www. myspace.com/sunnyd
*what's your name?
My name is Sonia Serba, better known as Sunny D the photonic emcee.
*what's your bikes name?
I have 2 bikes at the moment: Kierin the Kraptastic Kuwahara, and Ollie the Opus. Kierin's fixed and Ollie's full-gears for long-hauls.
*what is the bike/setup you're riding (what's your gearing at least)?
Kierin's my winter-beater bike, so he's got a front-brake for hairy traffic situations in Canadian winters. He's 44/17 spintastic and he's pretty heavy with triple-butted steel tubing and full-fenders. I find that riding a clunky bike in winter makes for really fun when riding lighter bikes in the summer.
*how long have you been riding fixed?
I've been riding fixed gear for 3 years. I competed in my first alleycat not quite a week after converting to fixed (my 1st Sunday riding fixed gear) and came in 1st girl, 3rd overall. The race started in an alley and I nearly crashed into the adjacent curb straight off the hop!! That's just what happens when your left turns are too wide in a crowd of racers! hahaha...
*how long did you cycle before you "converted" as it were?
I bought a heavy-ass Infinity Telluride piece of crap mountain bike from Costco in 1999 and rode it on occasion, then became a bike courier in 2003, and switched to fixed-gear the last week of October in 2005.
*how has cycling changed or defined your life (if it has)?
My entire life changed after I switched from a car-centric mentality to a bike- & pedestrian-centric mentality. I see the matrix for what it is, clearer than ever. Everything looks different now.
*what's the most damage you've accrued to you or your ride while riding a fixie?
Shoot! I was riding Hayden the Hutsebaut track bike, coming to a red light, riding around some big, beefy motorcyclist who was in my lane: between the streetcar track and row of parked cars. I crossed the track to my left at the correct angle, went around dumb-ass, then crossed back to the right over the track at the correct angle, but when I went to straighten out into my lane, my bike didn't respond because there was a layer of dry but greasy garbage juice on the road. I ran into a parked van at a fairly slow speed but my frame was MUNCHED. The head tube was completely pushed back and the top and down tubes were buckled. I got the frame straightened, but a couple months later I noticed that the top lug was cracked almost all the way around. I cried and hung the frame on my wall as art.
*what's your most embarrassing fixie moment?
See above. The motorcyclist had no sympathy and didn't really get that he was an asshole for not properly driving in his own lane.
*anything else you'd like to say?
Buy my CD! Come meet me for Kyoto Loco and the CMWC in Tokyo in September! Also, look out for my new album Poor Little Bitch Girl dropping next year.
visit Sunny D here.
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