I have yet to see any fixed gear riders on the road here as well, other than my if it isn't fixed it isn't kosher friend on his Hetchins, myself, or track racers out training. It is sort of like seeing people riding around in convertibles with the tops down on cold winter days. Though it defies logic, they seem to have an expression on their face like they know something that nobody else does. What, that are freezing their #%|! off?
Dennis Young
Hotaka, Japan
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>> I also have seen very little about use of fixed gears on the road
>> in France
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> I don't recall seeing any when I lived there.
> The area where I lived, about 50 km southwest of
> Paris was not fixed-gear friendly terrain.
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> It was high plateau, cut here and there by VERY
> steep river valleys. If you stayed on the
> plateau, fixed gear would be OK, thogh the wind
> was something to be dealt with. The deep narrow
> valleys, however would really be a drag on a
> fixer.
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> I believe that most of the more populous parts of
> France are like this, and the rest is mostly
> serious mountains.
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> Sheldon "Mal De Pays" Brown