The daftest thing I have done so far is forget I was riding a fixie
Ouch

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( Peej, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:24, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

ouch

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:25, Reply)

if you ride a fixed wheel
I'm really sorry, but you deserve every fucking single thing you get. No, really.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:26, Reply)

I wanted to build one
I built it and rode it once. Its got a freewheel too, I may very well flip it over before I ride it again.
( Peej, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:27, Reply)

I would
people didn't die in the invention of freewheeling bicycles just for poncy twats in shoreditch to decide that riding an inferior machine made you cooler.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:29, Reply)

Thankfully I have never even been to Shoreditch
It's my father in laws fault. He said they are good for training your legs to hit a faster cadence and will improve your pedaling efficiency on a regular bike. I listened to him.
( Peej, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:31, Reply)

just use lower gears, you muppet ;)
plus, ride a single speed by all means. That gives you the above. Just don't turn the hub over like some kind of chopper.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:34, Reply)

I was about to post
"if you reverted to tyres made of solid wood, would you look anything other than a fuckwitted cunt? so why go back to a fixed hub? It's retarded"

so, yeah, backwards progress fives.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:32, Reply)

I was hoping someone might pull me up
for my outrageous assertion that people actually died to produce better bikes.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:34, Reply)

I bet someone did.
Plus, outrageous assertions that are flat out lies are still better than fixies. Fixies are basically worse than Hitler.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:35, Reply)

Fixies killed 7,000,000 jews
(cos they refused to buy a new bike)
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:37, Reply)

Bloody tightwads.

(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:37, Reply)

Indeed

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:38, Reply)

You're not ironic enough for a fixie

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:26, Reply)

My father in law used to race in the 80's
and he recommended I build one for training so I did. It's very different.
( Peej, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:28, Reply)

that's just about maintaining cadence.
try just using a cycle computer with a cadence function. It's a lot less silly.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 18 May 2011, 11:33, Reply)