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Old 10-16-11 | 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by dsh
Its worth remembering that, if your gear is reasonable for the climb, climbing on a fixed gear is considerably easier than climbing on a freewheel bike.

Geared bikes obviously have more bail-out gears, but your fixed drivetrain pulls your feet through any dead spots in your pedal stroke.

A fixed gear rider will be doing less work and fatiguing fewer muscles than a geared rider using the same ratio.
Fixed gears are cool, but not cool enough to defy basic physical laws. Perhaps you are confusing fixies with unicorns.
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