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@Stevieboy
Hellooooo,
I'm new to this, great to see other darzet people on 'ere not just them swanky city hipsters.
I live in Poole, just built up my first fixed gear.
I've only been riding it for a couple of weeks and it's pretty good fun(read terrifying), starting, stopping and going round corners giving me a few problems but no crashes..... as yet.
There's a few hills near where I live so I've had to use a front brake otherwise I wouldn't have a hope in hell of stopping. I'm running 46x17 otherwise I can't get up the roads without zig zagging.
As for skidding... I've tried but my knees feel like they're going to explode, is this normal ?