Hip Hop Skid Bikes / Hipster Sleds / HHSB

My understanding of riding up anything on a free wheel bike, is that most people change down to the easiest gear and pedal like crazy sitting down, not traveling very far, then they get tired and stand up. There is no chance to free wheel up hill. So you might as well be fixed because the freewheel is constantly engaged.

exactly to my point of view.
and if we're going back to the first years of the tour de france, those guys rode up 400km with their fixed bikes, up and down.

for me it's a bit like that not the best bike or the easiest gear ratio wins, it's the human on the bike, the power, the legs.

but at the end i don't care, there's space for everything