Dads on Fixies
 

So I owed my dad a few bucks for some work related stuff, and he's on the phone right now buying a specialized Langster for some winter training (he rides > 2000 miles a year and wanted a new toy), and I'll be picking it up for him tommorow and riding it to his office.

hoorah for dads getting more bike toys.

And here I thought this was for those of us with kids...

I'm a dad on a Fixie.

I have 2 luminously beautiful girls, one with histiocytosis, and I ride for her---my Dad prefers norton motorcycles

hijack: I have a two year old boy and a fiveish month old girl. They own me.

my dad's like 52 though, he's getting older and could still kick my ass on a bike.

My Dad's got some nice bikes. I may just have inherited the bug from him. He's got an old Holdsworth that is pretty cool, but he doesn't really get the fixy thing.

Oh yeah, and he hasn't been able to outride me since I was 13 and grew legs :D.

My daughter is 11 has a decent MTB, and is becoming a fairly skilled rider. Maybe someday she might even get into fixed. For now she digs gears.

My 7 year old son has Muscular Dystrophy, and rides in a trailer sometimes and drives a powerchair. Dr. Mojo, you're an inspiration to me. I doubt I could mount anything of the scale you are doing, but I might just look into ways to raise $ for Muscular Dystrophy research on my bike.

my dad prefers growing fatter :(

it's always good to see parents passing on good habits (like biking) to their kids :)

i get inspired every day--by families with tragic stories--but are still willing to help pull this ride off. My heart goes out to your son, if you ever want to brainstorm about fundraising, let me know, it has been my life for the past 2 years. Thanks for the kind words, back atcha, with interest!!!
I guess there are some breeders on this forum.

im glad my dad doesn't ride and quit working out, cause now, i think if it came down to it i could take the old man in a fight. not that i've wanting to do that since my angsty teenage years, but he started working out when i hit puberty so i couldn't do it back then.

My dad rode his '72 Schwinn Varsity until last year, when he inherited a mid-80s Trek (pretty nice, 531, Suntour components I believe). While undeniably heavy, Varsities get a way worse rap than they deserve since nobody maintains them. His was very smooth...good shifting, everything. A nice ride.

He likes Sheldon Brown but I think he's too old to go fixed.

Well part of the reason he feels like he can go fixed is because there are front and rear brakes. Without that I think it might be too much on his knees, and I don't wanna have to take care of a hobbling dad in 10 years. Plus is had relaxed road geometry, and he's gonna mainly use it for short 20-25 mile rides.

I'm a dad with a fix

Another dad on a fixed. Two boys, 3 and 5 years old.

my dad rides a recumbant trainer :P

grandpa on a fixie.

biking runs in the family

dad on fix. i actually won some play doh in an alleycat recently (for being first newbie) and when I gave it to my 2.5 yo daughter she told me that I was the best daddy ever.

I remember my parents having road bikes when I was a kid- they'd bought them in Italy while living there during part of college and ridden them all around the country.

They later developed chronic fatigue syndrome and stopped riding them. Our house wasn't very big, so the bikes rusted up outside. I don't have any strong memories of what the bikes looked like.. Wish I did!

This thread made me remember that, and now I'm having horrible visions of vintage lugged-steel all-campy Cioccs or something that probably went in the scrapheap as piles of oxidized metal.

They were probably more like Italian Huffys though ;) The 'rents were broke college kids back then.

Yeah, mine too, but I will make it my business to get my son into biking (or whatever sort of healthy, outdoor stuff he likes). Right now he's 1.5, so no fixie yet, but whenever we're outside and he sees someone riding, he gets all excited and says "Bike! Bike!" (If he's with my wife when I'm not there and he sees someone riding, he says, "Dada!")

"Luminously beautifiul" Those are nice words. My kids fit that description. Three year old Sophie and seven year old Guy. Guy rides his mountain bike and Sophie loves the trailer.

I'm a new fixed convert but would love a 1970 candy Apple red 750 Commando to add to the growing fleet.

Ride on!

~jg

oooohhh PWNED

;)

my dad's getting fatter too and he's developing heart problems because of it. I want to get him on a bicycle, but I think he has more fun on his BMW R1100S with full race pipes, gears, chip... and full carbonfibre body.

My 18 year old son could say the same thing.

so my dad's super excited, and will be stopping by the shop to get sized up tommorow. He's a little hesitant about riding it to the office from the bike shop (about 7 miles) through traffic as his first fixed gear ride, so I'll be doing the honors for him. Man, if it weren't for the fact that I found out how much my pink phils / open pro / black spokes / radial laced wheels are gonna cost me, I'd be too psyched right now. Instead I'm pretty psyched, but kicking myself for getting into a ramen only situation for the next month or two.