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Old 06-22-08, 03:28 PM
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Sixty Fiver
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The bike is a Phillip's Twenty with 20 inch wheels and performs as well as any other fixed gear bike I have although it does spin up a little faster and is a much more nimble bike.

I wasn't towing the trailer very far and wasn't looking at any significant hill climbs as the bike runs nearly 70 gear inches and I had not yet installed a bigger cog on the flip side for a lower gearing... it would not be my vehicle of choice for long hauls or huge loads.

I did a lot more towing last week and used my Trek 7500 as it has 24 speeds with a mtb drive with serious low gearing and skinnier tyres and this is what makes hauling large loads much easier.

This is our full mobile shop on the 6 foot BAW trailer...





This was a load of donated bikes on our 8 foot trailer and this load weighed least 275 pounds with the trailer... the mtb gearing made pulling this load up a 12% grade fairly easy although I could feel it in my legs the next day.

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