An interesting looking machine, but it doesn't appear to have any gears!
Doesn't it actually have any, or am I missing something somewhere?
Well, it's got
one gear! It wouldn't work otherwise!
It's just a singlespeed bike. It's a pretty good all around gear, and single speed bikes are simple, quiet, smooth, and quite fast because there's not much going on.
It's reasonably flat where I live. There's definitely hills around here that I don't think I could get up, especially not at the moment because I stopped cycling a couple of years ago and I'm getting back into it now.
It's nice to ride without gears, less to think about, less noise, you just pedal. I like it. Hills are actually easier than you'd think, because you don't have the option to fanny about with changing gear, changing your mind, you just blast as fast as you can at the bottom of the hill and use your momentum, then stand up and grind it out if it's too steep to spin sitting down. A lot of the hills here seem to have a convenient down hill first
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