Why ride s.s./ fixed? The other morning on my commute to work as I was pedaling along. I saw a pair of chipmunks playing and actually heard the water running in the stream that I cross. I have been riding s.s. rode bike for 3 years now and their are numerous examples of sounds and sights, I have missed for the first seventeen years my bike had 18 speeds. My attention was on wether or not I was in the right gear or not. s.s./fixed may not please everyone but riding a bicycle ought to be fun.