What made you decide to get a fixed gear bike? Answer seriously and honestly

GO KEVIN!!!!
me and srf4life started like a year and a half ago...he started a month before me and i whas jelous!! i remember when he got his deep-v weimans we all worshipped him. who cares if someone buys the same bike as u or there bike doesnt look "cool" to u!!! alot of us fixed gear riders are being hatters and thats not what its about!! we ride kus its fun and thats that. go ahead, talk shit on my blogspot!!! i made a blog and u talk crap on it! i dont care what other people say!! and no one else should!!! so screw all the other people that give us a hard time and ride for YOU and ride to ride!

-jonathan

skids

I didn't mean it like that just meant that I would talk shit. Maybe the first in my group of friends but by no means the first person anywhere. Damn I guess I should have payed a little bit more attention proof reading. Jumpy jumpy

-built4death

Well, it just seemed like you were outright bragging like many people do. It just didn't appear relevant to the rest of the story anyways. Thanks for explaining, and I think you're a nice guy so I guess that it was weird to hear you start out your story like that.

And I don't see why everyone else was so up in arms about what I said.

8=D

hipster girls...

to commute.
very low maintenance, efficient, tons of fun, & yes, the girls too.

I have always loved riding bikes. . .since I got my first little black Schwinn cruiser at 5 years old. But about 3 and a half years ago my older brother started making fixed gears.He found me a sweet old 1970's Nishiki road bike at a swapmeet. I kept the gears & brake on since it was my first road bike.He cleaned it up for me and I road that for a year and half, it was such a great bike. I decided I wanted something smoother & I was definitely over dealing with gears and had learned alot from my brother about fixed gears. So after selling my road bike I purchased a new simple bike off Ebay, no fancy brand or anything and was really happy with it...still am. So haha, there's my 2 cents on why I decided to get a fixed gear.
 

i was riding home one night after monday night football i was riding a kaddy beach cruiser and my homie kettle and phil(perp) had fixed gear bikes kettle has a specialized carbon addict bike and perp had the bianchi pista at the time and we were all riding together and i couldent keep up to save my life and i just frustrated and that weekend I ordered a Motobacane Track and its been history ever since.

my license is suspended and the fixed gear skids

i found a roadbike my neighbor was throwing away so I asked if i could have it, used it for a bit, it really needed to be tuned up so i traded it for a conversion

I was at a Paramore concert and saw the roadies doing track stands and backwards circles outside of the band's trailer. I was instantly intrigued. And thus, my journey into fixed gear riding began.

I was at a Paramore concert .

-thesirloinsurfer

Holy fucking fail!

well yes, it was. the sound was really terrible, we were in the back of the concert venue and it was really quiet, i mean i could barely hear the band. my good friend was a fan and they were playing during the oc fair so he made me go with him.

so i can hang out with white people. and get some possible poon

also cause my good ol' friend got me into it. and i needed something to get around for highschool

Seriously Mash's Andy's clip. pretty much what I thought was cool since I wasn't into tricks.

so i can hang out with white people. and get some possible poon

-yoyopeter

That's not really reasonable, there's more asians than white people that ride in Orange County.

ive been riding bmx for 18 years, and when i was almost 13 my buddies older brother and i had some trails in northern indiana. he was a messenger downtown chicago, and asked me "want to make money, and ride your bike all day?". duh, so he handed down a miyata 1000 (which if you dont know is a REALLY nice road bike, and kinda hard to come by in good shape) and we converted it to a suicide. thats where it started. i then built up a colnago olympic conversion, then yojimbo's garage helped me get my first brigestone. almost 10 years later im here hahahaha

now i can ride everyday of the year, comfortably. love it