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@bigbadvoodoodave
I ride in london, mostly on my commute to work, Ive used geared mountain bikes geared racers, a ss hybrid and now a ss road bike.
Gears piss me off, it takes forever to set them up properly so they don't slip, so they use every cog, so they change smoothly and quickly.
The final straw for me was when I was about set off from some lights, stood on the pedals and the chain slipped and I ended up hitting my knee on the handle bars, ( there were many other similar incidences with this bike ) and me rolling on the floor clutching my knee swearing a lot. ss doesn't slip, there's no faffing with gear set up, and fixed scares the living crap out of me right now.