right on dog! your buds give you serious 'core dap for ridin' fixed. and chicks dig it.

I was in the market for a bike as a mode of transportation and exercise, and then I saw fixedgeargallery.com, and I instantly knew I wanted a fixie.

My buddy game me an old Varsity from his garage, I converted it, and yeah.

I rode bmx for a few years.. I saw kids riding around the city on road bikes with no brakes and I set out to figure out how they did it.. I found out and I met Chris (cripiter) who goes to my school and he explained it further and I saw his beyond amazing circle a and I knew I needed to ride a fixed gear bike. Still learning everything as far as sizes and spacing and all that on road bike parts but I'm having a good time. Painting a bike up hot style pretty soon.

awwwww.....poor baby

*smh*

excuse my reaction, but you sound like a little biatch with a little **** complex...
you got into fixed riding so you could be a little prick yourself and so that all the bad guys (frat boys; bLacK people...oh no!) wouldn't fuk with you?

that's sad

way too much judging of others going on. it's just bicycles, guys.

started off with a new mountain bike and was going to upgrade all of the drivetrain but I'm a graduate student so funds are tight so in the meantime I just converted it to a single speed to save weight and money.....then I took it out and rode some trails on it and it is awesome...

After riding the singlespeed and looking around on fgg and here I decided to buy a fixed gear and now thats the only bike I ride unless I am going to the trails for mountain biking

I started riding single speeds after watching my 4 year old son ride the s*** out of his bike. Up hills & down hills he needed only one gear - why did I need 16?

Fixed was the next step.

My daughter also rides a single speed.

I am a nice guy. I always lets other ride my bikes if they ask. I just got tired of people ****ing up my bikes while they were in an altered state of consciousness. It's amusing that fixed gear bikes gave me an alpha wave state of altered consciousness that bikes with deraileurs didn't.
My guess is that you weren't in the most teriffic of moods when you read my post, and launched into ad hominim attacks as a way to compensate for the things that happened during your day. We all have done it, and I understand. I also know that most of us ride fixed as a way to reduce maintainence, broken spokes, chain gouges, or deraileus out of wack. I just explained it in a slightly different way.
I also used to teach in a school right across from the housing projects( granted, probably not as rough as NYC) that was filled with many underprivleged children, so I might be throwing a proverbial wrench in your cog ( or a frame pump in your spokes).
I wish you the best. I hope tomorrow will be better than today for you.

I'm sure you're a "nice guy". Whatever the fuk that means. A lot of people are. I was just displaying to you how crude your seemingly simple story appears to, say....someone like me. Yes I read into things...
and 's pretty evident that you thought you were talkin' to a bunch of your white boy peeps (which for the most part, you were)... but the fact that you had to distinguish that it was a black guy who tried to steal your bike , and then proceed to flaunt how you chastized him by calling him a "dumb prick" while you relished in the joy of watching his pain subtly shows something about your character...which you openly seem to admit is pretty rough and reactionary

btw...my mood had nothing to do with my response...
and so what you used to teach at a school across from the projects?...and?

you're still a little prick (...and from your response, I confirm my suspicions)

oh..and...no...I wish YOU the best

i just watched crash. this is weird.

Gotta go with teiaperigosa on that one dude. Why was it necessary to describe your foiled bike thief in terms of race, or age for that matter? I guess "fat drunk phrat boy" isn't much better in that it denigrates fat people, drunk people, phrat people and boy people. But then again there's not really a long and storied history of descrimination against and oppression of fat drunk phrat boys. Black folks tend to be a little more sensitive to things like that you know, so ya just might want to be a little more aware of your word choice in the future is all.

Oh, and I think all you mofos who ride fixed are crazy and a menace to society and whatever, but it's cool that you do it anyway.

I owned a fixed gear that a neighbor sold to me, long ago and far away, and I liked it. Nothing particular to it or anything. Then I started reading about fixed gears and how they help with the spinning technique and converted one. Now I like it better than my multispeed bike. It is lighter, it climbs better, and it is just as fast as my multigeared commuter on flats. It is pretty theft proof, and there is not very attractive when parked next to other newer, more expensive, mountain bikes. I let other people ride it and they think that I am from another planet for being able to ride this thing. I like the slow speed control that the fixed gear provides, thing that I learned from my first fixed gear, and the simple looks of the thing makes me very happy.
I dig my gears, but I love my fixed.

While I agree with your statements, GrandCrew, considering my word choice may have not been the best, i feel that it was descriptive, while not necessary. I probably would have described a white teenager in the same terms. it just happened to be a black man. If I would have seen the person who stole my old Trek 720 hybrid, i would have relished seeing them crash as well. I just feel that instant karma is enjoyable to see in person, whether it be for a person who has done something good to be immediately rewarded, or to see a ne'erdowell punished by the hands of fate.
As for the other person who shall remain nameless, What have you done to help the African American community? I have done some, but maybe considering my above statements, I need to do more.
We all probably need to do more to help our community, Black, White, Phrat, or boy.
And I thank you for wishing me the best.

I also found it interesting that you didn't launch into ad m=hominim attacks when someone suggested you "go ghetto" with a half link chain in one of your previous posts. To me, that seems to be just as politically incorrect as my above statement. It seems as if that poster was inferring a figure of speech that most people, myself included, would find offensive. you just thanked him.

to all I have offended, I'm sorry. I will choose my words more carefully in the future.

1. I got into bikes at college. I could ride somewhere in 10 minutes that took 30 minutes to walk.

2. I bought a decent mountain bike.

3. I bought a nice mountain bike. Actually took it off road.

4. Ran into a single speed mtb somewhere online. Liked the idea. Converted an old frame.

5. Saw messenger bikes around town. Puzzled at their brakelessness.

6. Stumbled into this forum, looking for a couple answers about SS parts. Found that nobody gave a **** about mountain bikes here, only fixed road bikes. Figured out #5.

7. Got tired of riding my 32x16 mtb around town. Bought a nice old road bike.

8. Got tired of maintaining / worrying about theft of the road bike.

9. Utilized a couple of the 20+ frames in my basement to build a fix. Worked great. New challenge. Fun. Promise of finding people to ride with.

and so on...

Because I wanted to be just like you, all of you. You are all so.....punk rock.

Jeese, ride your ****ing bike and shut up. Or don't ride your bike, and just shut up.

The cute cashier at Urban Outfitters wouldn't date me because I rode a freewheel. So I bought a Pista and went brakeless. The rest is history ...

heck yeah now that's what i'm talking about

although my story was kinda the opposite...

i needed a way to release my stress from school work and crap.. so i got a Raleigh old road bike and converted it... from that.. i compeletly forgot about the following things:
1.Girls
2.Girls
3.Girls
4.Alcohol and parties


fixed gear has saved my life

Fixie envy every time I saw one of those damn things. So fresh so clean.

Anticipated freedom from mid-winter derailleur adjustments.

An undying love for fast shiny new things that I can get dirty.

Chixdiggit.

i'm converting a bike into fixed gear because i never used the gears on my road bike regardless of the situation.

I love the picture under your name, truly old school.

I have had girls that wouldn't date be because I didn't have a car, but never because of a freewheel.

so i could sleep until 5 minutes before class started and be early...

teiaperigosa, if you're in Ithaca, you must ride about 150 gear inches. Nothin but steep hills there (Buffalo Street!!!!!)

Best,
rlh

Because I love bikes!!!!!!