Originally Posted by NYCpistarider
You blow by some fool on a carbon/titanium 6000 gear wonder bike going uphill on your fixed? Happened to me several times riding loops on my '77 steel lugged fixed in Prospect Park today. Gears are for wimps!
can I ask, why they are considered fools?...
and if gears are for wimps, shouldn't it be easier for them to go uphill? it seems like the fixed gear rider is the wimp because going uphill is easier on a fixed gear bike (with exception, of course).