Originally Posted by
vinfix
.... But I had to try it, so I converted an old road bike- and I was hooked. About half my miles are on fixed gear. I did change over one of my bikes to single speed, but I don't like it as much except for casual rides. It feels like the worst of both worlds.
Similar story. I rode my UO-8 singe speed for several years after I trashed the dropout. At the coaxing of my veteran clubmates, I make a crude fix gear wheel and went for a ride. Forgot to pedal once and crashed hard. But I was hooked. Never went back. Always had both geared and fixed, but knew from that year on if I had to trim down to one bike, it would be fixed. My Peter Mooney was built with horizontal dropouts so it could be that one bike.
In recent years I have done so much fix gear riding despite having a sweet custom ti geared bike that I my lifetime mileage is now equal fixed and geared.
Ben