Originally Posted by
HandsomeRyan
The difference between the fixed/freewheel sides doesn't matter because you'll be having so much riding fixed you'll never flip the wheel back to the freewheel side anyway.
I put a freewheel on my fixed-gear commuter, flipped the wheel and never went back to fixed. Different strokes, I suppose.
I think that the larger freewheel idea has a lot to do with going downhill - on a fixed-gear a large cog is going to require a high cadence when going downhill but with a freewheel you can just coast.