Originally Posted by
magic-conch
Entirely situational? What a sack eater thing to say. "Entirely situational" can apply to any bike! You can't just put a fat blob on a road bike and say "Oh he's gonna be fast".
If you put two fat blobs in a race one on a geared bike and one on a fixed gear (assuming the fat blob knows how to properly shift) the fat blob with gears will win.