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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    as long as you dont go Fixed and brakeless you will be fine.

    SS is no worse than geared.

    Fixed with brake(s) is no worse than SS.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I'd be too bloody dangerous on a brakeless bike in many interesting ways :shock:
    I like going as fast as possible, well past the bit where your brain just hides behind a rock inside your head.
    I just know if I was riding brakeless, I'd forget. Until I needed to stop.

    Having said that, I did once ride down a stupidly big road hill with my brakes disconnected once, for a bet. I was about 14.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Having said that, I did once ride down a stupidly big road hill with my brakes disconnected once, for a bet. I was about 14.

    I was 4 and on my fixed Trike. did not stop and ran into the house.

    brakes are good.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    That sounds more painful than mine. I rode off the road, into someone's garden, and aimed for the shrubbery. I came away relatively unscathed, but i won the bet.
  • Alex
    Alex Posts: 2,086
    Anyway, back to sheepsteeth being a girlyman who couldn't ride a 2:1 up a proper climb because he's been cosseted by his derrailiurs.
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  • Penylope
    Penylope Posts: 320
    IMHO, the best (only) reason for a singlespeed is that it looks better 8)


    No clunky mechs hanging off the bike, big old gangly loop of chain or cables running from front to back, bleugh! :P

    My SS inbred looked lovely.



    I didn't like riding it cos it only had one gear but it looked loverly none the less.....
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  • snotty badger
    snotty badger Posts: 1,593
    Penylope wrote:
    IMHO, the best (only) reason for a singlespeed is that it looks better 8)


    No clunky mechs hanging off the bike, big old gangly loop of chain or cables running from front to back, bleugh! :P

    My SS inbred looked lovely.



    I didn't like riding it cos it only had one gear but it looked loverly none the less.....

    SS do look a hell of a lot nicer- I probably will make mine 9x1 at some point but it'll look a bit bleugh when I do!
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  • giantculler
    giantculler Posts: 92
    dont waste time trying to convert your bike to a SS. is better you arrange another one SS, or dont change the gear!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Alex wrote:
    Anyway, back to sheepsteeth being a girlyman who couldn't ride a 2:1 up a proper climb because he's been cosseted by his derrailiurs.
    I think that's got more to do with his being a, er "big" lad though, by his own admission.

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