Originally Posted by
TMonk
Back on topic: As much as I like to downplay it, I think riding a FG for many miles does induce a little more fatigue than a freehub/freewheel bike, although that disparity gets minimized the fitter you get.
There is a good point here.
Fitness minimizes it but so does learning to cooperate with the bike rather than fight it. Over time riders get to know how to ride more efficiently, not waste a bunch of energy. Several years of riding and it is much easier for me, very natural feeling.
Sometimes roadies will act like it was some superhero thing to have ridden fixed gear and I want to say that it really isn't
that difficult. Heck, if I can do it...
-Tim-