Cyclocross to single speed conversion (Felt F65X 2012) - Is this viable?
07-22-15, 09:03 AM
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No I didn't. I was replying and agreeing to someone else who mentions how people are negative on this forum. Much like how you're replying to me. So by your logic that makes you the most negative here.
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This subforum has a tremendous quantity of help and support, and maybe the lowest level of garbage advice. However, as the warning on the door says, there is grumpiness that follows when people are lazy. So, play it any way you want, but if you find it too much, why keep showing up to complain about the people who respond regularly?
07-22-15, 09:18 AM
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So, zero ability to reflect....
This subforum has a tremendous quantity of help and support, and maybe the lowest level of garbage advice. However, as the warning on the door says, there is grumpiness that follows when people are lazy. So, play it any way you want, but if you find it too much, why keep showing up to complain about the people who respond regularly?
This subforum has a tremendous quantity of help and support, and maybe the lowest level of garbage advice. However, as the warning on the door says, there is grumpiness that follows when people are lazy. So, play it any way you want, but if you find it too much, why keep showing up to complain about the people who respond regularly?
07-22-15, 09:24 AM
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No fight here, just pointing out your negativity, while you complained about others. Hoping, for some odd reason, that you might see it and think about it. If you want to discuss this further, pm me. Otherwise, let's stop wasting others time.
07-22-15, 11:28 AM
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If you like books, especially beautifully designed and illustrated books with abundant historical, technical and practical information, you will enjoy owning this book and using it as a how-to for completing your own SS/fixed conversion:
One Gear: Converting and Maintaining Single Speed and Fixed Gear Bicycles
"One Gear is a unique, much needed contribution to the culture that explains in simple, easy to understand language the steps required for a beginning or intermediate bike mechanic to learn how to rebuild and convert a geared bicycle into a slick, personalized fixie or single-speed. One Gear also contains chapters on single-speed variants such as flip-flop hubs, torpedo hubs and modern coaster brakes, as well as pictorial essays featuring frame builders ranging from classic standard bearers such as Cinelli and De Rosa to contemporary practitioners like Icarus Frames."
The book is simply a pleasure to read. If I ever find that soulful old road frame with horizontal dropouts, it's going to be a lot of fun doing the conversion.
One Gear: Converting and Maintaining Single Speed and Fixed Gear Bicycles
"One Gear is a unique, much needed contribution to the culture that explains in simple, easy to understand language the steps required for a beginning or intermediate bike mechanic to learn how to rebuild and convert a geared bicycle into a slick, personalized fixie or single-speed. One Gear also contains chapters on single-speed variants such as flip-flop hubs, torpedo hubs and modern coaster brakes, as well as pictorial essays featuring frame builders ranging from classic standard bearers such as Cinelli and De Rosa to contemporary practitioners like Icarus Frames."
The book is simply a pleasure to read. If I ever find that soulful old road frame with horizontal dropouts, it's going to be a lot of fun doing the conversion.
This sounds like a great read. I plan to pick up a copy.
07-23-15, 12:50 AM
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If you like books, especially beautifully designed and illustrated books with abundant historical, technical and practical information, you will enjoy owning this book and using it as a how-to for completing your own SS/fixed conversion:
One Gear: Converting and Maintaining Single Speed and Fixed Gear Bicycles
"One Gear is a unique, much needed contribution to the culture that explains in simple, easy to understand language the steps required for a beginning or intermediate bike mechanic to learn how to rebuild and convert a geared bicycle into a slick, personalized fixie or single-speed. One Gear also contains chapters on single-speed variants such as flip-flop hubs, torpedo hubs and modern coaster brakes, as well as pictorial essays featuring frame builders ranging from classic standard bearers such as Cinelli and De Rosa to contemporary practitioners like Icarus Frames."
The book is simply a pleasure to read. If I ever find that soulful old road frame with horizontal dropouts, it's going to be a lot of fun doing the conversion.
One Gear: Converting and Maintaining Single Speed and Fixed Gear Bicycles
"One Gear is a unique, much needed contribution to the culture that explains in simple, easy to understand language the steps required for a beginning or intermediate bike mechanic to learn how to rebuild and convert a geared bicycle into a slick, personalized fixie or single-speed. One Gear also contains chapters on single-speed variants such as flip-flop hubs, torpedo hubs and modern coaster brakes, as well as pictorial essays featuring frame builders ranging from classic standard bearers such as Cinelli and De Rosa to contemporary practitioners like Icarus Frames."
The book is simply a pleasure to read. If I ever find that soulful old road frame with horizontal dropouts, it's going to be a lot of fun doing the conversion.
It's a size 57. I might be interested in selling it in the future. However, I live in Finland, so shipping far away might make this a bad deal for you
Either way, it has one broken spoke in the back (and some creaks and clicks I want to silence), so I'm taking the rear wheel to the shop.For now, I think I'm keeping the Felt, while in no hurry to find a way to satisfy my craving for a single speed for the road. Building a bike certainly would be a learning experience. I could just keep my eyes open for good used components. I am considering buying some tools to service the Felt thoroughly myself (mainly the BB). I could learn a lot from this.
I have nothing against gears, except the fact that keeping it running smooth as a day-to-day bike is a bit more work than I expected. I'm also a bit nervous leaving it locked in public places, as it looks so attractive and might be damaged in stuffed bike racks outdoors
07-23-15, 05:18 AM
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If you get any interest in taking your RB1 back to geared or if you just want solid B'stone info - check out the Bridgestone Owners Bunch group on facebook, which I think is an outgrowth of the old newsletter based BOB group created by Grant Petersen. Lots of help and good peeps there...
07-23-15, 06:53 AM
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Hard cover, heavy semi-gloss paper, offset printed, would look great on anyone's coffee table. A great value at $25 if you're in the habit of buying nice books.
07-23-15, 11:27 AM
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If you get any interest in taking your RB1 back to geared or if you just want solid B'stone info - check out the Bridgestone Owners Bunch group on facebook, which I think is an outgrowth of the old newsletter based BOB group created by Grant Petersen. Lots of help and good peeps there...
07-24-15, 02:33 AM
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Well, like I've mentioned, I live in Finland. I can find the book for £25 at Amazon. Add shipping to this and we're talking closer to 45 USD. This is not something I, on a tight budget, spend on a book just like that.
A decent price, in my case, would be a used copy of the book, which I might find for about 30 USD (incl. shipping). I will consider buying it if I'm certain I will get more into single speed/fixies. I'm sure it's a fine book.
I've now set my sights on something like a Kona Paddy Wagon or a On-One Pompino. Either of these seem like good starting points for trying out single speed.
A decent price, in my case, would be a used copy of the book, which I might find for about 30 USD (incl. shipping). I will consider buying it if I'm certain I will get more into single speed/fixies. I'm sure it's a fine book.
I've now set my sights on something like a Kona Paddy Wagon or a On-One Pompino. Either of these seem like good starting points for trying out single speed.
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