For the last two days, I took the bolt out for a ride. Words can't explain how wonderfully this bike rides - there is a smoothness about my fixed gear that I cannot get from my road bike.

Yesterday I pulled off a pretty savage ride :



Long story short, I opted to jam home after a 60 mile recovery ride. Tired of going slowly for 60 miles, I had to book it, and I did.

Long version in case anyone is interested :

The thing that made this ride unique was I was racing up guadalupe (about 450 feet of climb over 1.5 miles, nothing big) against this kid on a supersix evo who was furiously trying to pass me. We started the ascent at the same time, coincidentally. We kept passing each other and at the very end, he made one last minute attempt to come up past me. I looked at his front chainring and saw him in the 34, and wished I had one too for this final push... I read the expression on his face, one of twisted fury and agony, and I just thought to myself... "must beat this guy with my 1 gear... must beat him". No matter how much pain there was I closed a 20 foot gap and came up past him. I looked back and he had his head down just churning away - he had run out of energy after the final sprint trying to pass me. As I reached the final apex, I could hear my spoke beads plinking on the rim and pedaled away. All in good fun - I could tell he truly did not want to lose to a fixed gear bike, especially one as dumb looking as mine with spoke beads. Great satisfaction was had. I beat my personal record up this hill by 40 seconds, which was set 4 days ago on my road bike. Sometimes, you just need to HTFU and pedal.