Originally Posted by
carleton
+1
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
Wow... that's "Simple?" ..I thought you were going to post pix of a VW beetle pre 1975 !
This would be my idea of simple in a car:
My first VW, a 1958, there was no gas gauge either.. there was a lever on the passenger side "firewall" that you had to reach over with your foot to flip it over to the "reserve" (a line from the tank lower down).. unless you had a passenger who could do it for you. ... that's "simplicity!"