Whenever I get the urge to own a "fixie", I just start riding in one gear and never stop pedaling. Then, when I hit a steep uphill or downhill, the urge passes and I shift. ;-)
As a practical question, why couldn't a Rambouillet (or a Roadeo) be set up as a single speed and converted back when you need gearing? The SimpleOne seems to be outside of the Rivendell velosophy of practical, but beautiful, bikes. Also, once you throw brakes on a fixie, you alienate the one demographic (in NYC, anyway) that seems to want to ride one. On Mar 25, 3:27 pm, David Spranger <daspran...@gmail.com> wrote: > After only a week of riding my SimpleOne, I find it is fast becoming my > favorite bike. I cannot pin down what quality it has that gives me such a > joy to ride. I own a Rambouillet and a Surly LHT and it would be easy to > make the argument that either one of those is way more practical for my > purposes than the SimpleOne. I do love both of those bikes and would not > easily give them up, but the SimpleOne has become my new best friend. I am > grateful that I bought one before they disappeared. > > David Spranger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
