The thread last week about path racers started me thinking about fixed gear bikes for non-track oriented riding. Up until about ten years ago fixed gear bikes in general were for the track or trainers, except for those "crazy people that are tearing their knees to shreds" as they used to be referred to regularly. As we've seen the last few years they're the coolest hippest thing again (classic content on the way) and all kinds of non-trackies and non-crazy people are riding them. Everybody say's it's to improve the spin, breathing, and bike handling. . . I ride one because I don't live on Seattle's Capitol Hill anymore and they're fun.
(Classic content follows) If fixed bikes we're so popular in the form of path racers into the 60's why did their popularity go away? Was it the invent of the reliable rear deraileur? Boredom with things "old hat?" or were people's knees exploding constantly? I wasn't around for the death of the path racer, but I was around for when only "crazy people" rode them on the road. enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives SB, CA
PS: For those humor impaired folks on the list replace the term
"crazy" with the term "trend setter."
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