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  • Hi sterobe, I'm up late and in a relatively good mood, so I'll try and answer your question in a fairly polite, and informative manner, without automatically assuming your a troll, here to bait the fixed and single speed forum populace.
    Lent a friend of mine, my fixed, he rides geared roadbikes normally and his response was to say that riding it was great because the bike talks back to you.
    When you ride normally, freewheel, brakes, gears, you talk to the bike, you change gear, you brake, you turn. When you ride fixed, the bike talks back to you, the fact that your legs are used to not just raise your speed, but to slow it as well, means you have much more information than you normally would, the bike feeds back more info to you and you are aware of this, get used to it, and then when switching back to your geared/freewheel bike you find it feels unresponsive, you want that immediacy of information that you get from the fixed and you find that your spending more and more time on it.
    If that appeals to you come to one of the drinks on this forum or on of the polo nights and try someone's bike and ride fixed, then come back here flushed with interest and excitement, wanting to build up your own, or buy one from one of the members on here, if not keep on riding your geared bike, but in the end just keep riding.

    thanks for the informative and friendly response mate, will need to give it a go. i live in glasgow i'm afraid so wont be able to make it out for a drink.

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