I will ride tarck again!
my enthusiasm is my faith they’ll one day they’ll build the 'drome they planned to.
and then theres the people that think they arent doing it because its a trend, and feel the need to let everyone know theyre above it
ponderous padawans.
How could anyone completely give up riding fixed? Like sell every fixed bike without any intention of buying another one. I can understand switching to riding geared most of the time. But we all got into riding fixed for a reason and hopefully that reason was that we liked the way they rode and not just for the scene. I can’t imagine not having at least one fixed bike if it was at all possible. I’ll probably be riding geared most of the time from now on, but I still feel that for densely urban areas where traffic isn’t too fast, fixed (with or without brakes) is vastly superior to geared due to the ability to control your speed that you lose with a freewheel and brakes. And I still love the feeling of being so intimately connected to the bike.
I hope I’ll never outgrow riding fixed.
and then theres the people that think they arent doing it because its a trend, and feel the need to let everyone know theyre above it
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HAAAAAAA!!!
coming from YOU!
oh man, thanks for the lols…
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thank you tim, for keeping it real.
[quote=TimArchy]How could anyone completely give up riding fixed? Like sell every fixed bike without any intention of buying another one. I can understand switching to riding geared most of the time. But we all got into riding fixed for a reason and hopefully that reason was that we liked the way they rode and not just for the scene. I can’t imagine not having at least one fixed bike if it was at all possible. I’ll probably be riding geared most of the time from now on, but I still feel that for densely urban areas where traffic isn’t too fast, fixed (with or without brakes) is vastly superior to geared due to the ability to control your speed that you lose with a freewheel and brakes. And I still love the feeling of being so intimately connected to the bike.
I hope I’ll never outgrow riding fixed.[/quote]
^This.
90% of my riding is done in the city within a 15 or so mile radius of my house. Right now I probably still ride fixed 75% of the time. If I had a huge commute it might be a different story.
I hope I never out grow having fun on bikes.
[quote=TimArchy]How could anyone completely give up riding fixed? Like sell every fixed bike without any intention of buying another one. I can understand switching to riding geared most of the time. But we all got into riding fixed for a reason and hopefully that reason was that we liked the way they rode and not just for the scene. I can’t imagine not having at least one fixed bike if it was at all possible. I’ll probably be riding geared most of the time from now on, but I still feel that for densely urban areas where traffic isn’t too fast, fixed (with or without brakes) is vastly superior to geared due to the ability to control your speed that you lose with a freewheel and brakes. And I still love the feeling of being so intimately connected to the bike.
I hope I’ll never outgrow riding fixed.[/quote]
Knee pain, for me, though it was a combination of different factors but riding fixed aggravated it. Like I said, I still enjoy riding fixed, but I don’t want to do it all the time. Variety is a good thing.
I hope I never outgrow riding bikes.
yeha what Tim said.
my only bike at the moment is my tarck bike, and it suits my purposes (riding 8 miles to work, or just riding around the city) just fine.
i ride a track bike w/o brakes atm, so i know how i feel like i’m in total control of my speed, but what about being on a road bike with 2 brakes makes it less speed-controlled?
nothing.
maybe a little less control at extremely low speeds because it’s harder to trackstand on a geared bike.
[quote=Petr5]I will ride tarck again!
my enthusiasm is my faith they’ll one day they’ll build the 'drome they planned to.[/quote]
Pretty sure they’ve given up on that. Seeing how all the rich people who donated did so with the express intent of having it be spent on the velodrome, so naturally they built the dirt park around it with all that money first. Way to piss off all your potential donors, jackasses.
and then theres the people that think they arent doing it because its a trend, and feel the need to let everyone know theyre above it
;)[/quote]
HAAAAAAA!!!
coming from YOU!
oh man, thanks for the lols…
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thank you tim, for keeping it real.[/quote]
wow.
i was joking, but ok…
PS what does that mean “coming from me”? how do you know who i am? i dont even recognize your name/avatar, let alone know anything about you
have we met or something? im confused
RE: selling parts from your wife’s bike.
I totally do that, or sometimes put them on my bikes. I have also sold her bikes without asking, which is always kind of awkward.
RE: giving up fixed entirely
I went a few months without a fixed gear and missed it. I have gone through phases where I rode geared way more because of the nature of my commute or something, but I don’t think I’d ever give it up completely.
I have a VERY nice road bike that if I’m racing I’ll always use. I even race messenger races on it, even though my look pedals on there are the biggest pain in the ass on the planet…
but my soma rush is probably the most fun/comfortable bike I have ever ridden and if I’m just hitting up bars or hanging with friends that will always be the bike that I take. ALWAYS. That feeling of not thinking and just riding around for pleasure cannot really be had on anything else other than a single speed bike. Your brain is literally 100% focused on the road and scenery around you. It’s epic.
You don’t feel the flow on a road bike. You feel it on a fixed gear. You also feel it running, playing piano (for me) and hiking.
i can say i feel a little more control on a fixed gear. whether or not that’s the case, the feeling is there, just slightly more. the difference between grabbing a brake lever when bombing down a hill and putting pressure on a brake and pushing back on the pedals is really just feel, to me, but it feels slightly better to be able to kick back on my legs. it’s partially also just being used to riding fixed, i’m sure.
I agree. I was wreckless on My singlespeed in polo arter flipping the hub.
I prefer freewheels for city riding, in order to corner better and ride through narrow places without worrying about striking my pedal on the curb. Two well-adjusted brakes stop better than any fixed gear could.
i know this might sound really dumb… but… are their free wheel single speeds/fixies?