I told you it was gonna be shit, but did you listen?
I've years of ACME and Audax experience of fixed and single speed riders telling me how good it is to ride fixed, how it makes you a smoother rider (that'll be why your knees hurt and you're weaving all over the road then) how it's so reliable etc, etc.
That's as they squeak along having hour long discussions about gear inches or the problem with their chain alignment, both easily solved by getting a range of gears like a normal rider btw. Or I wait for ages for them to fix a puncture "cos they're pissing about with getting the wheel out from under the mudguards or the chain tension is wrong.
Or waiting while they pick themselves up of the road when they've fallen off, "I'm on fixed, give me some room".
Or, "I've riden AAA events on fixed" or "PBP", like I'm gonna be impressed🙄 No, you're a bigger idiot than I thought you were.
But at least it's entertainment I suppose. Seeing a fixed gear rider on a long descent for one.
At least the true Doyens of fixed gear riding like BFC and Tomsk, really do ride smoothly and just get on with it, they do impress me.
But the rest .......