Top 5 Reasons for SS/Fixed riding
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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!
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!
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Originally Posted by trekkie820
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:
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Originally Posted by trekkie820
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
1. Silent, serene ride
Originally Posted by trekkie820
2. Almost impossible to get caught up in the techno-dork game
Originally Posted by trekkie820
3. I feel like i am riding my first bike, when i was a four year old
Originally Posted by trekkie820
4. People looking at me and asking "why?"
Originally Posted by trekkie820
5. Low maintenence, no BS, no nonsnese, snappy, fast, fun, challenging, bad ass bragging rights hell of a wicked good time riding experience!
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Originally Posted by Schiek
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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 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.
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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?
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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!
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Originally Posted by OneTinSloth
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.
number of cables that i've snapped while using them as intended: too many to count.
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Originally Posted by trekkie820
Just thought i would try to become as self rightious as everyone else on this planet seems to be. Screw it.
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Originally Posted by 165-48:17
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.
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Originally Posted by William Karsten
You're now banned for 30 minutes for an cellophane clear attempt at ass kissing niceness that wasn't true at heart.
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Originally Posted by The Fixer
I ride fixed because I like to drink my coffee black.
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Sounds better. I like my coffee thick enough for a spoon to stand up on its own
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Originally Posted by 165-48:17
Oh yeah!? Well, so are you. So there...
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5 reasons
At age 62 I can't remember why I ride fixed gear.
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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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by MKRG
because you are spinning perfect circles at the perfect RPM and perfectly in harmony with the bike, the hill and the laws of physics.
hehe...
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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)