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Debbie's Servant
This is a bike I built up 12 years ago. I bought the frame, fork (both steel) and wheels (specific to track/fixed gear) but all of the other parts came off of our old bikes.
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This is a bike I built up 12 years ago. I bought the frame, fork (both steel) and wheels (specific to track/fixed gear) but all of the other parts came off of our old bikes.
That's an elegantly minimalist machine.
This is my little fixie built about 14 years ago. The frame and Campy Record track cranks and wheels were new but most other parts were floating around. I had a track bar on it first but the downward curve of the tops didn't give enough leverage, It is a much nicer ride with the old school TT bars on there.
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I don't think the branding was too much on my Litespeed
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Oh yeah, yours has a lot more. The black down tube is interesting, is it carbon. I've ridden mine about 5 km's in the last 3 yeas! Gotta get out more! Mine was custom fitted and a custom build, it was insured for more than my 640 new. It's still a beautiful ride.
Where is that Trenton rally? Will the new normal right now I don't see any trips off the island for me this year, I have a week long lighthouse tour I want to do around the island if I can pull it off. There was a Horizons Unlimited rally scheduled on the west coast for August but how likely is that?
Replaced the cassette on ALAN, gave it a total clean up, swapped the tires front to back, ordered new cables, got new old stock ultegra equipment coming, (the 600 brakes are going on the shelf), checked and will reuse Wipperman chain, went with 11-23 cassette because I never use the low gears. Normally turn a 52 to 14 gear where I ride. Still waiting on the standard shimano spacer for the cassette. Got a new seat too. That's about it.
I know people in Trenton and I agree trying to organize a rally before things are settled out is a good route to suicide.
I was just posting pictures of fixies on another bicycle thread so here's the one I had in Taipei. It was super fun playing in Taipei traffic every day going to and from work.
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This was a weird little bike that fortunately fit me ok. The pedals are whatever were on it, I have no idea. The pedals on the Surly came from my buddy's shop and I have no idea what they are either. When it comes to flats I mostly don't give a crap what they are as long as they are cheap. I did once buy a good set for my DH rig but ended up hating it and went back to clipless. I pretty much hate not being clipped in on any longer rides or when I rode DH. I have flats on the fixie just because now I only use it for scooting around the neighbourhood which is nothing, it was a great coffee bike when I lived in cities, not so much in a town of less than 100 people with not even a store. Not even sure what big the good flats are on, either the tandem or the 1x1.
If you guys want the best of both worlds, try the Shimano SPD A530 pedals. I’ve worn out several pairs of them and they are fantastic - - truly versatile. (They may now be superseded by a new model#, but the concept is the same.)