Ouch! I ride SS! However I secretly envy fixed gear riders. I guess I am just not that adventurous anymore....

I ride fixed, I don't have two brakes on it so SS is out of the question right now. I also ride my 2x7 road bike.

Just ride... matters not what it is. (that's a 'no')

SS mountain-bikes are cool

:love:

Fixie hardtail mountain bikes are even cooler in the right environment.

I would think an impure fixie would be either rides other bikes or rides with a brake and possibly a flip flop hub? Or, most likely, by ease of use the keyboard has encouraged the poster to type extra words that aren't required, I find myself doing that quite often and being misunderstood, heh.

I stopped riding fixed all the time and now go single speed (with two brakes of course). I forgot how much fun coasting is, and what a nice reward for climbing a hill!

2nd this question.

and to answer the OP's question, no, I'm glad they are riding.

Pretending to pedal:

How about if you are going downhill, and you pedal slower than required to add power to the wheel? Is that pretend pedaling?

when i first got my ss conversion, i thought i was just as cool as those FG hipsters i see on rides. but once i got my fixie, i realized i was now much cooler than the other SS and conversion riders. and my kilo tt is much cooler than the other kilo tt's out there in LA.

i ride fixed and geared, and whenever riding i inspect any single speed rider to determine if they are running fixed or not, and if i catch them coasting i zoom past them with a scornful expression (and a brief mid-skid once in front of them if im on my fixie) and add them to my mental hate list.

hope that answers your question.

but why?

Watch out Jimmy "One Speed Single Speed" Smith Speed! All Star "255 Gear Inches" McGee is after you!

I'm 6'6", so I look down on darn near everybody.

I'm 7'3", so I get to make some joke about literally looking down on everyone on this forum right now. Did you seem me do it? I did.

Future FG riders :D


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if you consider yourself to be a pure fixie rider and actually think of your "self" in those terms i'm gonna go ahead and advise you to kill yourself because you are pathetic.

I think the OP meant "Purely a fixed-gear rider"instead of "pure fixie rider" and that has caused a lot of the hostilities directed toward the OP.

no i got what he said, i'm gonna still say that suicide would be the best option. if youre seriously defining your being on something as trivial as the manner in which a cog on a machine operates, a machine that you happen to sit on for maybe 30 minutes a day, you have a real personality deficiency.

If someone IRL said to me "im a fixed gear purist" i'd have to choke back a mixture of howling laughter and loathing induced vomit.

i look down at them and honor them at the same time

I look up at her.

Of course SS riders are to be looked down upon. The war ended sixty-something years ago, and they're still riding around wearing their little armbands? Please.

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If I answer the OP's question with a genuine reply, everyone will make fun of me, right?

OK.

Go ahead.

It doesn't matter.

I sometimes wonder if some people choose SS instead of fixed because they think riding fixed involves some special difficulties, or requires some special skills.

I say this because up until three years ago I had ridden all my life on geared and single speed bikes, and, not knowing what to expect, I approached my first fixed gear bike with a little anxiety.

On my first ride home from the bike shop, I played around a little in a quiet parking lot, getting to know my bike.
What a hoot.
I immediately figured out why they call a Steamroller a Steamroller.

Like a lot of people who ask me about coasting, I wondered if I would miss coasting.

I haven't.

Sometimes I think I coast, but then I realize I can't coast, and so I guess I didn't.

Frankly, now that I have ridden fixed, I can't imagine why a person would want to ride a SS.

Just because I can't imagine it, though, doesn't mean a good reason for riding a SS doesn't exist.

On the slight possibility that someone has not ridden a fixed because they think they might look like a newbie, or that it might require some skill they don't have, I say, try it, you'll like it, anyone can do it.

Anyway, I commute on my bikes, both fixed.

I have a good weather zip around town bike with skinny tires and no tread, and I have a built like a pickup truck fixed gear mountain bike with studded tires that gets me where I want to go no matter what.

I don't think I'll ride a geared bike, or a bike that freewheels, ever again in my life.

However, I don't look down on geared and SS riders.

I feel good that they have a bike and that they ride it.

What a bike looks like, how many gears it has, whether it coasts or not...these things don't matter.

Really, just ride.

How could it get any better than riding a bike, any bike.

I recently gave SS a go after bout 4 months of riding Fixed. It was ok, but Fixed just feels nicer.

When it comes to road riding, Fixed is great. I am running 18x15 now, I was worried it might be a little too high, but I feel it is perfect!

I am tempted to get a 18 speed road bike and sell my bike though. The new Japanese Giant FCR1 looks pretty!!! http://www.giant.co.jp/giant09/image...R0206027_m.jpg

Non-Sence Poppy Pants!!

I just wonder "why?" I've always been of the belief that if you're going to have a freewheel, you might as well just run gears. The reason I only have one gear is so that I can ride with a fixed cog.

The only kind i look down upon are the pseudo-hipster ss riders.

What a dumb question but I will go with it, no I don't. I have ss, fixed, and mtb's so I just like bikes in general.

Sorry to say, but riding fixed does not involve any skill at all. I don't see why it's so special to any other bike other than you can't coast.

I find myself "pretend pedaling" when I'm mountain biking on my SS MTB. It's not that I'm trying to convince anyone that I'm on a fixed gear, it's just that I forget that I can coast, for example when slowing down.

If an insecure SS road biker wanted to, he could continue pedaling while using the brake to slow down. That is what I meant by pretend pedaling. Basically, not coasting for creating the effect of fixed-gear riding.

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