In general it has been hard work. It took me at least three weeks to get used to it, especially on the hills. On top of that my weekly mileage increased during that time by almost 50%. So I have been cycling further and it has been harder work. But I believed that I would grow into it and soldiered on.
I’ve been riding 42/16 for ages, probably about two years and feel very comfortable with it. But when I first started riding fixed gear I used 42/17 and after about a year or so moved down a tooth on the cog. And now I’ve come to that point again. Why?
Even though I’m quite comfortable with [...]
Back in 2004 when I had just completed my first fixed gear conversion my father asked if that was the one that I had assembled. Assembled I thought, how dare he. This was a project that I had overseen. I had built this bike. I had created it. It wasn’t simply a collection of parts from IKEA that I had bodged together with a free allen key.
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