Perhaps someone can help me with a question that often ask myself.
When you are riding fixed and you start to go down hill and you hit that point where you think your legs cannot go any faster, what happens if you try?
I mean, the hill steepens, gravity works and you really do red line? I have always run out of nerve. (usually around the 200 rpm mark). i was always of the opinion that you would start to bounce (or sway as in my case) so much that you would lose control and fall. Is this the case? I have never seen it happen. Or is it possible, if you are super smooth, to find that point where, without trying to "back pedal", the natural friction of your legs will hold it back, at even super steep grades. say 20% plus on a 66"
Regards
Martin Coopland, Scotland, http://www.BatesBicycles.com