Originally Posted by riderx
Only if the wheel wasn't built properly. I constantly bomb stuff on my fully rigid SS MTB that is far worse than any urban environment ever dishes out and my wheels rarerly need to be trued.
unless you're riding your SS MTB out on the trails 150 miles a week, you're comparing apples to oranges.
Originally Posted by riderx
The fixed gets thrashed on the streets, bunny-hopped, jumped and even taken on the trails sometimes and it holds up just as well.
*shrug*
maybe you ride better quality wheels than he does. maybe he weighs more than you do. maybe he's more meticulous about keeping his wheels in true than you are.
or maybe you're exactly the same weight on exactly the same bikes in exactly the same environment with exactly the same amount of anal retentiveness, in which case yeh, your comparison is valid.