Any Fixed Gear riders???
02-11-06, 11:23 AM
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Oh yeah! I've been commuting, running errands, and exercising on my Pake for about three weeks now. At first it gave me sore knee caps. 
Standard remedy for that is to raise the saddle, but I was already at the seat post insertion limit. Instead of tweaking the bike I focused on making smooth, deliberate circles with my feet. Knee pain vanished. 
Big test was yesterday, when a front brought freezing 20 knot winds out of the north. I left the house, four miles south of the office, worried that either I or my knees would be d.o.a. Half an hour later, I arrived hale, hearty, and refreshed. Plenty of energy, no pain. I will enjoy the silence and efficiency of fixies forever more, and always wonder why I putzed around shifting and coasting for all those years. A fixie is the better bike and it will make you a better rider.
I know. The above lesson could have come from SS, although at least one account (https://sheldonbrown.com/fixed-knees.html) asserts that using the legs to slow down, as on a fixie, can be therapeutic.
Then there's the fact that the free hub on my hybrid was about ready to give it up after less than a year in the weather.
I could go on, but it's time to ride. Ciao!
Standard remedy for that is to raise the saddle, but I was already at the seat post insertion limit. Instead of tweaking the bike I focused on making smooth, deliberate circles with my feet. Knee pain vanished. Big test was yesterday, when a front brought freezing 20 knot winds out of the north. I left the house, four miles south of the office, worried that either I or my knees would be d.o.a. Half an hour later, I arrived hale, hearty, and refreshed. Plenty of energy, no pain. I will enjoy the silence and efficiency of fixies forever more, and always wonder why I putzed around shifting and coasting for all those years. A fixie is the better bike and it will make you a better rider.I know. The above lesson could have come from SS, although at least one account (https://sheldonbrown.com/fixed-knees.html) asserts that using the legs to slow down, as on a fixie, can be therapeutic.
Then there's the fact that the free hub on my hybrid was about ready to give it up after less than a year in the weather.
I could go on, but it's time to ride. Ciao!
02-11-06, 11:50 AM
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jeez--i dont know if there are any fixed gear riders in the singlespeed and fixed gear forum----i think you may need to dig deeper watson!
02-11-06, 11:51 AM
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ok, if you look at the post, it was made on February 27, 2003. it for some reason just got moved into this forum or pulled up to the top.. was there a singlespeed and fixed gear forum back then?
02-11-06, 11:55 AM
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Man, people don't know how to read dates, do they? Notice RainmanP's reply asks how long there even was a fixie/ss forum? Or how the link to FGG is from when it was a sub-site of a real-estate site?
And, no, I don't ride fixie. Brakeless freewheel all the way!!!
And, no, I don't ride fixie. Brakeless freewheel all the way!!!
02-11-06, 12:28 PM
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must have been that Dolan dude that found the old thread somehow and answered it. this feels like a sunken ghost ship that came in to port after years missing at sea
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02-11-06, 01:52 PM
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fixed gear is for suicidal morons.
