Really? Any figures or anything?

Climber, sprinter - meh - us cyclists tend to be lanky gits.

Have you accepted the single geared fixed as your lord an saviour?

My god no... it is the beauty of a campag equipped Bianchi all the way for me.

No chance of getting a fixie... they will be out of vogue again before you know it.

But then they'll be retro again in 20 years, and you'll be ahead of the trend (they're already out of vogue btw, any real courier will ride gears&brakes, it's only the hipsters that ride poser fixies these days - but then heavy steel fixed bikes with Brooks saddle bags were never fashionable).

Campag is at least not ShimaNO (not that my geared bike doesn't suck Japanease style), though if you are going to have gears, shouldn't you ride a 4k recumbent with a rholoff hub gear system?

I am tempted to try sram out at some point.

Double BUMP!!!

I do now ride a single speed bike and it is rumoured that Nike are now withdrawing from all forms and codes of rugby.

No chance of us going back to them any time soon then.