For me, the past ten years have been a cycle of
gears---> Yes,
gears ---> No.
I get tired of wasting time maintaining them on my commuter bikes, so I switch to single speeders.
Then, I get tired of mashing hills and not making great time per effort spent with the SS rigs, so
back to gears. My Single Speed mule needs a bottom bracket so I think Im going to get a new bracket
but have the bracket come attached to a geared bike
Ive resigned myself to terminal flipp-floppery, it's all good