Originally Posted by
San Rensho
Fixed gear on the street is a bike that is in the wrong gear 90% of the time, that you can't go around corners fast because of pedal strikes. On the track, they are wonderful but I don't understand the obsession withy fixies other than the hipster cool vibe. Also, they are so 2008.
They're also terrible in a headwind.
The cool kids were doing it since 2003. I'm not cool so 2008 sounds about right 😆