My bikes - the Trackster

This bike I bought from my friend Tim. It is Bianchi Pista track bike with flat bars. I absolutely love riding this bike. I use it for recreational rides and as a general around town bike. I got exposed to alot of fixed gear bikes while I was working as a bike courier in Wahington, DC (seemed like at least half the couriers were riding them), and I knew that I had to have one. Since I bought it, I have learned that the allure of fixed gear bikes is not their minimalist coolness or their cultish fashionability, but in fact the totally different experience riding them provides as opposed to regular bikes. There is a Zen-like oneness with the bike that is difficult to describe.