Joined: Jan 2009
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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
You're going to school in San Francisco? So is my daughter. She's at the Art Institute. Where are you?
I saw a lot of folks riding SS and FG bikes there and think they're crazy, especially those riding fixies without brakes. The hills there are breathtakingly steep and difficult. If you manage to ride up and down those hills on either type of bike, you'll be in excellent shape.
Everyone else, if you don't have any idea what hills are like in San Francisco, you might have trouble imagining them. The pictures don't depict them adequately!