My fixie(s) so far have featured only on-topic slowers, which means I NEED two of them.
I admit I like fixies best with all their brazeons, as some of mine have been returned to geared use for me and others.
Jeff Slotkin, usually at The Bicycle Shoppe, Charleston, SC
On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:09 PM, Steven Snider wrote:
> All the talk of fixed gear bikes on the road reminds me of a series
> of training articles written in the 1970's by Audrey McElmory (1969
> woman's world road champion). Audrey was a strong proponent of
> useing a fixed gear bike for off season training. She did however
> strongly recommend equiping the bike with a front brake. She said
> that if you didn't think you needed a brake, put one on anyway, then
> ride toward a brick wall at 20 MPH and stop within the last 100
> feet. If after this ypu still didn't think you needed the brake,
> repeat the experment without the brake. I think she was trying to
> remove the idiots from the gene pool.
>
> Yes, I ride a fixed gear on the road, but I have brakes on both
> wheels.
>
> Steven Snider
> Denver, Colorado
> steve.snider@comcast.net