger, so that would make zoogirl 55 yrs old. I hope I'll still be riding when I'm 55.
hahah. your matheratin' is confuxxorated!
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Hehehe we should form a club for those of us who have bikes older them themselves. I swear getting on my bike feels like having an affair with an older woman sometimes. Entertaning and educating.
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Originally Posted by WithNail
Well zoogirl's '74 triumph is 14 years younger, so that would make zoogirl 55 yrs old. I hope I'll still be riding when I'm 55.

Good thing you're riding fixed, larger values are obviously confusing.
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Originally Posted by * jack *
one from a year ago: thread

amazing what that 'search' function can do!
but that was from a year ago. looks like the reaper has claimed a few of us since. RIP.
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Old 04-18-05, 07:34 AM
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wow, a picture perfect gaussian distribution. whod a thunk it?
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Old 04-18-05, 07:35 AM
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I just turned 50 - ouch - but have only been fixed for two years so I'm thinking that I'm really 2...however there wasn't a box for 2 year olds.
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Old 04-18-05, 07:53 AM
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Yes, that would be the next poll...how long have you been riding fixed...
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