the trick to track is to pedal pedal pedal
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Are you riding the SS/FG in both modes? If yes, I suggest you only ride it fixed so your brain and body get used to the idea that when you are on that bike, you are riding fixed. I have never done a SS/FG bike. When I put a fix gear wheel on my SS, I never rode single speed again and every bike that I have set up fixed since that bike has only been a FG.

I went back to your first post. One year? Give it time. Ride this bike fixed this summer as much as you can, several thousand miles if you can. If you can get past this barrier, you may find you really love riding fixed and that it was totally worth doing.

Ben, a fix gear convert 40 years ago

Ok, I'm a sucker for a cool story. How do you know?

I suppose that bothering to post the question in this forum implies a lot higher priority than it really is in my life.
Exercise is just part of my health program.
Biking is just part of my exercise program.
Single gear riding is a small, actually optional part of my biking.
Single gear riding as fixed gear is just a whim.
I kind of like it but I don't see it ever becoming important to me.

What I need from biking is to log a lot of aerobic hours.
My neighborhood is so relentlessly hilly that a single gear ride is either a hard ride or round and round one 1/3 mile block after riding or walking one significant hill to get there/back.

This one time I flipped it to fixed and started pedaling and just never stopped. It's not that hard to do.

I guess if you're not attracted to the culture/style of fixed gear, there really is no benefit for you. If you're solely on a bike just for exercise, then get a multi-geared road or hybrid and log many miles.

What got me into fixed gear was watching the first MASH video when I was in high school. I loved the aesthetic of the bikes, the simplicity, the design, the music they played in the video. Coming from a skateboarding background, it just felt like the skateboarding equivalent of the biking scene (although BMX might be more of that). I thought skidding looked super fun. So I went out and bought a fixed gear, never looked back.

Although, 10+ years later, I no longer find skidding to be "cool" or even necessary. But I still prefer riding fixed over anything else.

Ha, I'm reminded of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw

There is a sublime beauty in fixed gear bikes.

Even apart from that, it is great exercise. I do between 12 and 17 miles three or four times/week on my fixed gear bike. It is pretty hilly here too. It has built a lot of strength which has helped my longer geared bike rides.

Agreed. It's excellent training. And unique which when mixed with varied riding can create an excellent sustainable lifestyle. And addiction lol.

I find great benefit to riding fixed completely apart from the culture and lifestyle. Actually I couldn't care less about the lifestyle.

15 miles on a fixed gear bike in under an hour is a better workout than riding a geared bike the same distance and it has made me a stronger road rider in the process.

I'm glad you are enjoying it and to each his own. Everyone is free to live their own life and I'm not trying to challenge you or anyone else. I just don't agree with the premise that there is no benefit or value to fixed gear apart from a lifestyle.

Does fixed inherently eliminate that kind of pop I sometimes get when I don't get an even enough arc of pressure on a pedal round, or not necessarily? Kind of like when you go from coasting to suddenly pedaling hard, but less than that.

Or would there be any problem in converting a SS with vertical dropouts and an eccentric bottom bracket, to see if I like fixed? That's how it came, but I don't have a flip flop hub.

Yes, it will almost surely eliminate it

Just buy a fixed wheel and put it on, no problem if you have the EBB.

thread ran its course and I'm not complaining about a highjack but you'd probably be better off to start a new one.

You just have to get in a rhythm with your pedaling and it shouldn't take long before it is second nature. Now, I have the opposite effect. When get on a free wheel or geared bike, that first time I stop pedaling and coast my brain has a quick "WTF!" moment and my body tenses up as if something is going wrong and I'm about to eat ****.

I guess the OP shouldnt ride with clipless pedals either

Sounds like you should/want to just ride a geared bike and forget the fixed gear bike. I like to ride fixed as much as I can for endurance base including long rides. 3-4 hours fixed is a lot more bang for the buck than geared unless hammering on the geared bike. I avoid the fixed bike if I want an easy recovery ride and I would have to ride hills or the wind is blowing 15+ mph. Often I just ride a trainer indoors if I want to control an easy recovery ride.

Is it still possible to hop over curbs on a fixed gear? The only way I know how to it is by keeping my pedals even, motionless, which you can't do, but Im guessing that's not required, just using upper body instead of legs?

Most minor of issues, just curious.