i did SS, fixed, now i'm really down with gears. don't get me wrong, my heart will always belong to fixed, but i can go places on my road bike that i can't go on my track bike. plus berkeley isn't very much fun on a track bike. it's like, okay i'm gonna go really fast now!!! oh...darn, here's a busy-ass intersection where the cross traffic doesn't stop. *resist*....*skid*....*resist* jesus, my knees...holy god this is annoying...
it's fun when everything goes your way...but berkeley is so small towny and everything is so compressed that, after riding in a city for so long, my sense of rhythm and how traffic flows is totally thrown off.