First Fixed Ride

I did my first fixed commute yesterday. It was great fun, the only downsides that I found were:

• Getting into toe clips is much more difficult on a fixie. I was looking like a proper spanner away from lots of lights. Any hints (other than "practise!")
  
• I ache like a sonofabitch. It seems to work lots of different muscles around my hips. That could just be me being overly tense due to the new bike though.
  
  

I'm hoping that this could actually be good for my ropey knee. I think being forced to stand up off the saddle to get going might actually be a good thing. Because you're using your bodyweight to move the pedals, it puts less strain on your knees than putting purely muscular load through them in more bent position. I also think that resisting the pedals to slow down may well engage a load of muscles that aren't usually used, a bit like a wobble board. Fingers crossed!