I tried to Search for a similar thread but found nothing so I thought I would ask… and I’m bored at work… Its Origin night so my work is like a ghost town.
What started you lads off in the Biking life…
I started racing mtb out in Ipswich when I was 11 and the love of bikes progressed into road bikes then track.
Show me your first Fixed Build…
Mine built with the help of Andy… converted Moser was sold on to SaintCloud Nick who put it back into it’s rightful config.
cant remember when i started riding… too young, then into bmx for ages, did a tri once and vowed never again, pissed off to skatboarding/driving around 16-17(ooooo ooooo and i had a scooter too, but i was fuckin mad at it so i was cool), needed hobby/transport at about 22/23?? so jumped on the skinny jeans hipster fixie scene.
first one was a giant bowery and i slowley upgraded parts as i could afford, its now a bit of a missmatch of marts/polo slut. can throw pic up when i get home 
I started racing BMX when I was 8…then moved onto XC MTB when I was in high school. My uncle (ex State champion and Elite road racer from the 60’s) owned one of Perth’s reputible bike shops when I was growing up so I had access to lots of bike fruit…My cousin used to race State level track and road. He slowly converted me and my off-road riding ways and started getting me along to some criteriums and B-grade road races when I was about 18. Me and my cousin would hit the velodrome on practice nights every Tuesday to get some cross training in which is when I first rode fixed gear (and it was a sweet early 90’s Cannondale Track which I borrowed from my cuz).
In my 20’s mostly just rode for pleasure. Racing MTB and Road sort of wore me out and I really couldnt be fucked racing and training all the time plus I had university commitments and just being a boss in general. I moved to the country in my mid 20’s for work and did more Mountain biking/dirt jumping because thats what country bogans in hick towns do (plus I got sick of getting bottles thrown at my head and being called a Lance Armstrong faggit everytime I chucked on the lycra and hit the hills).
Anyway fast forward to 2010, moved back to the city and purchased my first fixed gear/track bike for commuting (completely oblivious to the hipster/fixxxayyy revolution which took place in my 6 years absense from Perth)…but luckily for me I met some like minded shitkents who enjoy nothing more than riding hard, sinking beers and dabbling in the odd south east Asian criterium and the odd bit of bike polo on a sunday afternoon.
I could write an essay on my life in the saddle, the victorious high and the ‘getting cleaned up by Nissan Pathfinder’ lows but instead I will leave you with a picture of my first and only fixed gear bike in my stable.
Last of the USA built Cannondales - and is the 5th I’ve had in my stable in my 20 odd years of racing.
We kinda did this here.
My first fixay is still ridden every other day, a Kona Paddywagon with various parts upgrades. Just check the Melbourne Bike Tag thread if you want a picture.
Started riding back in the late 80’s after i saw BMX bandit n got myself one of those blue BMX with 5 spokes wheelset. Then upgraded to a Gold Raleigh BMX and a Mongoose MTB. Into skateboarding after that.
This is my first fixed build back in '09, a converted Bianchi
darn couldn’t for the life of me find this…
og well we can do it again or the mods can shut me down…
nah man, you’re ok.
Well thats good cheers Brendan
Now what’s your story???
punk rock. the rest is just details.
I always had a bike, motorbikes and skateboards growing up, I got my first ‘real’ mountainbike when I was 8 and from then until I was 15 it was all about riding trails and dirt jumps in the bush. Growing up in a country town, when kids become teenagers they usually go crazy, so all the guys I rode with started doing drugs so I started skateboarding. I skateboarded until I was 21 and figured I’d buy another mountain bike to ride to work on. A week or two after buying that bike I moved to the city and would ride it around looking for spots to skateboard. Eventually I got over skateboarding and would just ride my mountain bike and in 2007 I bought a bmx. Following a nice tax return in 2007, i bought a Surly Steamroller, which I rode for a couple years before selling to a friend and buying the RAM. In 2011 I bought my Nature Boy.
This is when I first bought my Steamroller.
And this is how it ended up before I sold it.
This was the only bike I rode from about 15-20years of age, some kid from the skatepark would always bring it down.
This was my mountain bike right before I bought a bmx.
My RAM, it stayed the same for nearly 3 years with only some tyre changes.
Roobaix from a few years back.
Wheelies.
hopping tables in Tasmania in 2009.
Bunny hop in Canberra in 2008
Another photo of the Surly, I forgot I painted those Velocity wheels black!
(Sorry for multiple photos, I got excited in my old photobucket!!)
A classic!!
In year9, we had to do an instructional essay, so I did one on how to do wheelies and endos.
This is one of the photos my mum took for my no foot can endo how to.
Rode BMX as a kid for ages!!!
in 1996 my parents bought me a top-of-the-line Redline RL440. Which was amazing!
So amazing that i nearly got rolled for it as a 10 year old… some bigger kids grabbed me trying to pull me off the bike… I wouldn’t let go… my mum saw, screamed out and the teens ran lol.
Fastforward to 17, had ridden around the streets a little bit, then got into cars…
Fast forward to 22, Packing up my life and moving to Perth, a mate had introduced me to fixed gear bikes at uni but wasn’t really that keen until another mate built one and showed me at a party. I was sold.
I built a horrible conversion complete with quando wheels, too horrible to post, but I was proud. Didn’t ride it too much in Sydney.
Moved to Perth. Rode heaps.
Built a Visp. Changed all the parts on it.
Built my Lo-Pro. Changed all the parts on it.
Bought then rebuilt my Hillman Roadie. Dope.
Got hit by a car, breaking my Lo-Pro.
Built my NJS Bridgestone and have done 215km on it in the last 4 days lol.
Have built a few other bikes (for the gf and beaters) in between. But yeah, the rest is the same as clownshoes, except for the SE Asian criteriums.
i’m such a sucker for these threads. they always rule so hard.
i was into roller blades and listened to silverchair then i got into math punk and discovered fixies while reading vice magazine one day
^ not sure if being Sacastic haha
After reading your I’m in a bad mood Blog this morning not sure i wanna piss you off…
the new timer: I’m In A Bad Mood.
I was down in Melbs the other week and met a couple of lads of the forum and thought that we know very little about the guys from other parts of our great land…
Cool.
No point retyping it, so here’s my story.
http://www.fixed.org.au/forums/f10/your-bicycling-history-19481/#post356249
I’d like to add that I have followed the FOA and now have a CX bike.
I skated from the age of about 10 to around 14, and hated bmx’s and all the c*nts that used to ride them at my local park.
Then iwearmoccos made a thread about track bikes on skateboard.com.au and I desperately wanted one, so i built this…
Man it was a piece of shit. Cost be about $30 and took me months to build, but i loved it.
Then i was working with my dad and pulled this out from under a building at his school:
I rode that for a while then build a bmx and a dick load of other random bikes,
now i only really ride my bundy track that i bought off powdah, good bloke!
yeah, but today i’m in a great mood.
it’s funny how we all know each other but don’t really. rolly and dave and i were talking last night about FOA, and i got all bullish about how i wouldn’t miss it if it were gone, how i’d just go to some other forum and tell people to use the search function there. but that’s only half true. i wouldn’t miss the forum, but i’d miss the people from it, some of whom would disappear into the ether without this place.
I thought this place was the ether?
NOw I don’ know where I am