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  • Hello i am Shandy

    I have been commuting in London on a Condor geared bike since 1997.

    Have seen more and more nice fixed wheel bikes on the roads in the last year or two, including the bike in the work car park belonging to a proper road/track racing guy at work. He said "yeah, go fixed. good for fitness and you will njoi".

    Then our work opened up a work bicycle scheme for a while so you get it tax free. Unfortunately, they did it via wheelies.co.uk. Buying bikes online is shite and they didn't help much. I wanted a fixed and the only 1 they had in my size was the Trek T1. It got delivered with a free wheel cog on and i'm no bicycle maintainer so took it to local shop. They were not impressed with the hubs but managed to put the fixed cog on.

    Although not my first choice am happy to report after a week's commuting and wee ride last sunday that I love it.

    best bits are:
    the acceleration, so much faster
    makes me always have a go, no coasting
    riding on the right of the traffic (thanks to reading this forum in advance), so much quicker/safer
    legs feeling absolutely battered after the usual 100 miles in the last week
    forgetting to pedal and getting a twat from each pedal to remind me

    shit bits:
    not being able to trackstand and getting caught at lights doing an angry bull manuver with my free leg to get the pedals round
    nowt else

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