Fixie or singlespeed.

[kaiser]

Singlespeed, the use of the z tels me you are too old already

Learn new skillz

There was me thinking he was being so "down with the kids".

Everything I know about the younger generation I learnt from Napoleon Dynamite. Skillz - as in "bow staff", said to be useful for impressing and attracting girls.

Back OT yes build one and go for the flip flop hub, recently on one had one for sale really cheap. And call it a fixed gear bike and you'll be sorted

 

[mtbfix]

FWIW a fixie will not make you any fitter though they can improve pedalling technique.

 

[one-eyed_jim]

FWIW a fixie will not make you any fitter though they can improve pedalling technique.

I reckon I get a better workout on a given ride if I fide fixed rather than freewheel. There's usually a point on a descent where you'll spin out a freewheel and stop pedalling. Fixed doesn't give you that option, and the imposed spinning certainly gets the heart rate up. That might not contribute to fitness (I don't know much about the science of exercise) but my impression is that it does.

 

[one-eyed_jim]

fixed gear is played . cyclocross is where its at now .

Cross is so 2002. Utility is the new 'cross.

 

[MJN]

FWIW a fixie will not make you any fitter though they can improve pedalling technique.

I reckon I get a better workout on a given ride if I fide fixed rather than freewheel. There's usually a point on a descent where you'll spin out a freewheel and stop pedalling. Fixed doesn't give you that option, and the imposed spinning certainly gets the heart rate up. That might not contribute to fitness (I don't know much about the science of exercise) but my impression is that it does.

In winter we always get someone turning up on fixed for the Sunday clubrun,don't usually see them after the first 5 miles,for general road riding they are a bit limited,but exellent for a TT machine.
I wonder where this myth came from that ss/fixed makes you fitter,rubbish,it does as has been mentioned,improve technique.
The only place I ride fixed is on the track and even that scares the c**p out of me :shock:

 

[tintin40]

Except Trimble riders, because they look like they're riding Raleigh Shoppers.

Not so much the Raleigh :shock:
No top tube is good :mrgreen:

 

[one-eyed_jim]

I wonder where this myth came from that ss/fixed makes you fitter,rubbish,

I guess because it feels like it makes you fitter - and stronger. It's always been my subjective impression that pushing harder up hills and spinning faster down them works like a kind of interval training that builds strength and suppleness to a greater extent than the same rides on geared freewheel bike.

Now I don't have any real proof that that's anything more than a subjective impression. Do you have any proof that it's just a myth?

it does as has been mentioned,improve technique.

In some ways a lot of time spent on riding fixed can be bad for technique. The old line goes that riding fixed teaches you to pedal circles, but it can be a shock to go back to a freewheel bike and realise how much you take for granted the momentum of the drivetrain pushing the legs through top dead centre.

 

[MJN]

I wonder where this myth came from that ss/fixed makes you fitter,rubbish,

I guess because it feels like it makes you fitter - and stronger. It's always been my subjective impression that pushing harder up hills and spinning faster down them works like a kind of interval training that builds strength and suppleness to a greater extent than the same rides on geared freewheel bike.

Now I don't have any real proof that that's anything more than a subjective impression. Do you have any proof that it's just a myth?

it does as has been mentioned,improve technique.

In some ways a lot of time spent on riding fixed can be bad for technique. The old line goes that riding fixed teaches you to pedal circles, but it can be a shock to go back to a freewheel bike and realise how much you take for granted the momentum of the drivetrain pushing the legs through top dead centre.

If you think of it as simulating an interval session then why not go out and do a proper interval session and actually use gears big enough to be of any use,just read a decent training manual for tips on how to train properly and as for creating bad technique I guess this could happen if you rode fixed a majority of the time but my experiance of it was just competing in the local Friday night track league with a TT or road race the next day and training on a geared bike the day before so no real opertunity to get too accustomed to it,in fact the hardest part of racing on fixed was remembering to keep pedaling whilst lunging for the finish line If you spin correctly though you don't push through top dead centre,you pull

 

[Tnega]

Am so embarrased. Was way drunk last nite.
Post removed.
Sorry.

 

[Tnega]

I am too old, the longer I strain my eyes to read this the longer it takes, the older I get.
I know a bit about knee wear, personally.
Fixie? go for it if your under 22 and built for it, or live in a canal boat on a frozen loch.
Gears may very well be maligned and grossly missunderstood, but, I reckon I need 6 or 7, just to get home from the pub.
6 or 7 pints that is