Having done a lot of riding on fixed gears (on my Quickbeam, among other bikes) up to and including double centuries and PBP, I can say that a fixie or SS bike is not "emasculated." It's harder to do those events on a bike that doesn't shift and doesn't coast, and it's certainly not "emasculating" to ride one.
I enjoy both types of bikes (fixed and "gearly"), and I prefer to see a fixie as a bike distilled to its essence and stripped of everything unrelated to the simple task of pedaling and moving forward. My two cents' worth. --Eric [email protected] www.campyonly.com www.wheelsnorth.org Blog: http://campyonlyguy.blogspot.com Twitter: @campyonlyguy On Nov 23, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Ron Mc <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, I think you did a great job of answering your own question, with the > final business answer plugged in by Bill. For me it was always Why QB/SO? > Of course I have 8-degree grades to get to my house. Kind of an aside, but > it always makes me sizzle when I see a once fine steel road bike emasculated > to a single (though always with nice paint) sitting in the obscure corner of > a bike shop. > > On Friday, November 22, 2013 10:27:57 PM UTC-6, Bill Lindsay wrote: > another layer of economics is that they have to pay for a lot of frames at > once. whenever they have a load of betty foys or hillbornes coming in they > have to lay out like $30k. perhaps the cumulative demand for them cant > justify that. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
