Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
You are wrong, of course, and thankfully so, because, if in fact you were correct ... well we'd all (except you) be screwed, wouldn't we. People have been keeping multi-gear bikes upright in blizzard conditions for decades. Riding fixed because of perceived improvement in bike handling flies in the face of all that success on 'normal' drivetrains. Riding fixed because the complexity and hassle of everything else is just too much is a little too much to take seriously.
When I was a kid, I would ride my 10 speed Huffy MTN Bike to school and back home daily regardless of weather conditions. I lived 2.5 miles from school. The first 1.5 miles was down hill on an aggressive gravel road, the last mile was a relatively straight state road that was kind of busy in the morning and afternoons. I never went down while the road conditions were bad, only when the pavement was hot and I would get to much speed where the gravel and the blacktop met.