Originally Posted by
Retro Grouch
Why not?
+1
Originally Posted by
Doane
Really.. why would one want a single speed or fixed gear bike? No insult intended, I just don't know enough about it.
The last single speed bike I had was a loooong time ago, when I was a kid, a Schwinn big tire single speed with integrated drum brake and I rode the heck out of it, but I remember being envious of those with three speed bikes!
As an ex girlfriend once told me after I convinced her to buy a single speed and ditch her multi-speed MTB, (I'm paraphrasing) "Oh. My. God. This is awesome! I don't have to think. It's so simple. When I want to go faster, I pedal faster. When I get to a hill, I just pedal harder. Now I don't have to worry about whether I'm in the right gear or not. And it's so light! It doesn't make all of that 'click-click-click-click' noise when it's not in the right gear..."
So, there is something to be said about the simplicity.
It's sort of like this:
vs this
