Originally Posted by vrkelley
The other day I saw my first "fixie" enroute. The poor soul was so buff, but thie hills....man he was struggling just to do the mid-sized hills. I didn't see the point of straining knees like that.
For smaller hills (and that's all we have in Norman, OK), I actually find it easier to blast up them on my fixie than on any of my other bikes. Fixies carry you through things you might actually have to work towards on a freewheel.