[CR]Re: Fixed gear

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:28:37 -0800
From: "Kristopher Green" <kristopher.green@gmail.com>
To: Oldtrikerider@aol.com, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Fixed gear


Paul P. wrote:

My experience with fixed gear bikes has shown that on short hills I can reach the top quicker with a fixed gear than a multi-speed bike. I don't know why but find it interesting. It's a bit like shifting up one gear rather than down for the climb. All of the other "advantages" of fixed riding mention ed by other already also apply.

And I respond:

While I'm not an engineer and cannot vouch for the theories espoused by this article, there's an explanation for the fixie's hill-climbing abilities here:

A Theory of Holonomic Scleronomous Gyrators, or The Virtues of Riding Fixed by James Bernard Lee, Portland, Oregon; Prepared for 1st International Fixed Gear Symposium

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/articles/lee/lee.pdf [Caution: PDF]

Kris Green, who rode his fixed Masi Nouva Strada to work today (thus tying together two current threads!) Olympia WA