Getting to Know You!

[fixedgeargirl]

Real name: Jennifer
Where do you live? Recently moved to Austin, TX

Explanation of your handle: I love, love, love my scorcher (fixed gear bike)

Explanation of your avatar: Gotta git me one of them!

Age (general or specific) 34

Occupation: Administrative Assistant

Favorite bike: depends on when you ask

What's in your stable? Scorcher: a frame rescued from a scrap pile, powder coated a shade I call Deep Purple, built up with some random used parts,a fixed gear rear hub, sweep cruiser bars mounted upside down, platform clipless pedals and a v-brake on the front. Road: custom Willits titanium. Mtn.: custom Willits steel in HOT PINK (I call the shade candy raspberry).

Fastest speed on a road bike? where? when? I just got a computer and have seen 40 mph on some forgotten section of a long ride around here. I know I've gone faster than that on the back of the tandem and solo in the mountains, just don't have the digital proof.

Another picture of yourself or your ride? I don't have a digital camera. Need to remedy that.

Most memorable moment on my bike: Anytime I do something I didn't think I could.

Most fun ever had on a bike? I was in my second season of riding single track when I accepted an invitation to go on a 9-day mtb tour from SW Colorado to Moab. The whole tour was great...well, maybe except the first day which started with a long, cobbly climb during which I sat down and wept and which I finished last. Mid-way through the tour we had a half day's riding that was suitable for scorchers, wide and swoopy and we wingnuts had to pass the others on uphills just to make it to the top and my friend Geo giving me a little boost now and then at the crest of a hill, and I ran my front wheel right into a mud hole and supermanned over the bars and came up laughing and MAN was it great!!!

[Jennifer Gallow]

Just killed 45 minutes reading these! How fun is that?

Real name: Jennifer, Jen to my friends

Where do you live? Sunny California

Explanation of your handle: Err .... guess I'm not so creative, eh?

Explanation of your avatar: Avatar sounds like a bird. I don't like the birds so much.

Age (general or specific) 28

Occupation: Media Specialist

Favorite bike: I love those new Paul Frank beach cruisers

What's in your stable? Trek road bike, goofy hybird I got from my cousin

Fastest speed on a road bike? where? when? In the 40s, frequently ... it's hilly around here and I LOVE to go fast!! There's one downhill stretch that's about three miles, newly paved and curvy and seldom travelled ... my little slice of heaven!

Another picture of yourself or your ride? Not until I can drag-and-drop a picture into this window.

Most memorable moment on my bike: Finishing a century side by side with my BF thinking I've never had so much fun! (and oh yeah how far to the hot tub?!)

Most fun ever had on a bike? Those beautiful warm mornings when the temp is perfect and the air is clear and you can ride through the hills and smell sage here, and lemongrass there ... and the further you go the further you THINK you can go. I love that.