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#2551
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Wrong sub-forum for opinions. Go try the hipsters in Singlespeed & Fixed Gear. I ride a fixie too, and I'll say yours wouldn't turn my head to stare.
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No gauges, no beard, no skin-tight jeans. But there is a fixed track bike with stickers & PBR.
No protien shakes, no shaved legs, no Campy cycling cap. But there is a European carbon roadie & fine coffee.
No MBTA account, no anti ATV advocacy, no baggy shorts. But there is a fine hardtail & craft brews.
Call me a fixie hipster, call me a posh roadie, call me a trail rider. People who know me call me by my name, and know that I'm a cyclist!
No protien shakes, no shaved legs, no Campy cycling cap. But there is a European carbon roadie & fine coffee.
No MBTA account, no anti ATV advocacy, no baggy shorts. But there is a fine hardtail & craft brews.
Call me a fixie hipster, call me a posh roadie, call me a trail rider. People who know me call me by my name, and know that I'm a cyclist!
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No gauges, no beard, no skin-tight jeans. But there is a fixed track bike with stickers & PBR.
No protien shakes, no shaved legs, no Campy cycling cap. But there is a European carbon roadie & fine coffee.
No MBTA account, no anti ATV advocacy, no baggy shorts. But there is a fine hardtail & craft brews.
Call me a fixie hipster, call me a posh roadie, call me a trail rider. People who know me call me by my name, and know that I'm a cyclist!
No protien shakes, no shaved legs, no Campy cycling cap. But there is a European carbon roadie & fine coffee.
No MBTA account, no anti ATV advocacy, no baggy shorts. But there is a fine hardtail & craft brews.
Call me a fixie hipster, call me a posh roadie, call me a trail rider. People who know me call me by my name, and know that I'm a cyclist!
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Pretty hot! Surprised the silver tape looks so good.
Okay folks, you might wanna go easy since I'm a bike mechanic and thus a pauper, and this is the best I was able to cobble together from hand-me-downs, second-hand parts and a tax return.
But have a go at me if you must about the chain-ring situation; I just couldn't do it since a stationary bike in the big ring has always looked silly to me.
Already had the wheels, crankset and pedals (I ride in street clothes), bar and stem, so when I scored this slightly damaged frameset for $0, I kinda noticed the confluence of red bits between it and my stem and nipples... so red bits it was. The Red stuff is s/h, but all the red stuff is new.
The RD's original RED, the FD's a Yaw jobbie, and the brifters are 'Black' RED. The stuff feels cheap through the lever, but it's light as hell and works the bomb. Brakes are DA, 7700 on the front and 7400 on the rear (with a 7700 QR). Chain and cassette are DA.
No bottle cages cause they interfere with portaging the bike up and down stairs, and I'm not usually on the bike more than 20 minutes. The seat makes sure I look after the DA drivetrain and ride the pub bike instead in the wet.
Okay folks, you might wanna go easy since I'm a bike mechanic and thus a pauper, and this is the best I was able to cobble together from hand-me-downs, second-hand parts and a tax return.
But have a go at me if you must about the chain-ring situation; I just couldn't do it since a stationary bike in the big ring has always looked silly to me.
Already had the wheels, crankset and pedals (I ride in street clothes), bar and stem, so when I scored this slightly damaged frameset for $0, I kinda noticed the confluence of red bits between it and my stem and nipples... so red bits it was. The Red stuff is s/h, but all the red stuff is new.
The RD's original RED, the FD's a Yaw jobbie, and the brifters are 'Black' RED. The stuff feels cheap through the lever, but it's light as hell and works the bomb. Brakes are DA, 7700 on the front and 7400 on the rear (with a 7700 QR). Chain and cassette are DA.
No bottle cages cause they interfere with portaging the bike up and down stairs, and I'm not usually on the bike more than 20 minutes. The seat makes sure I look after the DA drivetrain and ride the pub bike instead in the wet.
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I am thinking of upgrading my wheels and if I do, would love to have the decals in same green or, would that be overkill?
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Pretty hot! Surprised the silver tape looks so good.
Okay folks, you might wanna go easy since I'm a bike mechanic and thus a pauper, and this is the best I was able to cobble together from hand-me-downs, second-hand parts and a tax return.
But have a go at me if you must about the chain-ring situation; I just couldn't do it since a stationary bike in the big ring has always looked silly to me.
Already had the wheels, crankset and pedals (I ride in street clothes), bar and stem, so when I scored this slightly damaged frameset for $0, I kinda noticed the confluence of red bits between it and my stem and nipples... so red bits it was. The Red stuff is s/h, but all the red stuff is new.
The RD's original RED, the FD's a Yaw jobbie, and the brifters are 'Black' RED. The stuff feels cheap through the lever, but it's light as hell and works the bomb. Brakes are DA, 7700 on the front and 7400 on the rear (with a 7700 QR). Chain and cassette are DA.
No bottle cages cause they interfere with portaging the bike up and down stairs, and I'm not usually on the bike more than 20 minutes. The seat makes sure I look after the DA drivetrain and ride the pub bike instead in the wet.
Okay folks, you might wanna go easy since I'm a bike mechanic and thus a pauper, and this is the best I was able to cobble together from hand-me-downs, second-hand parts and a tax return.
But have a go at me if you must about the chain-ring situation; I just couldn't do it since a stationary bike in the big ring has always looked silly to me.
Already had the wheels, crankset and pedals (I ride in street clothes), bar and stem, so when I scored this slightly damaged frameset for $0, I kinda noticed the confluence of red bits between it and my stem and nipples... so red bits it was. The Red stuff is s/h, but all the red stuff is new.
The RD's original RED, the FD's a Yaw jobbie, and the brifters are 'Black' RED. The stuff feels cheap through the lever, but it's light as hell and works the bomb. Brakes are DA, 7700 on the front and 7400 on the rear (with a 7700 QR). Chain and cassette are DA.
No bottle cages cause they interfere with portaging the bike up and down stairs, and I'm not usually on the bike more than 20 minutes. The seat makes sure I look after the DA drivetrain and ride the pub bike instead in the wet.
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I've gotta say the extreme saddle/bar positions take a away from the 'hotness' in my eyes. I ride with a bar drop even on my mountain bike, but best of luck doing a full century on that! Or do you have incredibly long arms, but not torso?
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One of the sexiest bikes I've seen on this thread in quite a while. I think black bar tape would fit better, and the full length rear brake housing kind of distracts from the nice lines of the slim tubes, but other than that... yea, beautiful.
Such a nice departure from the usual plastic, overly shaped, generic rolling billboard bikes from the usual BigBike Corp vendors. Unimaginative bikes for unimaginative people.
Such a nice departure from the usual plastic, overly shaped, generic rolling billboard bikes from the usual BigBike Corp vendors. Unimaginative bikes for unimaginative people.
#2567
No gauges, no beard, no skin-tight jeans. But there is a fixed track bike with stickers & PBR.
No protien shakes, no shaved legs, no Campy cycling cap. But there is a European carbon roadie & fine coffee.
No MBTA account, no anti ATV advocacy, no baggy shorts. But there is a fine hardtail & craft brews.
Call me a fixie hipster, call me a posh roadie, call me a trail rider. People who know me call me by my name, and know that I'm a cyclist!
No protien shakes, no shaved legs, no Campy cycling cap. But there is a European carbon roadie & fine coffee.
No MBTA account, no anti ATV advocacy, no baggy shorts. But there is a fine hardtail & craft brews.
Call me a fixie hipster, call me a posh roadie, call me a trail rider. People who know me call me by my name, and know that I'm a cyclist!
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I'd be willing to bet that if the seat was level it would also have to be lowered and it would reduce the saddle>bar drop. It would probably fit better, and be more comfortable. But why would anyone want to do that?
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LOL!
Never thought of the bag in that light. I does come in handy carrying my spare tube and tools. Any suggestions for something smaller?
Never thought of the bag in that light. I does come in handy carrying my spare tube and tools. Any suggestions for something smaller?
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The rear housing loop is that short for three reasons: 1, I used a single gear set of Alligator iLink gear housing to do both brakes and gears, extending it under the tape with some Aztek beads I found. I was momentarily bummed when it looked like I didn't have quite enough, but figured I might as well see how it went with the short loop, and lo and behold, there was no excess friction. This probably wouldn't be the case with standard housing. 2, being a SRAM derailer, the upper pivot doesn't move except for wheel removal, so any potential inaccuracy from such a tight curve changing shape (the iLink isn't in the same league as Nokon and does change length with movement) is moot. 3 - turns out it looks frikken badarse next to a big ugly loop. So there's that. Folks with SRAM derailers and segmented housing may want to give it a shot.
If I had Shimano's stupid 10s system on there with standard housing I'd have a loop big enough to strangle a rugby player. But SRAM pulls enough cable to have an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio.
As for my bars and seat, that's down to my riding style (and >20 years of doing it), which differs somewhat from that of the MAMILs who frequent this forum: rather than long rides in groups which finish where they start, as previously mentioned I'm rarely on the bike more than 20 minutes, and usually riding like a courier. So long-term comfort isn't the priority (I sit on that gnarly-looking thing without a chamois); supporting an aggressive riding style is. A level seat is recommended as a starting point; breaking out a spirit level is ridiculous when you're supposed to tweak it up to a few degrees to suit yourself, and every seat is different. I used to run my seats more level than this, with only a very slight forward tilt, until I tried more tilt a couple of years ago and preferred it - now my starting point is pointing at the hoods (seems to make more sense to include some reference to bar height with seat angle, IMO). My boss thought I was nuts too, until he tried it on his commuter. Now his seat points to his hoods.
And my bars - OMG. Given the range of combinations of bar angle and lever height, what makes you think this isn't a perfectly valid setup? I've been pointing my drops at the rear axle with my levers vertical for 20 years for a number of reasons. As you can see from my gearing, I don't do much climbing at all, so that's not a consideration. And riding in street clothes, I don't get a whole lot of opportunities to hit the big ring and get in the drops, so it's optimised for having my palms on the top of the hoods, hence the flat area of the hoods lining up with the forward extension of the bars. Still works fine in the drops, but a little sub-optimal for climbing. Suits me fine, and again (IMO), looks badarse.
Everyone has their own anatomy and style of course, and the combination of mine puts me on the edge of the bell curve. Naturally, I'll set anyone else's bike up by the book.
But geez, I reckon too many folks take The Rules a little too seriously - they're tongue-in-cheek for a reason.
BTW, you forgot to have a go at me for cutting my carbon steerer flush. Since I don't like the look of the proper way to do it, the frameset cost me $0, and I'm not a brawny sprinter type, I countersunk the expansion plug to maximise the amount of steerer under the top cap, and just did the lower clamp bolt a couple of Nm tighter. Seems pretty robust a year later, so there's another Rule I'm gonna ignore on my own bikes.
(Apologies for the wall of text; here's a photochop of my other sweet bike as compensation)
It'll need a super-fancy anodising job (and paint for the fork) before it looks like that
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Yeah, when it finally happens! It'll look a little different, though; black pad holders, it'll get a full wrap on the bars, and I have a ratty 7700 crankset I want to strip the clear lacquer off (WTF, Shimano), polish and anodise with the DA logo etched in, with black chainrings.
This bike's a sentimental fave; I've had it for sixteen years.
It was brown when I bought it : /
This bike's a sentimental fave; I've had it for sixteen years.
It was brown when I bought it : /
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