You are reading a single comment by @M_V and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@M_V
Definitely still enjoy it.
About 50miles seems to be my max on a ride and I have wondered if moving to gears would be the way to increase that but I don’t think riding with a freewheel really makes any difference. I don’t really have a fixed and a singlespeed version of the same type of bike though so hard to know.
When I borrowed the Equilibrium last year I think I had some fantasy of dancing on the pedals up climbs followed by descending at speeds I’d never done before and they didn’t materialise, the climbs were just as hard and I ran out of gears on the descent anyway so ended up at the same kind of terminal velocity as if I had a ss freewheel.
I think there was something of a lack of achievement too. Do a hilly 50 mile ride fixed or a singlespeed mtb ride and you can really feel like you’ve achieved something (even though it’s probably something that those that can knock out 100 mile Fixed rides might not be so proud of) but do the same with gears and it’s like, well off course I managed that, I’ve done it fixed.