I'm a "mountain biker" but I've never set wheel on a Mountain. Quit trying to define people based on how they ride dammit. We're all just damn cyclists clogging up the car-trails

Funny how the word poser gets tossed around so much. Just like every FGG rider wants to look like they're on a pick-up, every roadie wants to be mistaken for a member of a euro peloton. However, both parties lack the radio or follow car to really fool anybody. Who knew that riding reeeeal fast for 10 miles to your buddies house to inhale mouthfuls of luscious marijuana smoke was the answer to the question sports medicine has been trying to answer for the last 50 years.

that tat is from parktools.com you dikchead.
and a geared road bike is more like a ferarri or something. an old fixed gear is like a classic musclecar, a new fixed gear is like a new mustang or something (wants to have real style but just doesn't).
now, a touring bike...that's like an SUV.

im a poser

Dude... stop with the talking.

Go ride your bike.

You've said enough for today.

i can't ride. i ran into someones back wheel and cut up my hand...it hurts to ride, besides i only ride a day a week or so. maybe two on an active week.

you just made my signature

Oh dood. Oh. Dood. Oh. Oh. Oh no.

Somewhat related to piwonka's injury.

Boy I need to stop lurking.

I need to start lurking, terrible threads like this one make me sad

Man, you missed out on grabbing my sig. Best sig ever!

You really have to stop it... laughing too hard makes my back hurt.

With 65 gear inches the only roadies you are dropping are either poseurs or serious guys who are probably just on recovery after a much longer and faster ride.

I have a few fixed gear bikes that spin 65 gear inches...I use them for touring, commuting, and on days when I feel like I need a rest from the 77 gear inches I am usually spinning on my road bike.

If you were to keep up, your legs would catch on fire from pedalling so fast and then your sister would be mad you burned up her favourite pair of pants.

I don't own an SUV with sealskin hubcaps but my touring bike is a 1955 Raleigh Lenton Sports fixed gear (factory original). It has a fixed/fixed hub and runs 66 and 75 gear inches.



I also have a few more geared bikes than I do fixed gear or ss bikes... I l;ove riding them all.

That's hot 65er. I love old Raleighs!

haha, i was making fun of m4bandit but he didn't realize it. i wouldn't crash into someons back wheel, i'd just ride around them, lol.

A week or so back someone claimed well-liked posts (to be fair: specifically individual threads with bike pics) would continue to be bumped up to the top of the list, letting the chaff fall where it may: I'd like to think this thread throws that idea on its head.

That's true.

I seem to have acquired a few of them... of the present herd of 14 bikes I have a pair of Phillip's Twenty 3 speed folders, a 1954 Raleigh Sports 3 speed road bike, the 1955 Lenton fixed gear, and a 1978 Superbe 3 speed.

This whole gears are for the weak must come from someone who has never climbed a 12 percent grade on a 42 pound, 3 speed cruiser... and lived to talk about it.

The lowest gear on my Superbe is 50 gear inches, it runs 66 in the middle, and a whopping 88.6 in third and I am looking to change out the rear cog for some hill friendly gearing.

The 1954 Raleigh is running a 56-99 gear inch range.

To be fair if youve got the cadence and shifting skill, a geared bike can be damn fast... but you haved to know what youre doing.

fixed gears are either sacrificing top speed or acceleration, tis math.

but oh i do love mah fix.

I too love my fixed gear bikes with a passion (I have 4 of them) but know that without a doubt that this old Raleigh Carlton Gran Sports (and it's the Raleigh I forgot to mention) will blow the freaking doors off my Peugeot fixed gear road bike which is already a very stiff and fast bike.

They are almost identical in weight.

Sometimes the wind howls and the grades get steep and lower gears can be a handy thing and sometimes the wind goes away and one can utilize the higher gear inches a geared bike possesses. Maybe your riding isn't limited to rising around the block and might actually involve some long distance riding where I also ride fixed.

The 40/52 chain rings and the 13-21 6 speed rear block is not something for the weak and I am aiming to spin this bike out at 120 rpm in it's 52:13 (105.5 gear inches) which will get the old girl up to and perhaps beyond 60 kmh / 37 mph in a flat sprint.

My old road bike (a touring model) didn't have a tall enough gear, was a little heavier, and not quite as stiff.

But fixed gears are also potentially more efficient, due to always straight chainline. If its flat, with no wind (or a constant wind and only ride in one direction), and no hills, the fixie wins. Once you start adding other variables to the equation (basically anything outside a velodrome), the geared bike becomes increasingly advantageous.

agreed, but even on the flats, the highest gearin on a roadie is usually around 44-13, thats 91 gear inches (was the raleigh afore i 'fixed' it). The avg fix runs about 65-75 gear inches. At full cadence on a flat, 91 gear inches will make you go hella fast.

depending of course on the specific bikes involved. id say at best a fixed vs a roadie on pure flats can keep up. and yeah, the roadie takes changing conditions way more energy effeciently. specially for a long ride. theres a lot to be said for keeping optimal cadence for a few hours, versus bouts of sprinting and resisting (hilly ride) for a few hours..

i'm pretty consistent with RPM ( I roll 100+rpm on rollers with 65 inches easy )

That is because rolling 65 gear inches at 100 rpm is relatively easy.