Road Cycling Essentials
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Forces you to practise cycling at a wider range of cadences for one.
I think you'd all be surprised.
I find riding up hills (standard hills, we're not talking alpe d'huez here) much easier fixed, you just keep going, no struggling up or spinning away your knees.
Its a much cleaner and smooth ride, theres no latency between your legs and the bike,
Added to that get decent quality bits, and you have a bike that rides endlessly is easy to keep clean and maintain and is loads of fun to ride!
You should all give it a go ;]
I find riding up hills (standard hills, we're not talking alpe d'huez here) much easier fixed, you just keep going, no struggling up or spinning away your knees.
Its a much cleaner and smooth ride, theres no latency between your legs and the bike,
Added to that get decent quality bits, and you have a bike that rides endlessly is easy to keep clean and maintain and is loads of fun to ride!
You should all give it a go ;]
I fully intend to. I'm going to buy the bits for and build a decent ally bike next year, and then a fixie/singlespeed (with a flop flub hub) the following year. I reckon I can do it for £3-400.
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Fixies are great for flat commutes as they are more or less zero maintenance but the general consensus is they will do very little for your cycling fitness bar improving your pedaling technique.
yeah easily!
watch out for the slippery slope, i dont want to know how much I've spent on my gitane in total now..
Crappy office picture from a few weeks back, but its comfy as anything (now that I put the fizik arione back on it anyway..)
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Well credit where credit's due then. That must be tough.
That seems really well specced for the price, what's the catch?
And giving you large, powerful quads!
Not much use when your knees are shot. I've got powerful legs but all those years of mashing in high gears has given me really dodgy knees.
Well, yeah it is, but I can live with it, anything else? Any idea if the frame itself is any good?^ the frames ugly as ****
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Given the difference in price between this and for example the CAADX are Cannondale just making more money or is there genuinely a difference in the performance of the frames that would matter to me?
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I love sitting behind fixed gear bikes going down hills and watching those legs go into turbo never fails to amuse
I have one on my ever growing wish list.
lol
I dont think ive seen any fixies on the road, could be wrong though
That's the one where the joints between the tubes are pure sex, yeah?
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lol
I dont think ive seen any fixies on the road, could be wrong though
Fixies only appear when you have the perfect combination of flat roads and hipster twits, hence their proliferation in London.
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