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View Poll Results: How long have you been riding fixed?
I just started Art school. So i bought one! 6 5.71%
Less than a year 34 32.38%
1-3 years 43 40.95%
Forever. I was BORN fixed. What are gears? 22 20.95%
Voters: 105. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 27th August 2008   #1
pete
 
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How long have you been riding fixed

Was just thinking about it last night while riding around. I love it, but have only had a fixed gear for 4 months.

So... wanted to see what the rest of you are like.

Are we all hipster fakengers, or do most have longer fixed traditions?
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Old 27th August 2008   #2
Will_s87
About 1.5 years ago about the same time the trend kicked off. I jumped on the bandwagon, and what!
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Old 27th August 2008   #3
Ved
 
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Fakengers unite!...after work...
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Old 27th August 2008   #4
|³|MA3K
 
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One Decade.

December 1998.
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Old 27th August 2008   #5
RPM
 
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about 30 years.

with a sort of lull in the middle
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Old 27th August 2008   #6
hippy
 
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You counting those little front wheel drive kiddie trikes RPM?
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Old 27th August 2008   #7
RPM
 
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no, it would be about 32 years in that case!
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Old 27th August 2008   #8
hippy
 
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So you're counting the slightly larger kiddie trikes then?
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Old 27th August 2008   #9
lucky
about 2.5 years ago when a mate gave me one.
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Old 27th August 2008   #10
Object
 
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3 years if you're talking about fixed
15 if you're talking single speed (mountain bikes & BMX)
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Old 27th August 2008   #11
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Rode my dads old winter trainer fixed for a couple of years back in 1999-2001 then mostly just BMX until about 9 months ago, so 2 years 9 months, or 9 years, or 9 months depending on how you want to measure it.
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Old 27th August 2008   #12
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Finished building my first fixed just over a year ago and love it more with each passing day... Love it, I tell you! :D
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Old 27th August 2008   #13
pj (pj)
it's a bit like asking when you lost your virginity. everyone is going to lie exaggerate and say 'when i was two, my auntie gertrude in the barn'.
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Old 27th August 2008   #14
hael
 
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fixed!? ...wont catch me on one of those medieval death machines, Ive been riding my recumbent for about 3 years now.
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Old 27th August 2008   #15
teenslain
 
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I was born clutching a copy of Funhouse by The Stooges tho'... Even tho' it came out three years after I was born... ;)
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Old 27th August 2008   #16
Crispin Glover
 
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I lost my virginity to a French wet-nurse on a fixed gear in 1983.
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Old 27th August 2008   #17
hael
 
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wet nurse.... :D

.. god damn those carry on films!!!
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Old 27th August 2008   #18
fred
 
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rode fixed (track) for 3 years, 21 years ago(!). have been riding fixed for the last 18 months.
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Old 27th August 2008   #19
BringMeMyFix
 
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A bit like RPM - 27 years, with a lull in the middle, getting back into it (all bikes, including geared) in the early 90s.
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Old 27th August 2008   #20
fixedfreak (max)
 
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about 3 and a half years
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Old 27th August 2008   #21
andyp
 
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I dabbled in track racing around 20 years ago but started riding fixed on the road in early 2007.

I've been wearing white jeans for years though so am a hipster first and foremost.
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Old 27th August 2008   #22
Jacqui
 
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about 4 years now.. about 3months after coming here.
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Old 27th August 2008   #23
Sam
 
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When I was two, my Auntie Gertrude in the barn.
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Old 27th August 2008   #24
Jim Jones
 
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no ss option to sort the boys from the men?
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Old 27th August 2008   #25
pajamas
 
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Quote:
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When I was two, my Auntie Gertrude in the barn.
is this Dirty Auntie Gertie?

Wife of Dirty Uncle Bertie?

I lost my virginity to him and he certainly wasn't fixed.
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Old 27th August 2008   #26
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A bit like RPM - 27 years, with a lull in the middle, getting back into it (all bikes, including geared) in the early 90s.
Come to think of it, other than on Rollas, I've never seen you on a fixed wheel bike...Fakefakenger!
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Old 27th August 2008   #27
deadly fanny pack
 
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my first bike was a fixed! remember it was bloody annoying at the time.
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Old 27th August 2008   #28
Ramon
On and off since I was fifteen. Grandad gave me his fixed tourer. It amused me and my delinquent friends for a summer, then i got a moped, threw it in the garage and never saw it again.
I'm forty three now.
Last edited by Ramon; 27th August 2008 at 12:06.. Reason: I thought I was twenty seven
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Old 27th August 2008   #29
BringMeMyFix
 
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Come to think of it, other than on Rollas, I've never seen you on a fixed wheel bike...Fakefakenger!
I told you - I'm fucking invisible. Out there every day with a direct drive, living in EC1 for 15 years - am I spotted... am I fuck.
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Old 27th August 2008   #30
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I told you - I'm fucking invisible. Out there every day with a direct drive, living in EC1 for 15 years - am I spotted... am I fuck.
that's your story and you're sticking to it.
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Old 27th August 2008   #31
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1.5 years, the first six month was on 16-52 on a converted Peugeot, then 16-47 (same bike) for another eight month and then Bianchi Pista.
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Old 27th August 2008   #32
Brucy
Forever!
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Old 27th August 2008   #33
winston
 
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31 years on and off....

first rode track when I was 9 and first BCF race when I was 10, you were supposed to be 11 but my dad "accidentally" filled in the license application form incorrectly.
Last edited by winston; 27th August 2008 at 18:15..
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Old 27th August 2008   #34
BringMeMyFix
 
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Surely not? You barely look a day over 25, apart from the recent head growth ;)
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Old 27th August 2008   #35
Crispin Glover
 
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My first bike was a little yellow BMX, I remember the very moment I worked out how to balance on it, Packwood Close, Redditch, circa 1985.
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