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Throughout all its iterations, including many tyre swaps, a few stems before I found a thomson, I've kept a pretty consistent hill-based ratio on 49:18/19, and kept both brakes on for flexibility and downhill ease. Made the switch to freewheel for the first time last month after some knee pains, but definitely miss the feeling and of fixed, and am wary of wearing down the brake track on these rims if I carried on without the 'extra' brake fixed provides.