Originally Posted by
biknbrian
I don't think you really need to pedal much on down hill single track, technique is 90% of your speed. It is most certainly the flats where you suffer somewhat.
You are missing the point. If you usually ride in flat areas, you can use a single gear ratio that is suitable for flat land riding. A singlespeed bike set up for climbing will suck on downhill and vice versa. I live and ride in a very hilly area, I use low gears going up, mid range gears on flats, and high gears going down. There is no way I could ride those trails as fast, or as efficiently with one gear. Thats just a fact.
Originally Posted by
biknbrian
Also almost everyone who rides SS has rode multi-gear bikes. Have you rode a SS mountain bike?
Did you take a poll to find that out? As I said before I spent years riding a singlespeed bmx bike on trails, I would never go back.