flyingdutch said:yep. one gear, many speeds 😄
the cos the rear wheel is 'fixed' (ie no freewheeling so youre always pedalling) it legally is regarded as a brake, hence you see em with brakes on the front (plus 75% of your braking/stopping happens at the front regardless)
Basically think 'track' bike, but usually without the big thigh circumferences 🙄
No-one's really given you a proper definition:-
Short for "fixation". Sort of retrograde mechanical 'evolution'. Adhered to by people of a certain perverse disposition who struggle to prove they can get up anything as quick as people on 'fancier' bikes. Stick-in-the-mud types ride them. Also a certain backward type of weight weenie. ("No gears! 32.25% LIGHTER!"😉
It's a bike, the design of which was outmoded in the late 1890s by the invention of the freewheel and the bowden cable (or rod linkage) for brakes, and is persistently used by those who imagine themselves to have been a shoe-in for the role that Kevin Bacon played in that hideous film about bike couriers in San Francisco.
Or track riders who still haven't got the concept of 'gears' yet.
Or tightwads who have a fanatical aversion to spending any money on maintaining their bike whatsoever ("Hahahaha!! You had to pay for brakeblocks AND a chain, AND 9 cogs! AND gearcables! HA!"😉 These sort of people eventually turn into those dishevelled old guys you see tootling along on 50 year old bikes held together with baling twine, fencing wire and the knots on the multiple plastic bags that hold unidentifiable scavenged and found objects, and whose (never replaced) drivetrain is caked in 45 years of grease and muck, and whose tyres are held onto the rim with gaffer tape wrapping.
Eurch! The common folk! Quick, James! Ready the Merlin for a post-prandial dash to Mordialloc and back! We won't see that type on Beach Rd!
M "😄" H
