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I'm a student doing a product design course, and I've managed to blag my way into doing my final project on fixed gear/track bikes.

Answers to the following questions would help me with my project a great deal.

Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?
Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none?
Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)

• fixed
  
• free
  
• fixed/free flip-flop
  
• dingle cog
  
• other (please specify)
  Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?
  Q5: If a baker's dozen is 13, can i call a 3-day weekend a baker's weekend?
  
  

Thanks very very much from the bottom of my heart to everyone who answers these questions for me!

*I don't include riding fixed-gear in this questionnaire, even though this technically counts as a braking mechanism.

I'm a student doing a product design course, and I've managed to blag my way into doing my final project on fixed gear/track bikes.

Answers to the following questions would help me with my project a great deal.

Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?
Easy to use, maintain. Fun to ride. I enjoy the 'customisation/individuality' side too - fun to build
Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none?
No
Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)

• fixed
  
• free
  
• fixed/free flip-flop
  
• dingle cog
  
• other (please specify)
  Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes? Bellends being influenced by others and being too worried about being part of a developing scene - just fucking ride your bike and enjoy it!
  Q5: If a baker's dozen is 13, can i call a 3-day weekend a baker's weekend? Racist
  
  

Thanks very very much from the bottom of my heart to everyone who answers these questions for me!

*I don't include riding fixed-gear in this questionnaire, even though this technically counts as a braking mechanism.

Hope these help :-)

ok!
Q1. Speed, aesthetics, speed, mechanical simplicity, speed and masochism. Traffic jams.
Q2. Front.
Q3. Currently Fixed/Free, soon a Fixed/Fixed.
Q4. Some snobbery, price and bad drivers of any vehicle.
Q5. Only if you're factoring in the extra day because you know you'll miss one through a vicious hangover.

Edit: I didn't realise how much I love cars. Traffic jams are the most fun places to play. Got to be nasty, swift and attentive for them it's awesome fun. Bad drivers are what I originally meant by putting cars in the dislikes, I guess.

Where are you studying?

Q1. Smoothness. Aesthetics. Performance.
Q2. Front
Q3. Flip/flop
Q4. Elitists
Q5. Deffinitely not.

Er, I'm studying Product Design in the School of Environment and Technology.

ok!
Q1. Speed, aesthetics, speed, mechanical simplicity, speed and masochism.
Q2. Front.
Q3. Currently Fixed/Free, soon a Fixed/Fixed.
Q4. Some snobbery, price and cars.
Q5. Only if you're factoring in the extra day because you know you'll miss one through a vicious hangover.

+1 on everything 'cept the cars

Q1: I like a bit of a challenge and I'm looking forward to a TT season on fixed. Fixed spotting around town.
Q2: Both for now.
Q3: Fixed/Free
Q4: Not having the joy of upshifting on a high tailwind. Knowing that I can't climb every hill that I can see out my front door.
Q5: Candlestick makers weekend.

I'm a student doing a product design course, and I've managed to blag my way into doing my final project on fixed gear/track bikes.

Answers to the following questions would help me with my project a great deal.

Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?

aesthetically they please me & I like to spin

Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none?

brakeless or sometimes a front

Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)

fixed

Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?

**hills **

Q5: If a baker's dozen is 13, can i call a 3-day weekend a baker's weekend?

**not if you don't want people to think you are a girlyman **

Thanks very very much from the bottom of my heart to everyone who answers these questions for me!

*I don't include riding fixed-gear in this questionnaire, even though this technically counts as a braking mechanism.

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Sorry, in Brighton

Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?

• Customisation. Simplicity. Climbing
  
  

Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none?

• Front, Front
  
  

Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)

• Fixed, Fixed/Free
  
  

Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?

• Addictiveness/Expense
  
  

Q5:

• WTF!
  

Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?
I don't think i tried hard enough as a kid to get into a scene and be part of the cultural zeitgeist, so I'm making up for it now as part of my midlife crisis. Plus even i can do fixing on them.
Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none?
Both till the weekend, then just front.
Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)

• fixed
  
• free
  
• fixed/free flip-flop <<<This one
  
• dingle cog
  
• other (please specify)
  Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes? steep downhills
  Q5: If a baker's dozen is 13, can i call a 3-day weekend a baker's weekend?
  You're a student so every day is the bloody weekend. Look - you're even getting other people to do your work for you. Bloody work-shy students. [Mumble, mutter]
  
  

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Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?
Speed, simplicity and style
Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none?
Front
Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)

• fixed
  
• fixed/free flip-flop
  Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?
  Snobbery
  Q5: If a baker's dozen is 13, can i call a 3-day weekend a baker's weekend?
  You can call it what the hell you like mate... this is the forum
  

Thanks to everyone who has helped out so far! Even to student-hating villa-ru. You're all amazing.

I'm a student doing a product design course, and I've managed to blag my way into doing my final project on fixed gear/track bikes.

Answers to the following questions would help me with my project a great deal.

Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes? **No maintenance, fun, fast, efficient, the challange, destroying commuters, being healthy. **
Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none? Front
Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)

• fixed
  
• free
  
• fixed/free flip-flop
  
• dingle cog
  
• other (please specify)
  Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes? Err
  Q5: If a baker's dozen is 13, can i call a 3-day weekend a baker's weekend?
  **No, it is a **Long Weekend (according to wikipedia)
  
  

Thanks very very much from the bottom of my heart to everyone who answers these questions for me!

*I don't include riding fixed-gear in this questionnaire, even though this technically counts as a braking mechanism.

Hope this helps

1.) Simplicity , easy to maintain , speed , a real buzz everytime from riding
2.) Front
3.) Fixed
4.) The hills but going down them
5.) No get back to work !!

1. It makes me fit like a wrastler
   
2. NoBrakes
   
3. Fixed
   
4. Grit in my chain
   
5. KTHNXBYE
   

Q1: trackstanding.. main reason why I got one. oh, and feels like i've got more control in traffic, so makes my commute more agreeable. And it's just that little bit more fun than normal riding
Q2: front
Q3: fixed
Q4: sums for figuring out chainline..
Q5: i'm on my last 4 day weekend :o(

Q1: Smoothest / most effective bicycle to ride in london. Love the aesthetic. Love the extra control you feel you have.
Q2: Front
Q3: Fixed
Q4: Going down steep hills, when something on the bike makes a noise (my left pedal atm).
Q5: ???

thanks again to everyone who has posted a response.

I'll be back on to check again tomorrow... i've got a new wheel coming in the post so it'll be after that shows up.

88!

Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes? More control, track stands, community
Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none? Front
Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)

• fixed X
  
• free
  
• fixed/free flip-flop
  
• dingle cog
  
• other (please specify)
  Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes? going up hills
  Q5: If a baker's dozen is 13, can i call a 3-day weekend a baker's weekend?
  

This thread needs a poll.

:
Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?
A lot of things, mainly that they don't have gears that break-down/make noises... but also that it's different from the norm...
Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none?
Front (although it's a bit ropey)
Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)
- fixed

• free
  **- fixed/free flip-flop **(the hub is a flipflop, but I don't have a free cog... I'll be getting a fixed/fixed hub in the next week or soo too)
  
• dingle cog
  
• other (please specify)
  Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?
  People with bikes nicer than mine... which is pretty much everybody.
  Q5: If a baker's dozen is 13, can i call a 3-day weekend a baker's weekend?
  No, you can only call a 3 day weekend in a month of sundays a bakers weekend.
  

Answers to the following questions would help me with my project a great deal.

Q1: What do you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?

**I like almost all bikes, and fixed bikes are just another way of enjoying bike riding. My other four bikes are all geared. It's a nicely different feeling when pedalling and owing to knee problems I also have my fixed ****geared ****low to prevent myself from shifting into gears that are too high. I'm also keen to learn a small number of tricks.
**
Q2: Do you have brakes*? front, rear, both or none?

Two rim brakes, front and rear. I often ride single speed, too.

Q3: What setup do you have on your rear hub? (mark all that apply)

- fixed/free flip-flop

Q4: What DON'T you like about fixed-gear/track bikes?

What's not to like? They're not suitable for everything but that's only to be expected. I don't go on long-distance rides with mine, for instance.

Q5: If a baker's dozen is 13, can i call a 3-day weekend a baker's weekend?

**Is this some cryptic question about the correct way of calculating gear inches? Answer at http://www.sheldonbrown.com/. Along with answers to every other question ever asked. Why do we have this forum, anyway?
**
*I don't include riding fixed-gear in this questionnaire, even though this technically counts as a braking mechanism.

Brakist

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Q1 -The Power transfer is instant on a fixed gear. Its frickin' awesome.
Q2 - Front
Q3 - Fixed
Q4 - I get pissed at how hard it can be to source parts! I WANT some Sugino 75's!
Q5 - Errrrr - Bakers Weekend it is........

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