Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
I'd be interested if any bicycling enthusiasts would admit to actually "worrying" about shifting gears on a bicycle.
I sought professional help. I had developed an irrational fear of shifting mechanisms.
Originally Posted by
Tapeworm21
Eh.... I commute by single speed or an older steel cross bike. Fixed gear makes no sense to me, and kinda like it that way.
Fixed is just like geared except you don't coast.
Originally Posted by
mechanicalron
I am selling my track bikes beffore i get killed. I am getting to old for all that. You tend to go fast as all hell and hate red lights (no brakes) so you blaze through them at speed, eh! Now days I tend to have a coffee in one hand and take my time if I want.
Putting brakes on can remedy that.
Originally Posted by
CliftonGK1
You don't have to use a track bike for a fixed gear, though.
Not Track but Fixed
Single
And Track
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