What age did everyone here start riding fixed/SS?
01-10-09, 04:23 PM
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01-10-09, 05:07 PM
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BMX - for about 10 years (about 8 to 18)
MTB - same as above
Road (geared) - started about 3 years ago
fixed - about a year ago, I'm 28 now & ride all of the above
I have a feeling many younger guys will be sick by the time they're my age (and keep with it)
You kids in high school are lucky, due to the whole fixed gear boom recently, bikes are popular again
I didn't even know about fixed when I was your age! lol
Back in the old days, when I was in middle & high school, I did BMX (dirt & flatland), but skateboarding was big back then, BMX, not so much
MTB - same as above
Road (geared) - started about 3 years ago
fixed - about a year ago, I'm 28 now & ride all of the above
I have a feeling many younger guys will be sick by the time they're my age (and keep with it)
You kids in high school are lucky, due to the whole fixed gear boom recently, bikes are popular again
I didn't even know about fixed when I was your age! lol
Back in the old days, when I was in middle & high school, I did BMX (dirt & flatland), but skateboarding was big back then, BMX, not so much
01-10-09, 05:54 PM
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ive been riding fixed for years on and off. when i was a little kid i had a purple track bike. then i got into real bikes with big boy gears. about a year and a half ago i built me a fixie because i saw all these skinny kids in their girlfriends' jeans attempting to ride bikes (which all seemed to be fixed)- i felt as if it was my manifest destiny to ride fixed too.
no offense to guys who are real skinny and ride bikes for fashion accessories, im just real cynical.
no offense to guys who are real skinny and ride bikes for fashion accessories, im just real cynical.
01-10-09, 06:25 PM
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6 yo. did it for 10 years. Because it was all I had. I longed for a freewheel. I am now traumatized.
Same reason I don't like brown onions. Damn brown onions!
Same reason I don't like brown onions. Damn brown onions!
01-10-09, 06:29 PM
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I first rode fixed when I was about 23, but I was more into skateboarding then. I would borrow a friend's conversion and we'd ride around town. He had a track bike, which was way cooler than the conversion he'd let me ride. Eventually, I talked him into just towing me on my skateboard all the time, so I didn't ride bikes much until I got tired of falling. Also, about 5 years ago I moved to Albuquerque which has hills so skateboarding was only a one-way transportation option. So I bought a track bike a couple years ago when I was 29, I'm 32 now. It's fun, I love riding it, and wouldn't ever give it up BUT I really wouldn't mind having a super-fly road bike with one of them whatchamacallits that changes the thingys and those stoppy levers. Just as an alternative.
01-10-09, 08:13 PM
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14 in 1984. I used to race track then tried it out on the street back then with a few other crazies. I've always had one laying around and rode from time to time but I switched my commuter to fixed a few years ago.
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01-10-09, 08:47 PM
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ive been riding fixed for years on and off. when i was a little kid i had a purple track bike. then i got into real bikes with big boy gears. about a year and a half ago i built me a fixie because i saw all these skinny kids in their girlfriends' jeans attempting to ride bikes (which all seemed to be fixed)- i felt as if it was my manifest destiny to ride fixed too.
no offense to guys who are real skinny and ride bikes for fashion accessories, im just real cynical.
no offense to guys who are real skinny and ride bikes for fashion accessories, im just real cynical.
01-10-09, 08:56 PM
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i started at 8 or so in bmx. and i rode bmx until about 15 when my dad got an mtb single speed and i fell in love with big wheels. then right before i started college i built up a fixed schwinn. no i'm starting to ride bmx again, but mainly the schwinn.
01-10-09, 09:09 PM
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01-11-09, 01:35 AM
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rode bmx as a kid until i was about 11 when i sort of stopped riding. started riding again at 18 as a commuter/utility cyclist. ended up enjoying it and found the hobby i had always been looking for.
when i re-discovered bikes i rode SS MTB as thats what i had, but i soon discovered that road bikes are much faster. i ended up buying a fuji track.
ive now been riding fixed/ss for 5 years, alougth ive got into geared road bikes in the last two.
when i re-discovered bikes i rode SS MTB as thats what i had, but i soon discovered that road bikes are much faster. i ended up buying a fuji track.
ive now been riding fixed/ss for 5 years, alougth ive got into geared road bikes in the last two.
01-11-09, 06:29 PM
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i'm 22 and started stealing my roommate's fixed about 2 years ago until he finally convinced me to buy my own haha.
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started riding fixed about 5 months ago, and i was 17, now im 18
01-12-09, 12:30 AM
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I rode a coaster brake Schwinn when I was five.
Gave up riding when I got a car at 16. Got rid of the car 4 years later when I moved to downtown Chicago. Rode a couple mountain bikes for a while, then my dad gave me a Nishiki Prestige road bike.
I finally bought my Raleigh Rush Hour fixed/SS (pics) in 2007 when I was 22. I'm now 24, riding single speed for 1.5 years and fixed on my now-converted Prestige for 1 year. I, too, wish I started sooner.
Since I got the Rush Hour, I've converted three other people to fixed/SS and weirdly, they all independently purchased Schwinn Madisons.
Gave up riding when I got a car at 16. Got rid of the car 4 years later when I moved to downtown Chicago. Rode a couple mountain bikes for a while, then my dad gave me a Nishiki Prestige road bike.
I finally bought my Raleigh Rush Hour fixed/SS (pics) in 2007 when I was 22. I'm now 24, riding single speed for 1.5 years and fixed on my now-converted Prestige for 1 year. I, too, wish I started sooner.
Since I got the Rush Hour, I've converted three other people to fixed/SS and weirdly, they all independently purchased Schwinn Madisons.
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01-12-09, 12:33 AM
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38. I'm 41 now.
01-12-09, 01:01 AM
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46... maybe.
I have a bike that I plan on converting over to FG later this year.
I have a bike that I plan on converting over to FG later this year.
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