LOL...Good fun.

Well, this thread makes me laugh. I know I wont be really cool right away, so Ill check back in 2 months and tell you what I've accomplished.

no your not cool your a freakin danger to society you on a bike is just plane old terror on the roads

entertaining post.. keep it updated man.

don't worry -- i have the feeling that natural selection will sort this one out before he has the chance to procreate.

OP: are you riding 52x13 on the street yet? please?

no. Being a "good rider" is cool, regardless of what kind of bike you ride. You're even less cooler than you were before you wrote that (if that is even possible).

"...lol..."

lamalex is right. When I first read your post I thought, first don't ride fixed until you are really comfortable on a bike, and second a 24inch BMX is about the best bike in the world for learning how to really control a bike. Try to ride one around a basic parking lot with high curbs and on some dirt jumps, and generally get off the street!

I'm sure you can ride a bike (and I don't mean to pile on) but so many people get on fixed gear bikes because they are "cool" without knowing how to handle a bike that is is no wonder they can't do tricks in the first two months. These tricks are not really hard but they require 100s if not 1000s of hours on a variety of bikes to get right, to know how balance works and weight transfer, etc.

Most anyone can get there, but just have fun riding and the comfort level will come with time.

Well, you said to keep you updated. I had a few too many beers last night, and decided to try a few new things. I tried a ghost walk, wheelie, and some really long salmon skids.

I can tell you that the ghost walk, resulted in a huge scrape in my frame, bleeding elbows, and palms. I was also not wearing my helmet, but I didn't fall on that, so im lucky. The second try was pretty much the same, except my knee went into my frame and legs went into the tires.

Then came the wheelie. I tired that but my pants got stuck on my seat, so I fell backwards and landed on my back with the bike on top of me, I was wearing my friends freestyle helmet that time.

The salmon skids worked out until I hit a pot hole, and I got a flat. Its okay I fixed that. I didnt get hurt on that one.

This thread is starting to become a joke, of all the things I do on my fixed gear when Im drunk. But knowing everyone wanted updates I posted this.

this can't be real. it's the 53/13 that convinced me this guy's just trolling.


if there's any shread of truth, lol you suck. it took me five minutes to learn to ride, a week to learn to skid.

Yeah there's about a 2% chance this happened. if I this was me drunk-riding I would have quit and gone to do something else after the first fall with the bleeding elbows and the palms and the frame scrapes, never mind getting the flat and then fixing it?

Will someone pretty please photoshop a picture of a fish skidding a bicycle? Or someone riding a fish?

heres a start

Last night I went out to try some skids but I flipped over the hood of two cars and crashed through an old lady's living room window. only got a bloody nose. Then I went back out after fixing the window to try some no-handed trackstands and ended up falling into an open manhole. I love these fixed-gear bikes!!

here's a start

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g6...salmonskid.jpg

as you can see, it is safe to wear sandals... if it's a salmon, of course.

Yay, salmon skids!!!

NO WAI the same thing happened to me but I was on my fixed gear hoverbike so I didn't fall in the manhole.

Oh man!!!!! So good, a slamon skid would be all slimy and there would be shredded scales all over the street

Yeah, now somebody add some scavengers collecting the fish oil from the skid to make vitamin E.

And some PETA protesters.

what's the gearing on that trout?

I fell once, the first time out, because I tried to start standing on the pedal at the bottom of the stroke - it was a big gear 52/16 - and I couldn't pull up the pedal from a dead stop, just fell over sideways. Looked pretty stupid. But that was the only time I fell. Tried to coast a few times, but didn't fall.

Hang in there.

+1

evoke0ne You express all the reasons that attract, at least, me to fixed gear riding. It is way different from freewheeling and soon your light will go on and all will be well. Be careful and enjoy.

well, way to make fun of my spelling...

But its all good...Im down wore through the tread today, so I have to get new tires...

Ill take what the shop suggests...I think they said Specialized All season something or others...

w/e...ill let you know how that goes.