Originally Posted by
Inpd
Hi,
So I used to have an endurance road bike and would enjoy riding my single speed bike if I wanted to do a fast ride for an hour. My Endurance bike weighed 23 pounds and my single speed steel bike (a Motobecane Track) weighed in at 18.5 pounds. But I gifted the endurance bike to a kid.
I then built up my own steel bike from a frameset (Venturi Breezer) (see
Breezer Bikes - Bike Archive | 2013 | Venturi) and it weights in at around 19 pounds.
Since it has an aggressive road geometry (the TT of mine is 57.5 vs a ST of 54) and is a steel bike I find I don't ride my motobecane track at all.
So for those of you who have race geometry road bikes, why/when do you ride your single speed bike?
I have a fixed gear Gunnar and I ride it on group rides when we are on the east side of Austin and sometime for riding around town. That bike has road bike geometry and is comfortable to ride for 50-60 miles. I haven't ridden it on a century since they usually end up with some hills. I might do that next.
I have a steel track bike and I don't ride it on the road. It is too harsh to ride on rough chip and seal roads for any meaningful distance. I'll go ride it on the track in Frisco, but not that often since it's a 3 hour drive each way.