What do the CTC claim to be unlawful?
I was thinking the same thing, lol
[QUOTE 1960701, member: 9609"]I take it a fixie does not have a freewheeling hub? If that is the case then on downhill bits you must have to lift your legs up and let the pedals spin - So to my question, how do you get your feet back onto the pedals?
It does seem to me to be a bewilderingly stupid design - what are the plus points[/quote]
No you don't lift your legs off, you learn to ride with a high cadence and descend that way. It is a design that was around before freewheeling bikes and considering that it is still relevant today, given the technology advances, it would appear that it is far from a stupid design.
The plus points are numerous and vary depending on the context in which you ride. The shortfalls are also numerous.
But at the end of the day, riding a fixed gear bike is something you need try to decide because if you like it, you will be enjoying yourself enough that the shortfalls wont matter, if you don't like the feeling, then the benefits wont matter because you will be hating riding the thing.
IMO, it's one of things you have to do rather than talk/read about. Especially since people are quite polarised about this, some will come out with all this romanticised zen bullshit, others will says its an old out of date technology and is obsolete. For me, I just like riding a fixed gear bike, I just enjoy the ride quality of it (I also own two geared bikes btw, and I like those too, but I prefer to take the fixed gear).