I have a weak ass soft tail MTB I got as a teenager and it's so frustrating to ride that it turned me off of biking all together. I was thinking of getting a better bike for a long time but couldn't justify spending more money on a bicycle than my car cost.
But now I moved a decent biking distance away from my workplace and got some money as a graduation present for buying a new bike. I'd been looking at these hipster-faggot-fixies for a while and then I saw this in a shop window and fell in love.
I rode it for an hour in the rain to get it home from the shop and I was grinning the whole time.
My ass is pretty sore now though, I hadn't pedaled for almost a year before this. I'll try to get my confidence and physique up a bit and then I'll flip the flop to the fixed gear side.