Oh I'm getin me one of theses, give it give it give it URRRRRRRRRRRRR-whoosh!

I ride mostly up in Hanover County and have never seen any fixed-gear bikes on the road up here. Then again, I sometimes go 30 miles without seeing another bike of any kind.

I try not to be noticed. Not on my bike anyway.... Riding is my escape from everything else I do.

Wimp. For the size and speed of cars:

http://www.thevietnam-database.co.uk/Guns/Law1.jpg

Though, they might not meet conceal carry laws and could be a bit clumsy in your bag.

That inner-tube wrap is free if you work in a bike shop and do tons of flat fixes . . . under those old tubes is an almost perfect paint-job. Best way to spot my bike is the handlebar-tape -- braided two layers black and white reflective tape. Used to be very bright at night -- now it's kind of worn.

construction workers were amazed by the concept of a flip/flop hub.

Running into parked cars doesn't count.

;)

when you were in chicago I always noticed you via the "nextel-innertube-strap" that i always thought
was sketchy & the head phones. oh and you had a cool helmet too.

incidently i don't think i stand out & i prefer that. while everyone in my neighborhood dresses
the part of the dirty messenger or punk kid or whatever I've always been on the casual side
of business-casual and that hasn't changed too much in the last couple of years of being
a giant bike nerd.

i have noticed that if you rock the spandex drivers (esp suburb drivers) give a little more space

yes i was that guy who wore button downs & khakis to the Fireside. and not ironically.

jeff

I know of at least three here in the Twin Cities...

Where I live, the simple act of riding a bike (fixed or otherwise) for transportation makes me part of a very small minority.

Unlike some of you in more urban areas, when I lock up in front of the grocery store, coffee shop, movie theater, library, bar, etc. my bike is often the *only* one there.

So, yeah, you might say I stand out. It's not necessarily intentional though.

-Trevor

For now, the exceptionally ugly yellow conti Grand Prix 3000 tires are doing a pretty good job. They make me wince looking at the bike, but smile while I'm on it... function over form right? They are going to make a very eye bleeding combination when the I get the yellow candies in combination with the red on my saddle. A friend of mine today informed me that I was going to have no choice but to find some yellow bar tape and just resign myself to it.

Oh that and unlike all the other fixed riders in central illinois (my friends included) I generally bathe regularly.

BOOOOO. It was in Chicago and it wasn't parked...only stopped.

i don't i have a f@cking bianchi pista... but i try i have redbullhorns and a red saddle, oh yea and red spacers on my fork, but it is still a bianshi pista... f@ck i wish i had some money to replace it

i do have a f@cking bianchi pista, and i'm doing my dambnabeddest to stand out with a helmet and a buncha capital one fake credit cards as spoke cards. hahaha

Yeah, you need to make it up to Clifton. So far there's about three of us, and we're all posengers/hipsters. There's a Basso track bike that is owned by a former member of Aus Rotten, some orange fixed-gear that I've seen locked-up around UC, and my flat-black menace with a 700C rear wheel and a 27" front.