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Old 11-13-18, 08:43 AM
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Nice Drivetrain!!!!

Racked up next to this beast this morning.

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inside here at the station ... kinda tight on space and overloaded with bikes (not my photo).
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Bicycle racks at train stations. This must be Europe. ;-)
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Originally Posted by Harhir
Bicycle racks at train stations. This must be Europe. ;-)
They also have this area ... but those are the only designated areas ... 110 spaces total (maybe 130 at a push).

After that it's full and you can't chain up bikes anywhere else.

1.6M ppl pass through yearly, or a little over 4k people/day, so as you guess it's always full :/

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What drivetrain are we looking at? Is that a single speed freewheel?
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Originally Posted by acidfast7
They also have this area ... but those are the only designated areas ... 110 spaces total (maybe 130 at a push).

After that it's full and you can't chain up bikes anywhere else.

1.6M ppl pass through yearly, or a little over 4k people/day, so as you guess it's always full :/
Most places in the USA 4k people per day would mean about 5 bike parking spaces.are needed. The main exception being on university campuses.
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Originally Posted by noglider
What drivetrain are we looking at? Is that a single speed freewheel?
Yeah and a very small front sprocket. Looks like a 36T by eyeball.

Also, I assume that's not the out of box driver train but I could be mistaken. Just curious why someone would change it over.

Looked well-used on an standard frame.

Just caught my attention, so carry on folks!
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I do like it. I just wanted to make sure I knew what I was looking at. The nice thing about it is that it's clearly deliberate, so the owner knew exactly what he needs. The bottom half of Manhattan has no big hills, and there are many geared bikes converted to SS for simplicity and light weight.
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Originally Posted by noglider
I do like it. I just wanted to make sure I knew what I was looking at. The nice thing about it is that it's clearly deliberate, so the owner knew exactly what he needs. The bottom half of Manhattan has no big hills, and there are many geared bikes converted to SS for simplicity and light weight.
Yup that caught my attention as well.

It was an active decision on a relatively new frame (maybe 3 years old max.)

Good, solid conversion.
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Are those good, solid knobbies an "active decision" too?
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I like riding my MTB in one gear. On my commute I can usually do it in 30-15 and if I’m feeling pretty good, 30-13. I think about maybe going 1x1. But I have a bum ticker day or ride on a real hill or tow the kiddos, and I get over it.
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Originally Posted by Reynolds
Are those good, solid knobbies an "active decision" too?
Have you seen a UK street or pavement?

This seems about par for the course.


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Originally Posted by acidfast7
Have you seen a UK street or pavement?

This seems about par for the course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf73OqKb0h4
You think that is a bad road surface for cycling? Wow, you must really be spoiled.
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A single cog cassette free hub conversion?
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Originally Posted by acidfast7
Have you seen a UK street or pavement?

This seems about par for the course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf73OqKb0h4
if that's your idea of a bad road you've had it extremely easy
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Originally Posted by suncruiser
if that's your idea of a bad road you've had it extremely easy
I busted a lot of Gatonskins on road like that!
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Originally Posted by acidfast7
I busted a lot of Gatonskins on road like that!
Gatorskins must be really crappy tires if the pictured road surface caused them to "bust."
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"Worst road surface in Britain."

The street I live on looks significantly worse than anything in that video.

And this isn't even as bad as it gets:
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Strangely enough, the OP bike is NOT a conversion. I had 2 bonus warm days this week and rode by our funky LBS by our university, Redbike.
And there was this brand new goofy derailleur SS contraption for sale. Then I saw another bike with disc SS in a 35mm dropout I think, ready for a SA wheel.
This LBS is the IGH and commuter specialist. They are big in the big tractor tire stuff also None of the boring lame TREK clunkers.
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Originally Posted by acidfast7
I busted a lot of Gatonskins on road like that!
gatorskins must not be as tough as the name implies, because the roads around phoenix are rather rough (about what you showed us pretty much everywhere in town, not counting goats heads) and I've never really had an issue with my schwalbe with green compound tires outside of a few punctures
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Originally Posted by DrIsotope
"Worst road surface in Britain."

The street I live on looks significantly worse than anything in that video.

And this isn't even as bad as it gets:
Come on man, this is a commuting forum.
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Originally Posted by suncruiser
gatorskins must not be as tough as the name implies, because the roads around phoenix are rather rough (about what you showed us pretty much everywhere in town, not counting goats heads) and I've never really had an issue with my schwalbe with green compound tires outside of a few punctures
On roads like in that video, I shredded a Gatorskin and broke a Durano in half. The Marathons have been good since then.
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Around here, they put asphalt patches on top of patches and call it a road. The road in that video is better than many I ride on. The bike paths are pretty bad too. Maintenance is almost nonexistent. They finally repaired a steep downhill section with a sharp turn at the bottom with bone jarring ridges that would cause a loss of traction just when you needed it the most.
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From what I can tell from the OP photo, the bike looks to be an older mountain bike with a singlespeed spacer kit and single cog installed on a Shimano cassette hub. This is an excellent way to convert a cassette hub wheel to singlespeed use, because you can stack the spacers on the freehub body in any order you like and get an ideal chainline by placing the single cog anywhere you like on the freehub body to achieve a good chainline. The chain tensioner attached to the rear derailleur hanger is necessary because there is no way to dial in chain tension on the singlespeed setup with this frame's vertical rear dropouts.

I'm not a huge fan of chain tensioners that are used for that purpose, it takes away some of a singlespeed's mechanical simplicity by adding that spring-loaded arm, but if you really want to run a bike as a singlespeed and the bike has vertical dropouts, you almost always have to use a chain tensioner similar to the one in the photo. You can even use a rear derailleur's chain tensioning function, it not only "derails" the chain when shifting, but is a chain tensioner as well,. The other possibility is to get extremely lucky with your setup and end up with a vertical-dropout-equipped singlespeed that uses a "magic gear." This term refers to a gear combination/chain length that has the chain properly tensioned without use of a chain tensioner on a singlespeed with vertical rear dropouts.
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