Decompression sickness when going back to freewheel from fixed normal?

[landotter]

Holy smokes! I rode the last six weeks exclusively fixed gear, flopped
my wheel to the f/w thinking I might as well even out the wear and get
my money's worth and AIIIIEEEEE! How creepy feeling. I felt like I had
an inner ear condition or had drunk half a bottle of mezcal! LOL I've
had a fixie in the stable before, just not abstained from freewheeling
for so long. LOL

That dang freewheel is coming off, before it KILLS me. :-P

[Rex Kerr]

landotter wrote:
> Holy smokes! I rode the last six weeks exclusively fixed gear, flopped
> my wheel to the f/w thinking I might as well even out the wear and get
> my money's worth and AIIIIEEEEE! How creepy feeling. I felt like I had
> an inner ear condition or had drunk half a bottle of mezcal! LOL I've
> had a fixie in the stable before, just not abstained from freewheeling
> for so long. LOL
>
> That dang freewheel is coming off, before it KILLS me. :-P

I know the feeling. About a week after getting my first fixie I
switched back to a freewheeling bike for a trip to work and actually
stopped and got off of the bike 3 or 4 times to make sure that nothing
was wrong with it. Test rode a singlespeed the other day and it just
seemed so wrong that the pedals would stop turning.