Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Top 5 Reasons for SS/Fixed riding

Here you go, your chance to get a little gooey and hype up Single Speed/Fixed Gear riding!! I'll kick it off with mine:

1. Silent, serene ride

2. Almost impossible to get caught up in the techno-dork game

3. I feel like i am riding my first bike, when i was a four year old

4. People looking at me and asking "why?"

5. Low maintenence, no BS, no nonsnese, snappy, fast, fun, challenging, bad ass bragging rights hell of a wicked good time riding experience!

Here you go, your chance to get a little gooey and hype up Single Speed/Fixed Gear riding!! I'll kick it off with mine:


Cause I always wanted to be like Jack Casey

Here you go, your chance to get a little gooey and hype up Single Speed/Fixed Gear riding!! I'll kick it off with mine:

1. Silent, serene ride

I dunno about that. My wife's MTB is pretty silent. The freehub on her bike is dead silent. The only time it makes noise is the clicking sound of shifting.



2. Almost impossible to get caught up in the techno-dork game

That would be true if most of us were not techno dorks to start with. I suspect getting into SS/fixed for most means being able to buy new crap. That's not a good way to avoid the techno-dork game.



3. I feel like i am riding my first bike, when i was a four year old

I guess there's some merit to this. Not necessarily the four-year-old thing, but rather riding without even being aware the bike needs to be shifted. I find when the gear shifter isn't there, I don't miss it.



4. People looking at me and asking "why?"

Nobody ever really asked me this. Which is fine by me.



5. Low maintenence, no BS, no nonsnese, snappy, fast, fun, challenging, bad ass bragging rights hell of a wicked good time riding experience!

I go for the low maintenance angle myself. I got so fed up with derailer adjustments, one day I actually ripped the thing off after it got tweaked and never looked back. Simply found a good chainline, cropped the chain and rode it.

No. 11 - Deja Vu all over again.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=39880&highlight=reasons

No. 11 - Deja Vu all over again.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=39880&highlight=reasons

Just thought i would try to become as self rightious as everyone else on this planet seems to be. Screw it.

i started riding because i liked the idea of not having gears...and less crap for other people to screw with when i lock up.

i keep riding because it keeps me sharp and awake on the street. i'd rather trust my chain to stop me than a thin metal cable.

number of chains i've snapped while using them as intended: 0.
number of cables that i've snapped while using them as intended: too many to count.

but whatever, poop happens.

I actually have snapped a chain. It was on my geared bike too! Of course it was probably my own damn fault because it had over 3500 miles on it. That is too much, isn't it?

I just took the chain off of my Peugeot (making it a SS trail/fireroad bike). It had about 5000 miles on it. I cleaned it after every almost ride and lubed it frequently. It was insanely stretched. The sag (hold the chain at each end, 90 degrees from how it usually rides, that way the links stay somewhat horizontal) was so bad that it made an entire circle... sideways!

number of chains i've snapped while using them as intended: 0.
number of cables that i've snapped while using them as intended: too many to count.


That's funny. I've snapped several chains, but never a cable. Go figure.

Just thought i would try to become as self rightious as everyone else on this planet seems to be. Screw it.
Sorry man, you have to check in with at least three people from this sub-forum and get approval for "self-righteousness" before stating such. Same goes for being spontaneous. And screwing it. Please ban yourself for 15 minutes and receiving said ban approval in the manner prescribed above. Thank you and come again.

Thank you and come again.


You're now banned for 30 minutes for an cellophane clear attempt at ass kissing niceness that wasn't true at heart.

I ride fixed because I like to drink my coffee black.

You're now banned for 30 minutes for an cellophane clear attempt at ass kissing niceness that wasn't true at heart.
Oh yeah!? Well, so are you. So there...

Catfight!

I ride fixed because I like to drink my coffee black.No, I drink my coffee black because I ride fixed.

Sounds better. I like my coffee thick enough for a spoon to stand up on its own

Oh yeah!? Well, so are you. So there...
For the rudeness in that comment, subtract 10 minutes. For banning me, subtract 10. For posting while banned, add 45. For almost forcing me to reply while banned, add 12. For banning while not being a moderator: use the Pythagorean theorem and subtract your age from the final outcome. All on Greenwich mean time.

At age 62 I can't remember why I ride fixed gear.



fixedgearhead

I ride fix because I like it.

SS... because it makes me feel special. Or wait a minute, I mean it makes me feel like a god of bicycling. Or at least cool. And fit. And. And. Yea.

I like the way it makes me pace my strength and my energy. The whole conservation of energy thing and always trying to keep your momentum instead wasting it in the stop and go fashion that I tend to do on a non-fix. Knee buckling ascents and fluid high rpm descents...managing your legs knowing that in the downhills you are neither adding nor detracting from the potential energy of the hill as it converts seemlessly to kinetic energy because you are spinning perfect circles at the perfect RPM and perfectly in harmony with the bike, the hill and the laws of physics.

because you are spinning perfect circles at the perfect RPM and perfectly in harmony with the bike, the hill and the laws of physics.

Forget that!!! Riding fixed is CHEAP!!!!!

hehe...

randy

yeah. that too. I was just trying to say something that sounded cool.

Cheap AND easy, at least from a maintenece stance...and the wonder of pacing cars while spinning at 120-150 RPM(my gearing is really low on my SS)

I ride fixed because i have bad knees.

I ride because:

1) it keeps me in better shape than my geared bike. It is a little hilly around here so that helps with the workout
2) It is stupid proof - no adjustments
3) I like doing track stands at stop lights
4) Bike is super light without all the 'other' junk
5) Gears are soo overrated, haha.

SS... because it makes me feel special. Or wait a minute, I mean it makes me feel like a god of bicycling. Or at least cool. And fit. And. And. Yea.
Your post reminds me of Alan Alda.

Your post reminds me of Alan Alda.

Hawkeye rode a fixed gear?

BJ rode an old kronan sometimes...

BJ rode an old kronan sometimes...

I remember him riding that old motorcycle with Hawkeye and Fred