Originally Posted by dutret
You may find it more fun to control the rear wheel with a fixed gear drive train and perhaps it even feels more natural and smooth to you. Your agility however decreases due to the limits the drive train puts on you. This decrease in agility may never bother you on the road but if you tried mtbing on even a moderately technical trail this would become quickly apparent to you and THAT was my point.
Why does everyone insist on using MTB or BMX analogies to measure agility. It's an irrelevant comparison. Whether I agree with the point or not, the comparison is still irrelevant.
The word agility as applied to mountain and road riding has entirely different meanings. Until you can find an arugment not centered around a dirt analogy you've made no point.