Fixed Gear / Single Speed

I’m considering swapping my old road bike (Giant OCR3) for a fixed gear to use as a commuter.

I’m not really using it at all and like the idea of a simple bike for training purposes. A fixed gear is meant to really help your pedaling stroke as you can never stop pedaling – you stop pedaling, the bike stops! No coasting on the downhills, instead your legs are a blur at a high cadence.

In a way it would be back to the simplicity of my first real bike in Bangladesh in the late 70s, a high back bike with 1 gear that I rode everywhere. Though I remember never being able to keep up with the one road bike in my circle of friends that had … gears.

Here’s one bike I’m considering, the Redline 925.

Another is the Bianchi San Jose (a single speed which I’d need to get converted to fixed)