Riding fixed gear is like driving without brake lights

that greatly increases your chances of being rear ended.

Is that how you teach people to look behind more often?

You know it is possible to be freewheeling and accelerating... Imagine the confusion on pedestrians faces then!

Riding fixed gear is like wearing pants without trousers.

Riding fixed gear is like having a bath with your socks on.

Man I ride SS everywhere because of my toe overlap (no one talks about this before you get into fixies!!) but it's super important to me that I keep my muscles 'supple' like fixie riders so I pedal all the time even when I don't need to, for example like when the road goes downhill slightly, or backwards when I'm stopped at traffic lights.

Which is to say the only dependable indicator of whether or not someone is slowing down is their distance relative to you from one moment to the next. Other behaviour can be an indicator but is hardly dependable. Other instances when this theory doesn't work: going downhill, ignoring signage and just coasting through the obstacle, the pro-tour peleton (they hardly pedal at all)

Riding SS is like drinking water from a puddle.

Drinking water from a puddle is like having a Powertap on the front wheel.

Riding fixed is putting milk on your cornflakes before you put them in the bowl.

When I was rear ended I was stationary with one foot on the floor, clearly from the OP I was giving out the wrong signals.

Your problem was not having a rear like Corny

Riding fixed is like putting a fresh sheet on your bed after you've made it.

Riding fixed is putting milk on your cornflakes before you put them in the bowl.

That's called the 'doing it right' method.

The OP has been smoking too much marijuana... leave your bedsit and check the alternative truth forum later...

Driving clutchless is a bit like riding without brake lights

If you're staring at a cyclists feet coasting as an indicator for them slowing down, you're gonna have a bad time.

When I was rear ended I was stationary with one foot on the floor, clearly from the OP I was giving out the wrong signals.

Yeah, but which pocket your hankie was in?

From a pedestrian point of view I'd agree.

I used to always confuse peds by pedalling (to what to them seemed like) furiously then stopping an inch away from them at a crossing.

I notice that they are slowing down when I haven't slowed down and they get closer
sometimes I manage this without even 'thinking'

Riding fixed gear is like ejaculating unicorns while drinking the sweet, spiced tears of baby kittens in zero-G.

Wait, am I in the right thread?
Hang on - are you ejaculating unicorns, or are the unicorns ejaculating?

Hang on - are you ejaculating unicorns, or are the unicorns ejaculating?

BOTH. That's how awesome it is.

Riding fixed gear is like wearing pants without trousers.

Murican commando?

From a pedestrian point of view I'd agree.

I used to always confuse peds by pedalling (to what to them seemed like) furiously then stopping an inch away from them at a crossing.

For which you would deserve a good fucking slap

Not sure which way I think on this one but I do have a story you can take either way.

About ten years ago I had a job in Shepherds Bush and cycled there every day from Clapton on my route was Hemingford Road Islington in those days it had mega speed humps but this did not seem to tame the motorists who still seemed to think they were faster than me so needed to overtake me usually at the pinch points. After a while I learnt you could tempt vehicles into chasing you down the road which was kind of stupid because they would hit the humps at over 20 miles an hour, the crunch behind you was satisfying though on on occasion the resulting oil slick on the road caused me some problems the next day.

I found the best bike to do this tempting was a fixing as you had to keep pedaling over the hump.

Zebs

I can see where he's coming from but I cant say i've ever looked at a cyclists pedals whilst driving.

Riding fixed is like having gears in your legs

For which you would deserve a good fucking slap

I just mean I was riding normally but to a ped it would look like I was pedalling furiously.

So you were riding a polo bike?