Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
Ha! I was going up a steepish country road climb yesterday using 34/34 and I thought to myself "I don't suppose I could even think of getting up this hill on a fixie"!

I can see well over a hundred riders when I'm out on a decent day but not one in a thousand is on a fixed wheel.
Although not common here, you do see the odd rider around here on fixed wheel. I know, and meet on the roads, two riders locally who always ride fixed wheel. It does help, greatly, that the Trent, Tame and Mease rivers have carved a largely flat terrain, although that's a bit of a double-edged sword when the wind gets up across the largely tree-less plain.

It's a different technique riding without a freewheel. The flywheel effect really helps at low cadence, so it's really surprising what you can climb, but you do have to ride it differently. Mechanically it's bullet proof too, so all you have to do is pedal. All the time.