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Singlespeed & Fixed Gear "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!"-- Henri Desgrange (31 January 1865 - 16 August 1940)

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Old 12-14-04 | 11:40 AM
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The best answers won't be "Super Bike/Techie" because it's the pleasure, the fun of it that'll keep you riding fixed once you're hooked. I got my track bike two years ago. I rode my road bike three times in the following 6 months. Each time I found myself bored and wishing I was on my pista. Finally sold the road bike.
You know how your thighs burn if you stand for too long on a road bike? Won't happen on a fixie. Your legs will become stronger and you'll find yourself climbing faster than you did with gears—up to a certain grade.
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Old 12-14-04 | 07:35 PM
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There should be a fixed mentos commercial, I'm trying out for the part when it happens.
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Old 12-15-04 | 01:59 AM
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Bikes: 1969 Carlton Continental 531 / Nervex, 1987 Atala Aelle, 1989 Scapin Atec, 1990 Faggin Aelle, 2012 Planet-X Kaffenback, 2012 Bob Jackson Olympus 631, 2012 One-One Scandal MTB

Originally Posted by The Fixer
chicks dig it....
- Chicks won't dig it if your ugly, you're just gonna looka fool. Or maybe a punchbag of remarks for men that did
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Old 12-15-04 | 02:05 AM
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Someone told me it would make me popular and that chicks dig guys who are fixed.

Hey! You heard that too?
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