On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:07:27PM -0400, frank theriault wrote: >> http://mondociclismo.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-bike-polo.html > > Fun shots. I see that they're on fixies. Is that so that they can ride > backwards?
They don't all ride fixies, but many do. Some ride single-speed freewheel bikes. I suspect that riding backwards isn't the primary reason they ride fixies - rather it gives them some amount of braking and control when both hands are busy doing other things. Thanks for your comments, and thanks to everyone else who commented. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
