WestMass

Now that I've built up a collection of multiple bicycles - I've found that it is so so so nice to switch from riding single speed for a few days to riding my geared bike. It is equally refreshing and fun to ride my single speed after riding my geared bike for a few days.

Anyone else get enjoyment out of this? It's kind of funny because whenever I switch bikes, I'm always like "MAN I feel SO much faster on my (geared bike / single speed) than when I was riding my (single speed / geared bike)!!"

CliftonGK1

My only geared rig is my MTB, so I *always* feel super fast after a couple days of riding dirt on a 26" wheel with 2.3" tires and then switching over to 32mm 700c on my singlespeed roadie.

CommuteCommando

I have a fixed gear track bike (full on no brakes-no freewheel). It is a blast. I take it to a local velodrome, and a local riverside bike trail. I almost never take it on the street, largely since most road riding in my area involves hills. It isn't the climbing that bothers me as much as becoming a runaway freight train on the downslopes.

fietsbob

IGH .. single vitesse simplicity, but more than one vitesse.

caloso

I put road tires and a fixed cog on one of my SSCX wheelsets for commuting. Nice mellow 70-ish gear inches is fine for commuting or a nice ride on country roads. Good stuff.

deeth82

I have a geared Franken-Muter (department store Schwinn Tourist I had lying around), and it's been nice to ride it during the summer, but once it cools off a bit more, I'll most likely be going back to my SS Schwinn Racer...I love the low-maintenance + tougher workout aspects of the SS. And yes, each time I switch off, I wonder to myself "Why haven't I been riding this bike more often??". It's an odd thing, but I suppose it's just the act of breaking the monotony (single-speed pun originally unintended), and eventually we'll all tire of one bike or the other; especially when we have more than one in our stable.

wolfchild

I have 2 fixed gear bikes and 1 singlespeed. Gave up gears few years ago. I live in rolling terrain, easy to get around with one gear.. About 90% of my yearly mileage is done fixed, favourite gear ratio is 46/16. During winter time I gear down to about 36/16.

droy45

I'm in very hilly terrain. Constant up and down. SS out of the question. I would like one for strictly city though.

tarwheel 

I converted one of my bikes to SS a few years ago. It was fun to ride and I enjoyed the change of pace. However, it was hard on my knees and I ended up putting gears back on that bike. Three months of riding SS just about destroyed my knees. It is very hilly where I ride and I found that I had to attack the hills riding my SS, which wasn't good for my knees when starting out cold.

One a related note, I have 4 different bikes that I commute on -- a touring bike, sport tourer, cross bike and racing. I commute most often on the sport tourer, but really enjoy the variety of riding different styles of bikes at different paces. It helps keep commuting from getting boring.

GeoKrpan

I rode nothing but SS for 3 years, and then I got a couple of new geared bikes and stopped riding SS.
A few months ago I was given an old, lugged Motobecane road bike which I single speeded. I now realize what a mistake it was to have stopped SSing. I'm so much more fit when I spend equal time riding SS and geared.

bigbenaugust 

When I switch back to my multi-speed, I always end up wanting my SS back in a day or two. And not just because the brakes on the multi need some love.

ThermionicScott 

I've noticed that I've been mashing bigger gears on the road bikes as of late -- probably need to ride the FG more to keep up my ability to spin.

guarachiguaro

I live in London and have a ss and a retro build rigid mountain bike. I ride them both but I have to say that the ss is so much more fun cos of the zippp factor in Londons clogged up streets. problem is that it rains a lot here and i have no mudguard eyes on the ss so that's when i take the rigid out (a brown stripe up ur bum is not cool or comfortable!). i can actually go faster on it than the ss (i only have a 42t on the ss for the zippp)but it just doesn't have that thing...

gyozadude

I'm in the same circumstance - geared bike one day, S/S the next. I'm slow on both bikes. Ravages of old age.

Rest_assured

I find i get lazy with gears and coasting. FG is great for fitness, any hill you tackle FG will feel like an absolute breeze on a geared bike the next day. Big ego booster!

RGNY

gears or no, i love them all. last week was my SSCX bike. waiting for a day w/ no rain in the forecast to break out the 2x10 roadie.