Because it is enjoyable.

I stage a little fall ride every year and every time I have ridden a fixed gear...there have always been people who questioned if I could ride that distance on only one gear.

It's not a particularly challenging route unless you consider the wind that never stops blowing here and I usually pull for most of the way.

One older fellow showed up last year an a carbon Roubaix that weighed all of 20 pounds and and when the weather went right sideways I fell back to give him a pull for 20-30 km as he was not having a good time.

I was riding my Kuwahara with two loaded paniers as I tend to carry a lot of extras in the way of tools, first aid supplies, extra water and was probably riding 40 - 45 pounds of fixed gear bike.



I am also used to people telling me that "sure...that bike (my road bike) is fast but you are never gonna make it up those hills.

I just tell them to stay on the right so I can pass them.