Riding Fixed Gear Will Ruin Your Life…

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I just recorded this video twice using my freaking laptop mic anyways here’s why you should never get into fixed gear ride pretty much ever since I started I’ve always found enjoyment in it the rawness of the ride you get when you ride a fixed gear is unparalleled to any type of biking in my opinion since you have no brakes and you’re really just stopping with your feet and you really can’t stop pedaling you feel everything on your bike and more of your muscles get activated while biking I guarantee you if you’re either an avid Road biker or mountain biker go out there and try a fixed gear the next day you will feeling sore in places you’ve never felt it’s insanely fun because there’s this little scary or stee factor I guess you get this because you are riding with literally no brakes and the only way to really control your bike is with your feet the great part about fixed gear riding also is how cheap it is the YouTube channel Global biking Network I believe did a video on how cheap a fixed gear is they ended up building one for around $50 and I to built one for around 4 the reason why they’re so cheap is because of the variety of Parts you can put on there you can pretty much put modern 2024 Parts on a bike that’s from 1980 you don’t have to worry about brake lines not fitting you don’t have to worry about your derailer working with your cassette you can pretty much use any type of axle that you want except through axle well unless your bike comes with a through axle I’ve put modern day Arrow wheels on a bike from you know probably the early 2000s the customizability is endless cuz there really is no constraints plus you don’t really feel too bad about messing with the bike such as welding on some new fitments to your frame or just completely destroying a wheel to make it more arrow for jokes also the culture and community of fixed gear riding is probably unparallel with any other type of community to put it simply fixed gear riding is basically like cool ass mountain bikers but on the road and like you guys just don’t care about competition so it just makes it even better even at sometimes I get free stuff from people who I don’t really know that too well so yeah it’s another big plus about fix gear riding now you may be wondering dude you’ve been talking the past couple of minutes about how good fix gear riding is what’s the bad part the bad part comes in when you actually get super ingrained within fixed gear culture yes fixed gear writing is very inexpensive however once you start seeing other people’s builds and then you think a 1990s Arrow full deep dish wheel is sick to put on your bike yeah um that’s that’s that’s where the problem starts to put it simply fixed gear heading gets bad because of the stupidity that you egg yourself on to do for example I’ve seen some bikes that were made in the ’90s get completely overhauled and all of a sudden they have a $2,000 road bike wheel set on them that’s the type of stupidity that I’m talking about it’s pretty much a snowball effect of pricing at first you see your fixed gear and think dude $20 for a new bottom bracket is nothing then you’re like eh might as well go with the $30 I mean it’s not much more and then you start going on Facebook Marketplace and you find these prior couple hundred group sets and you put on your bike for $50 and then it just keeps getting bigger and bigger from there then all of a sudden these Olympic track bike producers are having sales on their parts and you’re like damn bro two grand for a wheel set’s nothing what’s run that’s basically how it goes one of my biggest examples is when I built my $100 fully carbon wheel set I grabbed all these parts off of Facebook Marketplace but the bad part about it that I did not realize at first is that these are tubular rims not regular Clincher rims they’re tubular rims if you’re wondering what tubular rims are they’re basically like a big U shape on the rim with no bead on them you buy tubular tires which are easily anywhere from $4 to $60 a piece to put on these rims how you attach them to the rims is you grab some tubular tape which is $20 a piece at least and you tape it around there then you put your tire on there again this is a massive hidden cost of fixed gear riding you spend money on parts that you think are sick and cheap but then it comes and bites you in the butt later once you start actually dailying this fixed gear build that you’re are building that’s where the horrible part comes in big gear Riders are notorious for absolutely dest destroying or abusing their bike and if you’re buying road bike specific parts for a fixed GE most of the time they will not last because these road bike specific parts were just engineered to go forward go flat they’re not engineered to Bunny Hop or do a full cab on so definitely do not daily your fixed gear build daily probably like you know a commuter fixed gear the bad thing about these fixed gear builds is you’re not going to just replace that part that you break with the part that you already have now that the part is broken you’re going to replace it with a part that probably costs two times if not three times more because you want your bike to weigh less and fix gear Riders have a really hard time understanding that your bike is already light as it does not need to be even lighter my frame on my fixed gear build isn’t even fully carbon it’s not even Carbon on the handlebars and it weighs under 16 lbs if I got an actual carbon frame group set and handlebars I could probably get that to under 13 you basically get looped into roie Tendencies without being a roadie and without actually using your bike to what a ro uses it for so yeah PSA for all fix GE Riders who are currently watching this video your bike does does not need to be light and as you daily this fixed gear you’re going to realize oh I need to replace this part because it feels feels kind of off by 1 or 2 cm it’s just very odd and it ruins your life if you try to daily your fixed gear build because you’re just going to be throwing months of rent onto your bike now going back to my point about how certain road bike parts aren’t made to go in a fixed gear like I said road bike wheels are engineered to go forward and they’re not meant to Bunny Hop or other stuff like that cuz you will crack them most likely they’re also not made to really withstand torquing forces being directly applied to the hub forward and backward within quick time intervals this is where the track bike tax comes in track bike wheels are professionally made for fixed gears they’re made for professional fixed gears such as the ones used in the Olympics a lot of these Street fixed gear Riders do get their hands on them and they last a while I’ve seen them last 20 years and they look pretty much brand new such as these three spoked head rims and people charge for them they hold their value really well surprisingly I’ve seen some really really old three-spoked wheels go for a couple hundred bucks once you get into the track bike side of things for your fixed the you’re basic basically lawn gone and there’s nothing going back it’s going to be really hard for you to go back and you know recoup some of the money you lost but I bet your bike probably already cost 5 grand for a fixed gear which you’ll probably be able to sell for 200 bucks if Lucky I have not yet reached the actual track bike phase of fixed gear riding there maybe due to the fact that I don’t have the money to quite do it yet or I’m just somewhat financially responsible and this leads on to the stupidity of some of the builds I’ve seen I’ve seen some 80s frames like stuff you find in the dumpster they have these wheels that cost five grand you get a fully deep dish carbon wheel on the back then you get a three spoked head wheel on the front some of these builds are just plain stupid like I think they’re cool this is what most of these fixar writers get they get brainwashed into thinking they’re cool after being the scene for a few years to each his own I personally believe they are cool because I’ve probably been brainwashed but you spend so much money on a bike that does not need to have this much money spent on it you’re probably running a straight carbon steel frame from the 80s but then you just decide to put the most Arrow 2024 track bike wheels on your bike it surely some Insanity and then you get into trick part of it hopefully you do not destroy these wheels because you’ll be crying for the next 10 years but to put it simply I personally love fixed gear riding you get a big variety of people coming in and out of fixed gear riding it’s very fun to do but definitely stay away from it if you want to keep your pockets intact you might be going into it at first thinking dude that’ll never be me but I assure you 5 years down the line it will most likely be you if you watch the end of video make sure to like And subscribe I do Post YouTube shorts daily thank you guys for watching watching let me know down below if You’ ever tried fix your riding and if you have how much does your bike cost