Post your Fixie piccies
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby Gordonhooker » Tue Dec 30, 2014 12:51 pm
Nice looking scoot the minhyyminhyy wrote:picked up a new toy today..
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby ldrcycles » Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:37 pm
+1, i love the idea of getting myself a Klein on a budget .QuangVuong wrote:Which paint is that? I couldn't find any Aussie stock lists of chameleon paints.
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby QuangVuong » Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:53 pm
So if you're lucky, then some stores may have old stock. Otherwise, Plastidip do have a chameleon paint too, but I wanted something permanent.
So I did find some eventually from USA. Keep an eye out in the retro section. It's gonna appear soon.
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby zero » Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:47 pm
my new ahem training bike, Malvern Star 1949 5 star gents semi racer frame - non orig forks, paint and decals presumed date from the 60s (frame vendor guessed a bikeshop repaint after a collision killed the orig forks, I'd add to that a 99% probability the frame has been straightened). bartape is temporary (stuff looks nice in the packet, that's about its only virtue).
27in wheels (new sun m13-II rims), 27x1 panaracer pasala tires, runs 95psi and I can use 700x25-28 tubes since its difficult to find 27x1 tubes. Fixed rear, 46x17 gearing, 165mm cranks.
Its same weight as my road bike, and at centennial park, probably faster.
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
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Forbesy's Bombtrack
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Re: Forbesy's Bombtrack
Postby zero » Wed Mar 11, 2015 9:10 pm
Never actually heard of bombtrack before, but I like that frame. wonder what they look like in 59-60cmdodgiebros wrote:My current steed... Bombtrack Script frame, Messenger cranks, Reynolds Solitude road wheels 'fixed' to a Dati hub, ugly but comfortable Cardiff saddle, Diacomp brake, Look stem, no name bull horns and a Gusset half link chain. She's a sweet ride
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby dodgiebros » Wed Mar 11, 2015 9:35 pm
Good fun making up a bitsa bikes hey [emoji106]
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Re: Forbesy's Bombtrack
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Mar 11, 2015 10:30 pm
If she rides half as sweet as she looks, Damn!
What did the frame set you back if it's OK to ask?
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby Mulger bill » Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:04 pm
Understand perfectly.dodgiebros wrote:I just had to have it.
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby Cycleops70 » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:24 pm
Thought I'd try out this fixie malarkey, & see what all the fuss is about.
Just a cheapy Cell Fixie, nothing flash. I flipped the wheel round from 'free wheel' to fixed. & went for my first ride.
31Km reasonably flat route. There are some hills, mostly short. One is 7.6% & I had some trouble with wheel spin :-/
Things I knew, but were hammered home;
1 Never take your feet off the pedals.. ever!
2 Never stand up unless you are starting off, or going uphill, else you shall be ejected like a Bond villain from an Aston Martin.
3 Really need to be clipped in. Too much float.
New things I learnt;
1 Hills are your enemy, both up & down.
2 It's surprisingly comfortable.
3 Feels very smooth.
4 I need flats one side, SPD other.
5 I'm no good at track stands
6 I could never do without brakes.
I'm now ready for the Giro d'Perth this weekend
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby Mulger bill » Fri Mar 13, 2015 9:03 pm
Added one for you based on painful experienceCycleops70 wrote: New things I learnt;
1 Hills are your enemy, both up & down.
2 It's surprisingly comfortable.
3 Feels very smooth.
4 I need flats one side, SPD other.
5 I'm no good at track stands
6 I could never do without brakes.
7 Roll up pant legs, tuck in shoelaces
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby Cycleops70 » Sat Mar 14, 2015 1:03 am
A beard appears to come in handy too!
I thoroughly enjoyed my ride. More than I thought. A convert? Maybe
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
Postby ray » Sat Mar 14, 2015 1:27 pm
Replaced the bullhorns with dropbars and steerer cut. Running 46/17 so chain has a bit of sag.
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Re: Post your Fixie piccies
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