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• Is fixed bad for your knees if you dont skid / ride high gear?

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• Is fixed bad for your knees if you dont skid / ride high gear?

  in General • 17 years, 5 months

  

  i dont know if dyslexic im but unxetas i always read as untexas

• Is fixed bad for your knees if you dont skid / ride high gear?

  in General • 17 years, 5 months

  

  thanks artful dodger

• Is fixed bad for your knees if you dont skid / ride high gear?

  in General • 17 years, 5 months

  

  Natureboy

  What do you mean pedals that have free float?
  Does this kind of pedal have a particular technical name?
  How do i ask for them in a store?

  Thanks

• Is fixed bad for your knees if you dont skid / ride high gear?

  in General • 17 years, 5 months

  

  How about the fact that when one climbs one needs to stand rather than sit on the bikes saddle, doesnt that put more strain on them knees?

• Is fixed bad for your knees if you dont skid / ride high gear?

  in General • 17 years, 5 months

  

  smiling buddha:

  what you write reads like a poem

• Is fixed bad for your knees if you dont skid / ride high gear?

  in General • 17 years, 5 months

  

  Thanks guys! I really want to buy a fixed - tried it first time & went crazy - so this is really exactly what i wanted to hear! (since i have knee problems of my own already)

• Is fixed bad for your knees if you dont skid / ride high gear?

  in General • 17 years, 5 months

  

  Is it impossible to avoid knee damage that is in excess of that on a geared bike that one does not overgear?
  There are some good links on the topic:

  http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed-knees.html
  http://messengerofdoom.wordpress.com/2007/07/04/knee-deep-fixed-wheel-riders-knee-problems/
  http://yamabushi.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/why-fixies-are-bad-for-your-knees/

  but am looking for more personal opinions as the conclusiosn from these posts are somewhat inconclusive.