Rohloff_Brompton_Rider
Formerly just_fixed
not true, i ride a fixie with flat pedals (but i have a rear brake), need a break from pedaling, take feet off the pedals. i get upto +40mph and feel totally in control, just as tho i'm on my geared bike.
Q: Fixie's... Explain???
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not true, i ride a fixie with flat pedals (but i have a rear brake), need a break from pedaling, take feet off the pedals. i get upto +40mph and feel totally in control, just as tho i'm on my geared bike.
smokeysmoo
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
Whatever the correct term, one of the blokes on today's ride was riding one and my god, he flew! The naughty buggers leading the ride took us down a wonderfully steep and long hill. They went too fast to be able to hear the names he was calling them. 
brockers
Senior Member
- Location
- hollowed out volcano
Bluddycreepingamericanismscampyetc
I'm not sure when the chosen term for a fixie became such an issue, in jest or otherwise.
As the father of football-playing boys, I listen every season to 'knowledgeable' parents lamenting the use of the 'americanism' soccer.
The word soccer is no more American than I am. It's provenance is 100% English, but that is of no matter. I used it as a child as did most of my peers. I still use it. I don't know why it has recently had such bad press.
Similarly, the provenance and use of the word fixie are of no import. I can be American, Albanian or Finnish for all I care. It's just a word - and rather a nice one (like soccer). Is the bad press because we suspect that the term was coined by people who might be more interested in fashion than cycling?
I no longer listen to a wireless.
I drive an estate car, not a shooting brake.
I have a duvet these days, not a continental quilt.
I call my fixed-gear bicycle all sorts of things, but 'fix' or 'fixie' trip most easily off the tongue.
It is a fixed-gear bicycle; it may also be a fixed-wheel bicycle; to me it it usually a fixie or a fix.
As the father of football-playing boys, I listen every season to 'knowledgeable' parents lamenting the use of the 'americanism' soccer.
The word soccer is no more American than I am. It's provenance is 100% English, but that is of no matter. I used it as a child as did most of my peers. I still use it. I don't know why it has recently had such bad press.
Similarly, the provenance and use of the word fixie are of no import. I can be American, Albanian or Finnish for all I care. It's just a word - and rather a nice one (like soccer). Is the bad press because we suspect that the term was coined by people who might be more interested in fashion than cycling?
I no longer listen to a wireless.
I drive an estate car, not a shooting brake.
I have a duvet these days, not a continental quilt.
I call my fixed-gear bicycle all sorts of things, but 'fix' or 'fixie' trip most easily off the tongue.
It is a fixed-gear bicycle; it may also be a fixed-wheel bicycle; to me it it usually a fixie or a fix.
wheres_my_beard
Über Member
- Location
- Norwich
I refer to mine as the Awesomobile.
Or "my bike".
Or "my bike".
D
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I use my fixed for commuting and winter club rides, I have a Pearson Touché, I find it ideal for commuting, about a 13 mile round trip that's a little lumpy in places, but no serious hills.
Canrider
Guru
I believe, sir, you mean a station wagon.
brockers
Senior Member
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- hollowed out volcano
So do I. Thankfully I don't call it a comforter though like those blessed Americans! Sounds a bit infantile to me. Like 'pacifier' for dummy.
So do I. Not all of them nice.
To me the short and hard monosyllabic word 'fixed' engenders quasi brutal imagery of determined heros battling through muddy and icy northern European wastes. With goggles on. In black and white. A bit like a Rapha catalogue.
Whereas 'fixie' rhymes with pixie.
Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
- Location
- Manchester
Just try riding one for yourself and make your own mind up, else you will just get the geared riders telling you freewheels and gears were an improvement and riding fixed is pointless etc whilst on the other hand fixed riders will spend all day romanticising the fixed wheel bike and the experience it gives.
I ride both, both are good, I prefer fixed, just because I do...
I ride both, both are good, I prefer fixed, just because I do...
smokeysmoo
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
Pennine-Paul
Goth on a bike............
don't do it Shaun,can you imagine the mess your legs would end up in if the pedals hit you
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I rode down from Blackstone Edge to Littleborough with Shaun last week. I bombed on ahead and expected him to be a few minutes behind me so I stopped at the bottom of the hill to check my GPS to see what maximum speed I'd done (50 mph). I suddenly heard a thwacking noise and I looked up to see Shaun shooting past with his feet off the pedals and his toestraps slapping the road as his pedals shot round!
can you imagine the mess your legs would end up in if the pedals hit you
I think it is dodgy to ride like that. Instead of 5 points of contact with the bike, there are only 3, and cornering fast without being able to put weight down through the pedals can't be as safe.
Emergency braking without feet on pedals would scare me.
