You know you're addicted to Fixed or SS when...

[4F]

http://g.eoffj.com/2011/05/climbing-and-descending-in-the-italian-alps-on-a-fixed-gear-bike/

No brakes ffs what a nobber

 

[adds21]

...You get to the top of the hill first, and have time to throw up before your geared friends get there.

 

[zigzag]

my ss vs geared bikes ratio is 4:2

i prefer ss, but like riding geared bikes just as much - it depends on my mood and the terrain!

 

[4F]

my ss vs geared bikes ratio is 4:2

i prefer ss, but like riding geared bikes just as much - it depends on my mood and the terrain!

I think this is it in a nutshell, both are different and both are fun.

 

[martint235]

[QUOTE 2593100, member: 30090"]Being pedantic about terminology. There is only single speed, after this has been established then you can say whether it is fixed or free.[/quote]
You say this a lot don't you?

 

[martint235]

[QUOTE 2649473, member: 30090"]Only to stop people looking a wee bit stupid:-

So what you riding?

Yeah, single speed.

Yeah I can see that.....

Just affirms what I already knew, that there are a load of knobbers out there who don't know what they are talking about and can't even trackstand ffs. (present company excluded of course.)[/quote]
I wouldn't exclude me. I can't track stand anything less stable than an MTB

 

[adds21]

[QUOTE 2649473, member: 30090"]
Just affirms what I already knew, that there are a load of knobbers out there who don't know what they are talking about and can't even trackstand ffs. (present company excluded of course.)[/quote]

This is the thing I dislike most about many of the fixed gear riders. I don't care about any of this bloody "down with the kids" rubbish. I ride fixed because I enjoy riding fixed. I'm going to call fixed, fixed, and single speed, single speed, because regardless of the technicality, people know what I'm talking about. I call my Dyson a Hover to. Sue me.

Also, I can't trackstand, or rather, I've never felt the need to try. That makes me an inferrier fixed gear rider does it? Not that I care,

Rant over.

 

[Sharky]

You know you are addicted to fixed/single speed if you have read all the threads down to this one.

 

[GrasB]

[QUOTE 2593100, member: 30090"]Being pedantic about terminology. There is only single speed, after this has been established then you can say whether it is fixed or free.[/quote]
Er... S3X?

 

[Twelve Spokes]

[QUOTE 2754708, member: 1314"]...when someone offers to lend you their geared and you wonder if you still know how to use brakes.[/quote]

Flash git.

Seriously it's gears with me,then when you switch back it's not forgetting that you can't stop pedalling.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Flash git.

Seriously it's gears with me,then when you switch back it's not forgetting that you can't stop pedalling.

Its amazing, I've been back on fixed for over 6 years and about 20000 miles now, and I still forget I can't stop pedalling once in a while.

 

[Twelve Spokes]

Its amazing, I've been back on fixed for over 6 years and about 20000 miles now, and I still forget I can't stop pedalling once in a while.

The problem I have is when the cyclist in front decides to stop pedalling.One the other day it was four strokes and he was out.

 

[totallyfixed]

You get a perverse satisfaction riding with others when you hear the clunk of clumsy gear changing.

Its amazing, I've been back on fixed for over 6 years and about 20000 miles now, and I still forget I can't stop pedalling once in a while.

I'm the opposite, when I ride my geared bike I forget I can stop pedalling.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

You get a perverse satisfaction riding with others when you hear the clunk of clumsy gear changing.



I'm the opposite, when I ride my geared bike I forget I can stop pedalling.

I've done that before now.

 

[JonF]

when I happily rode 53/17during the 'fitter' summer months thinking your the daddy and now it's winter and I think, how the **** did I ride this anywhere other than pan flat roads I need now for it