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Originally Posted by cantdrv55
I just bought an old steel Specialized but not for fixie conversion. I've never ridden steel before but heard their smoothness is unsurpassed. So, I'm refurbishing it and will be riding centuries on it. I agree fixies are cool but I'm afraid my knees wouldn't survive the hills.
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Save the fixies and tight gear sets like 12-23 or 11-21 for the flats. Gearing like that is pure baseball bat to the kidneys, drill bits in the knees material, sometimes even on the flats. It's one thing when you're 18 and have the resolve for gears like that, but two or three decades later, forget it.