At 12:56 PM 01/04/2009 -0400, bikefll57@aol.com wrote:
>"Fixie" is undoubtedly a derivative of "fixed"; one definition of?which
means?castrated. I'll leave y'all to draw your own conlcusions.....?
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How I HATE the term "fixie"! I suppose "fixed" is okay, but I prefer "fixed wheel". That's what I learned originally over 50 years ago. It's the antonym of "freewheel". Even "fixed gear" is not entirely correct because it could just as easily mean a bike with a single speed freewheel.
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada