Originally Posted by
thaetviking
The fixie is not going to happen. I own a mountain bike and I am currently building a rode bike. I did get a fixie workout last week when it was below O F and I could not shift either derailleur.
Just for clarification that would be a single speed not a fixed gear. With a fixie you have no free-wheel so you cannot stop and coast thus there cannot be hesitation at top and bottom of pedal strokes because since the wheel is spinning so are the cranks.
Another thing that simulates this
can be spin class bikes. Many of them use a very large flywheel fixed to the cranks so if you turn the resistance all the way down they will behave somewhat like a fixed gear. So that would be an option as well.