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@essexmirage
Have been lurking for a while thought a good time to say 'hi to all' only just got back into bikes at the beginning of the year after not having riden a bike for nearly 20 yrs, so it has been a steep learning curve for me, but started on a mountain bike, I won't embarrass myself further with the details, but moved to an inheritted Raleigh Record Spring (reynolds 501) so nice and light but tweaked it and changed it to a bit of a commuter, flat bars/bar ends, ahead stem, Schwalbe tyres etc, but found myself riding it in top gear nearly all the time now so...... after getting hooked on the Alleycatz NYC vids on the tube have tried a friends fixie and although I nearly killed myself and chucked various limbs of mine over the bars all in one go !, I have to say i'm hooked it feels so direct and just 'right' ...... so gonna look at going singlespeed on the Record first then try it fixed..... maybe if brave enough