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well, thats kind of the idea behind gears too.
Tha you always have a gear you can be pedalling in, instead of freewheeling and being slower.
I personally bought a geared road bike for whizzing about after only ever riding BMX and a little MTB.
I just could get on with it at all!
I found freewheeling on a road bike terrifying, especially with their lousy brakes.
I also found road ratio gears totally pointless.
Gears make sense on a mtb, to get up really steep bumpy hills.
But on a slick wheeled road bike with no rolling resistance, you can start up on the hightest of ratios.
Id seen track racing before on the telly, and realised the had some sort of "fixed" drivetrain as they had no brakes.
I went to a trusty old second hand bike shop and asked about it, and guess what the old geezer pulls out the backroom?
A old double sided malliard fixed wheel. He then sold to me for £10
It took me a while to find a frame to put it on,
but once I did it was great.