Hi Deacon,
One of my first full-scale bike tinkering projects about 8 years ago was
converting a 90’s Japanese steel road bike to fixed gear. I really enjoyed it
but it was a little too small for me, so I sold it after a few months. I have
another fixie project in my mind for the future and
I tend to agree with this, and will only add that, just perhaps, one
difference with riding a freewheel is that you become habituated -- ie, do
it without thinking -- to keeping your pedaling ahead of the drivetrain in
a way that you don't with a freewheel, which may -- "may" -- allow just
enough
Daniel, have you ridden fixed?
With abandon,
Patrick
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If you put continuous forward pressure on a freewheel drivetrain, there is NO
difference from putting continuous forward pressure on a fixed gear drivetrain.
The top of the chain is taut and the bottom is slack; there is simply no
"freewheel effect" or, for that matter, any difference at all
I'd like to know more about this. I know that the "flywheel" idea has been
around for, probably, a century and more, and so many people claim that
climbing is faster with a fixed drivetrain in a given gear than in the same
gear with a freewheel.
I can't say that my '03 errand Riv fixie (70")
Does your geared bike have a matching gear to a fixed? If so, the flywheel
effect should be notacible, though there are multiple levels of getting more
and more scientific to compare the two efforts. But if you ride them both on
the same day, two days in a row, alternating which one is first,
You develop both the physical and psychological ability to stand and torque
up long hills at low rpm; it took me a few years to get comfortabel with
this.
Much of it is simply resetting your mind; you have to hold back and pace
yourself, but I have surprised myself how relatively easy it is to
In which we explore how one gear is sustainable for long climbs and rides even
on fairly steep grades of 8-12%.
https://thegrid.ai/withabandon/anaerobic-power-aerobic-effort
With abandon,
Patrick
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