Environmental engineer in Seattle, the summer days are beautiful and perfect for riding, fixed or not, as for the winter, well that's a different story. We definitely pay our dues in the rain and hills, but the pay off is huge! Currently the fixed is my all-around bike commuting, playing, etc.

Although the gears still do come out occasionally on big road rides.

sorry, no. Not sure what stands in its place

my blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold...

it did have good breakfast potatoes...went there a coupla times, when finances allowed.

I'm Andy (but most call me Merz) and yes I'm also working on my MS in computer science. I also live in west philly, but spend most of my days (and often nights) working over the bridge in Camden. I'm riding a gray Pista with the default 48x16.

And yeah, I do occasionly ride with that tool, Syntax ;)

Oh, and Evan, I guess I am "31337"
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I was up in Seattle for the first time a few weeks ago and really dug it. The weather was perfect. How bad is the winter really? How cold does it get?

Its not as bad as everyone says, sure it rains, but never very hard and not nearly as much as everyone claims. Its not that cold, snow is a very rare occurrence, many winters pass without any snow.

Do you know a guy named Magnum? :) Living in Hawaii must be great. i've never been there but have only heard good things.

I'm Dave. I'm a partner in an interactive design firm called eatdrink (www.eatdrink.com). I stay away from food with a face and like my music punk and rock. Currently in Chicago by way of Las Vegas. I work stupidly long hours and try to fill the rest of the time on two wheels. Look for me downtown, I'll be the posenger with the tan chrome bag on a 1986 Fuji Pulsar (42x16 SS) with an artistically handicapped electrical tape job or my soon to be complete 1948 Repco gold Path Racer (48x18 fixie).

Howdy.
-Dave

Hawaii is allright. I've been here for about 5 years so all the allure has worn off. If things go right i'll be living in San Fran Dec 05'. Only one messenger company (Maybe 5 or 6 messers) for the whole island. A handful of fixie riders but never any get togethers. We are workin on it.

I'm Matt. I'm in Madison, WI. Just graduated from the university here, more-or-less film studies/production (what little they offer). I'm moving to Arizona in a month.

I've got a "safety green" spraypainted Bianchi fixie, three weeks old. Otherwise, I ride an old VooDoo hardtail, a Miyata racer, and an old mongoose SS conversion. I mainly commute around town and occasionally hit the S. Kettles for offroad. There seem to be plenty of fixed people here in town, but I don't really know anyone else.

I try to do all my own repairs. My hands are usually pretty scraped and greasy.

Seattle has very few big rainstorms, just lots of perpetual small storms. It's actually warm here in the winter, it snows maybe once a year and when it does, the city shuts down and it becomes a big playground!

my name is chris. i'm 27. i live in colorado springs. i work at a die sinking shop. we make the forging dies for craftsman and rigid tools. i mostly do the cad/cam stuff on the 'puter, but i operate machines too. i'm into bikes, painting, music in all forms, enebriation in many forms, and i also LEGALLY road race and autocross my honda civic. (though it it motorless at the moment...)

i mostly ride my brakeless 48x16 iro jamie roy fixie, but i also have an old peugeot brakeless 48x16 fixie with inverted moustache bars, an old ross with shimano 600 5 speed group, and a j.c. higgins cruiser. i'm also into downhill/freeride sort of mountain biking. i have a spare parts **** mountain bike that was a ss until just recently. i now am running a 105 rear derailleur and 7 speed cassette. i'm starting to race track this season. xcutterx is lending me his matsuri track bike until i get the money for a custom ground up track frame and fork.

i'm steve in madison, wi.
work for a software company programming and doing a bit of technical writing (a place and a job that i'd like to put behind me...anyone hiring?)

i'm a year-round commuter and ride just about everywhere else (i only seem to drive these days to put the canoe in the river).

2 fixies, 4 ss, and one 3spd (as well as numerous potential "projects" hanging in the rafters).

I'm Scott and I do telephone tech support (hardware, database and network) for a software company in Opelika, AL. I moved here from Charlotte, NC about 5 years ago. Opelika is very near Auburn University, which has a collegiate cycling team and I train on the road with them some. There's many other fine older riders in this area too, which was a pleasant surprise. I'm 43.

I built my first fixed gear bike from a celeste Bianchi road bike about two months ago. At first, I didn't see what all of the fuss was about and said so in a post. After logging some miles on it I get it now.

Richmond, Virginia, by way of Stockport UK, Berlin NH, Charlottesville VA, Beloit WI and a few others I forget.

Ride a variety of bikes; fixed are a 1973 Peugeot UO10 and a 1973 Peugeot PX10E. The remainder run from a 1967 PX10 to a Surly. Year round commuter; more of a classics guy, really, but I watch this board for the fireworks and general amusement value. Draw cartoons for a living.

I'm an architect-in-training in downtown Denver (Capitol Hill). Been here since last fall. I guess i'm unintentionally an American Nomad. Working backwards: Three years in New Haven, CT; three years in Chicago; two years in upstate New York;ten years off and on in Anchorage, Alaska. Been riding fixed/SS a little over a year, to the exclusion of my other bikes. I've got a krylon sky blue Shogun fixie with red tires and black bullhorns that I ride everywhere and for everything--work commute, grocery, fun, anger, meditation, pub crawling. I did recently acquire a De Bernardi track frame that I am hoping to build up nice once I repaint it. I know a few other fixed riders here, and I'm always happy to talk bikes/life with whomever.

Sorry to the rest of the people for the following tangent, but...

Merz is commenting in reference to a part of my original message that I posted in white font so that it would be "invisible" against the white background.

Does Safari (or whatever browser you used) show it to you? Mozilla/firefox hides it unless it is highlighted. I'm not sure about IE.

Alright. I've been reading these boards for about a year now, and this thread finally made me register. Here goes:

My name is David. I live in NYC. I'm a post-bachelor student at NYU taking science classes so I can go to med school. I've been riding fixed every day in the city for about 4 months. I ride a bianchi pista with a custom white-with-red-trim electrical taped body, chopped and flipped drop bars, and a brand new brake which I put on this week after getting hit by a car on friday and saturday (both not my fault and both preventable if I'd've had a brake).

It showed up when I quoted your message..

Damn dude, hope u an ur bike are ok. Good call on the brake, i have a front and even though i never use it, it's not coming off.

j from norfolk, va here. right now, i'm a part-time antique shop lackey/fixit guy, and occasional student when i have money to pay for a class at the one of the local colleges. i'm one of only two fixie riders in this town, all the punkrock/hc/emo hipster types here ride bmx bikes when they're not driving daddy's suv. anyway, i ride a 90's Cannondale track with a full Suntour group, which will be rebuilt with a Dura-Ace 10mm/EX group once i get my hands on the correct headset.

Here I am at 1:53 in the morning, appreciating a fine PBR 24 and reading through the posts. Not only am I touched that I received so large a response, but I think its great that there are so many different spreads of life contained therein.

From someone in their late 40's on a fix for the first time, to the messers and posenguers in their early 20's, I truly learn to appreciate the diversity of our obsession, yet the at the same time see the wonderful connection that it brings.

At one time I used to get excited about any fellow cyclist out there, but now the prospect of a fixie on the street with me just touches a special place in my heart, regardless of their social status.

So thanks, keep it up, and all you PDX guys that I know are lurking - Post something! I need some riding and drinking buddies who share the obsession.

1G1G,

Petros

I guess all you chicago cats all ready know each other. I've been lurking around for awhile so I guess it's about time I properly introduce myself...

I'm Val, absentr knows me and I think I know cyclorat, live on the south side, am technically in grad school but find myself easily diverted by my musical interests and various associated gigs I get myself into and my bike addiction.

I maintain a small bike corral in my apartment, two of which are fixed. I've been riding, almost exclusively, my '77 red raleigh running 52x15 because I like to go faaast and fly by all the roadies on their souped up $$$ geared bikes. I really feel connected to that bike, sort of like an old friend you can always call on because you know they will be there for you. I know that sounds really lame but it's true and I'm sure some or most of you can relate. Anyway, I also have a steamroller which I got smashed on a few months ago by a car on milwaukee ave. I'm lacking funds and still have a few things to fix on that bike. Other than that I have a few frames lying around in various states of assembly/disassembly, I have a few geared bikes which really don't need mention except my eddy merckx steel lugged road bike which is really sweet for any sort of situation when gears are required.

I can't be the only girl here...?