My fixed gear can beat up your road bike
05-05-19, 04:17 PM
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Tim brought up wives, but I don't get the impression his wife cares what he rides.
05-05-19, 04:25 PM
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05-05-19, 09:49 PM
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05-06-19, 06:54 AM
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05-06-19, 07:03 AM
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05-06-19, 08:15 AM
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https://ridewithgps.com/routes/23235312?beta=false
After two days you would be sobbing and needing a shuttle. In fact, I conquer climbs that you are too frightened to even consider, much less attempt without gear, and I do it in all sorts of conditions becaue, unlike you, I am not a creampuff Fashionista Barbie with a chip on his shoulder.
There is a BF member who is well familiar with my accomplishments because we rode part of the way across the country together. Not going to bother to play that card for something so trite as this cry-for-attention thread.
Now run along with your vente soy latte and vegan carrot muffin and get back to us when you've had your first.
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05-06-19, 09:34 AM
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Again, find a hill, and it's bye bye fixie!
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05-06-19, 10:00 AM
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Let's change gears for a moment.
(see what I did there?)
This thread isn't about the riders but the bikes and the superior aesthetic, efficiency and capability of a fixed gear bike over a geared bike is undeniable.
Many examples can be given. Look at this drivetrain...
Comparing a burly 1/8" fixed gear drivetrain with a road bike's anorexic 3/32" drivetrain is like comparing a big block Chevy with your younger sister's pollution controlled Kia. At the same time, the fixed gear drivetrain lacks flaccid appendages and Rube Goldberg actuators which make geared bikes inefficient, expensive and time consuming.
Ask your financial advisor which makes more sense - a $16 cog or a $60 cassette. Ask an engineer which makes more sense - a heavy and complex systems of pulleys, levers and cables or a light and durable fixed gear system. Ask you wife which drivetrain she would prefer you to maintain - a simple fixed gear which allows more time for the family or a complex drivetrain which keeps you in the garage all day. Don't you love your chidren enough to want to spend time with them?
And the fact that the pro racing industry frowns upon or outright bans fixed gear bikes from direct competition with geared bikes is telling. Their superior performance would instantly expose the geared bike for what it is - one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated on consumers. My guess is that Specialized and Trek would instantly cut their workforce by 75% the day after a fixed gear runs in a pro tour.
I could go on. Frames, comfort, weight, pleasing lines. It's obvious to anyone with eyes to see.
-Tim-
(see what I did there?)
This thread isn't about the riders but the bikes and the superior aesthetic, efficiency and capability of a fixed gear bike over a geared bike is undeniable.
Many examples can be given. Look at this drivetrain...
Comparing a burly 1/8" fixed gear drivetrain with a road bike's anorexic 3/32" drivetrain is like comparing a big block Chevy with your younger sister's pollution controlled Kia. At the same time, the fixed gear drivetrain lacks flaccid appendages and Rube Goldberg actuators which make geared bikes inefficient, expensive and time consuming.
Ask your financial advisor which makes more sense - a $16 cog or a $60 cassette. Ask an engineer which makes more sense - a heavy and complex systems of pulleys, levers and cables or a light and durable fixed gear system. Ask you wife which drivetrain she would prefer you to maintain - a simple fixed gear which allows more time for the family or a complex drivetrain which keeps you in the garage all day. Don't you love your chidren enough to want to spend time with them?
And the fact that the pro racing industry frowns upon or outright bans fixed gear bikes from direct competition with geared bikes is telling. Their superior performance would instantly expose the geared bike for what it is - one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated on consumers. My guess is that Specialized and Trek would instantly cut their workforce by 75% the day after a fixed gear runs in a pro tour.
I could go on. Frames, comfort, weight, pleasing lines. It's obvious to anyone with eyes to see.
-Tim-
After that embarrassing situation in the early TdF where the pros were being passed up the mountains by amateurs...on geared bikes.
Good rant, 'tho- maybe there's a 70t chainring in your future.
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05-06-19, 11:25 AM
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Lol. So, either the person filming was too dim to understand what was coming or they just decided to watch the kid barrel headlong in to the curb, anyway.
05-06-19, 02:40 PM
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I am not insecure that I need to quantify anything via Strava, etc., but I did do this in 2017.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/23235312?beta=false
After two days you would be sobbing and needing a shuttle. In fact, I conquer climbs that you are too frightened to even consider, much less attempt without gear, and I do it in all sorts of conditions becaue, unlike you, I am not a creampuff Fashionista Barbie with a chip on his shoulder.
There is a BF member who is well familiar with my accomplishments because we rode part of the way across the country together. Not going to bother to play that card for something so trite as this cry-for-attention thread.
Now run along with your vente soy latte and vegan carrot muffin and get back to us when you've had your first.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/23235312?beta=false
After two days you would be sobbing and needing a shuttle. In fact, I conquer climbs that you are too frightened to even consider, much less attempt without gear, and I do it in all sorts of conditions becaue, unlike you, I am not a creampuff Fashionista Barbie with a chip on his shoulder.
There is a BF member who is well familiar with my accomplishments because we rode part of the way across the country together. Not going to bother to play that card for something so trite as this cry-for-attention thread.
Now run along with your vente soy latte and vegan carrot muffin and get back to us when you've had your first.
I remember photos from that ride. How many days did you take?
-Tim-
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05-06-19, 03:14 PM
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In general, you are correct that there is nothing wrong with having a sense of fashion for caring about one's appearance.
With threads asking about how fashionable hi Vis disruptor camo is or claims that showing up to a group ride in fashionable clothing intimidates others, it is tough to say there is any sort of innate fashion sense going on.
If I weren't already on the ignore list that hurtful truth would probably put me there.
I usually would not post this sort of thing, but when in Rome... well, if ever there were a thread with a theme of being petty and shallow, this is it.
With threads asking about how fashionable hi Vis disruptor camo is or claims that showing up to a group ride in fashionable clothing intimidates others, it is tough to say there is any sort of innate fashion sense going on.
If I weren't already on the ignore list that hurtful truth would probably put me there.
I usually would not post this sort of thing, but when in Rome... well, if ever there were a thread with a theme of being petty and shallow, this is it.
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05-06-19, 05:08 PM
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05-06-19, 06:18 PM
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Maybe 10% for a quarter mile, lol. But I'm calling BS on the "little bit of training" nonsense. Here's (only) a 9% hill I did this weekend, and the top 10 KOM. First place guy is a professional, doing 400+ watts for 20 minutes, while averaging 10.5mph. And the 3rd place guy has won the Cycle to the Sun Haleakala race. Only 6 guys have averaged over 10mph. So if you can turn your 48x16 at 50rpm, that's 11.7mph average, and with a "little bit of training" you too can beat this! Nice try. Again, find a hill, and it's bye bye fixie!
Again, find a hill, and it's bye bye fixie!That is certainly achievable.
I never said such a gear was as fast but that it can be done without walking.
05-07-19, 05:55 AM
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There is a BF member who has done more than one Cycle Oregon on a SS or fixie. (Cannot remember which.) I actually rode with him for a bit one year. We were climbing up to the rim of Crater Lake from Ft. Klamath. IIRC, he also rode around the rim, which was a route option that day. Not an easy task. I'd love to see the OP do that. Up from Ft. Klamath, around the rim and then down to Prospect. Over 90 miles with almost 7,000' of climbing.
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05-07-19, 09:58 AM
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There is a BF member who has done more than one Cycle Oregon on a SS or fixie. (Cannot remember which.) I actually rode with him for a bit one year. We were climbing up to the rim of Crater Lake from Ft. Klamath. IIRC, he also rode around the rim, which was a route option that day. Not an easy task. I'd love to see the OP do that. Up from Ft. Klamath, around the rim and then down to Prospect. Over 90 miles with almost 7,000' of climbing.
I rode last year two DCs with a guy on fixed. Combined climbing of both ~37,000'. About 6 weeks apart.
I guess he won on points, but the bike beat him up pretty bad.
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05-07-19, 10:29 AM
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There are people who have done the Tour Divide on a single speed. I know someone who has done it. Yeah, she had to walk a few times up some steep, muddy hills but I don't think that hills on pavement are out of the question. That said, this thread is simply a troll trolling. If you have an interest in getting more people to try fixed gear/SS biking this is decidedly not the way to do it.
05-07-19, 12:56 PM
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