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@pascalo
first post here ... so hello everyone :)
I got a fillmore on SS and I love it.
The reason why I picked single speed is that I was scared of riding bikes for quite a while since I had 2 bad accidents in the past, both a result of standing in the pedals and the deraileur somehow not properly sticking to one gear ... hence a sudden shift of gravity and in the first one a good part of my skin scraped off on my shoulderblade, in the second instance some teeth knocked loose and 8 stitches to fix my chin.
Some 6 years later I decided address and overcome my fear, went to brixton cycles and picked single speed for the very reason that the chain is less likely to come off.