So I bought a Specialized Langster a couple of months ago to get some more miles in to train for a 24 hour solo MTB race. I rode it with the freewheel once a week on my 35 mile RT commute to work. Today I flipped the hub to fixed and what an experience!

After getting bucked a few times forgetting that I was fixed, working my shoulders and legs trying to slow the bike down a mile long steep downhill, and having my thighs go numb from non-stop pedaling, I had arrived to work looking forward to the ride home again.

So far, I'm hooked but looking for any advice or direction to advice for fixie tips. So far, pretty much everything I read says practice makes perfect, and that's what I plan to do. But I'm wondering if there's any tips I'm missing out on.

Thanks for the help.

Since you "got it" on your first fixed run you'll figure things out yourself naturally. Lot of long time fixed riders got it on their maiden ride on a fixed gear. But many on the other hand are not thrilled after flipping their wheel to the fixed side and they end up staying on the single speed indefinitely. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that either.
The only tip I can offer you at this time is to learn to trackstand. It's so much easier to learn/do on a fixed gear.

use the brakes

I think there's a whole thread devoted to fixie tips.

ME TOO> Just got my first fix this Monday, and I am still taking it very very
carefully, out at night, getting used to it. Terrified of downhill. Maybe when you're younger you don't worry so much.

Spent hours just doing right hand turns, my real weak spot.
Watching kids in NYC traffic, I am convinced that the track stand is necesssary to getting around and fast maneuvers. I plan this as a summer project, already have two other good bikes. No none is rushing me. NYC is really bad bad if you cannot stop.

Keep me posted. I did find pretty quickly that I was using the muscles in the BACK
of my legs for the first time, to stop. Kind of fun to be learning to use a muscle in a whole
new way. Still I want to give myself a lot of time to make this automatic.

Funny thing tho is that getting back on a "normal" bike feels all wrong by now, like
why did the pedals stop going around?

Gene