Originally Posted by Sinfield
If i'm on my fix or my mtn. bike i can ride with out hands for a long time. I can actually swing my bag around and pull crap out of it, or read a map if I need to. On my road bike however, I can barely ride without hands. The front end is extremely twitchy and I don't know if it has to do with the geometry, or if there's something fuxored in my headset.
I did see some dude riding his fix down a super steep main blvd near where I live where traffic goes about 45-55mph while taking his rain jacket out of his messenger bag and putting it on....on a brakeless fixie!
That's skill. Or stupidity.
I swing my bag around while trackstanding sometimes, takes some practice, but after spending so much time riding the same bike everyday, it just becomes second nature. Same with riding no handed, bunnyhopping a fixed, and everything else. Time and practice.