Single gear bikes
Single gear bikes
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- rounce0
The reason alot of fixed riders ride without brakes is to make their fixie dick look bigger, and also because braking surfaces look shit on nice deep rims, and also single gear or flip flop hubs look alot nicer than cassettes; they're beautiful and symmetrical.
As for the whole get a geared bike thing. Why the fuck would I want to use a geared bike in mostly flat stop start London traffic? I'd only be using 1 or 2 gears ever! I get the point of gears for TTs and would rather ride a road TT with gears but for city traffic I'd rather trackstand at the lights than fuck around getting my foot out of the pedal clips to balance myself while I wait at some of the stupidly long red lights around central London.