Originally Posted by
hairnet
Well I'm not asking about racing. More than half the fixie riders I see don't do fast group rides or anything of the sort but they run high gears and pedal real slow. This is what I'm curious about. They obviously suck at pushing a high gear but there's some social force that keeps them from using their noodle and gearing down.
I do have a smaller cog on the other side of my wheel for when I want to take my fixed gear on a real fast paced ride. If you're a real fit rider and can haul ass then more power to you with the higher gears. But it still seems like a PITA for normal street riding.
That's exactly. For a month this summer I had a 52x15 set up on my fixed gear road bike. I had an idea that I'd enter the local TT series in true Merckx style. Never did, and riding around with that monster gear was a real ***** from stop sign to stop sign. (Although it did really fly out on the open road!)