What I saw in town...
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What I saw in town...
Postby stryker84 » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:23 am
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What initially caught my eye was the leather saddle and tape, then noticed it was single-gear sans brakes, and the nice matte white finish (it just looks shiny becasue of my dinky little mobile phone camera).
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Postby 531db » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:50 pm
If not for bastard hills, all bikes would be like this.
Some fixie riders do not have brakes, because they can slow or skidstop simply by unweighting the rear wheel and stopping pedalling.
This fixie rider however has both front and rear brakes on the 'Flying Falcon'(the retro training bike), a front brake only on the Bates Track/Road (an absolute classic) and no brakes on the Guerciotti Track (raced on the track only).
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Postby mikesbytes » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:15 pm
The reason you can get away with no brakes, is that you apply reverse pedal force to slow, personally I think thats insufficient, but others recon thats fine.
Had one of the brookes leather saddles, or a similar model in the late 70's. Many love them, I didn't.
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Postby stryker84 » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:54 pm
just interested me though, first time seeing one around, and such a well maintained one as well...
that may well be a future project for me, a retro-style fixie. but that's not for a while yet...
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Postby europa » Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:06 pm
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Let the freewheel reign supreem.
Postby Kid_Carbine » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:52 am
The world moved away from fixed wheels because it was a curse & a blight on mankind yet we have a pain obsessed bunch of crazies hell bent on self torture by reinventing a cycling version of the rack, then applying a 'girls' name to it like 'fix-ie' [rhymes with Pixie]
Stick with a single speed freewheel with two good brakes & I'll coast down the hills as god intended, feeling the cool & refreshing breeze on my face, no need to wastefully expend my precious reserves of energy, using gravity as my motive power, resting my tired body, without having to fight those unyeilding & savage whiring monsters at my feet all the way to the bottom of the slope, only to have to lift my weary bones from the saddle once again to struggle up the other side.
Fixed wheels are brilliant on the track, or for those who are too poverty stricken to ride anything else, but for all others, let the feeewheel reign supreme as god & nature intended.
I know I will.
If I should ever feel the overwhelming urge to inflict needless pain & suffering on my body, I will just throw myself off the roof a few times, that should approximate a day on a fix-ie.
Now that's AUSTRALIAN to the core.
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Postby europa » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:43 am
Actually, it was revealed in a recently discovered 'Letter to the Apostles' that God was dismayed when man used his freewill to invent the freewheel, thus moving away from the path of enlightenment.
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Postby tallywhacker » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:43 am
Fixed gear riders are the only ones who when they ride 100km actually ride 100km
Gears? We ain't got no gears. We don't need no gears.
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Postby scratchman » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:01 am
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Postby europa » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:16 am
Different animal though. If I wanted to ride single speed, I'd just forget to change gears on the geared bike It's a matter of differing challenges for me, which is why it's so much fun to get 'all emotional' about. I mean, where's the fun in arguing about something that has an answer?
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Postby Kid_Carbine » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:08 am
There will be no mistake should I actually get serious.
None the less, anyone that does long distance on a fixed wheel [I refuse to say fix-ie, it sounds so, ... so,.... effite'] deserves the macho award of the day, & as Tallywacker said, he "rides" every yard of the journey. Only god knows why, i'm sure.
Please note that the cycle in my avatar is a fixed wheel machine, & riding it less than 2 miles in a parade each year was more than enough fun for me, but then, I'm not very macho. lol
I look forward to further debate with [hopefully] witty repartee' in the future.
Thread hijack now ended.
Now that's AUSTRALIAN to the core.
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Postby tallywhacker » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:07 am
I suppose Richard and I are the resident anal fixed gearers (also hate that other f word) and know whay anyone would ride anything else.
Nothing macho about it, its an addiction.
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Postby MichaelB » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:42 pm
A reader recently enquired about a bike and requiring brakes, adding they hoped they wouldn't 'offend' us.
While asthetically, you lose the clean lines of a pista bred machine by adding a brake, you will save yourself a lot of skin.
Brakes are important. We were slow to come around. Brakes came off after after two years of getting to grips with fixed, only then because we trashed our brake'd ride on the Hell Ride.
Starting off fixed - san brakes 'cause you saw it in Monsterchildren is a smart as setting your hair on fire. If you're bald to start with, it'll hurt even more.
Related to the original part of this post about the bike seen without brakes.
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