Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Carbon Fiber SS

Just curious, but has anyone here fixed up a ss/fixie using a carbon frame?

I am going to fix up one my bikes into a ss and someone made a comment to me the other day that I should convert my carbon bike into a fixie, it would probably come in around 15-16pds.... the more I think about it, it seems like a great idea..

i've ridden a corima, does that count?

I say go for it. Build a wheel with an Eno hub rather than trying to find a magic gear ratio/chain length.

Yeah, one guy here commutes on a carbon singlespeed. He's pretty quick.

What brand/model is your CF bike?

its a pedal force qs2.
it was 650.00 for a 2.1 pd carbon frame, and although 650.00 is alot of money, for a carbon pretty cheap. that is why the person brought it up. I was just out looking at it and I am pretty sure I am going to do it just fr kicks
good to know other people have done it

I was gonna say if it's a nice Orbea or LOOK I'd stab you.

Speaking of carbon on a fixie. I run a carbon planet x fork on track bike that I ride on the road, think I should be concerned?

I was gonna say if it's a nice Orbea or LOOK I'd stab you.

hell I 'd stab myself

I used to ride this wacky carbon bike fixed. Magic gearing is cool until your chain wears in. Or better yet, if your chain is worn when you put it on and then when you want to replace it, a new one doesn't fit.




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All that is to say.... Build an ENO wheel. You can always find a good road frame to convert if you decide you want to switch.

I was gonna say if it's a nice Orbea or LOOK I'd stab you.



I'd totally convert one of those. I think it's really funny to watch people's faces as they try to grapple with exactly what the hell it is you're riding.


My ICE was like that. Really uncomfortable, but awesome looking.

I'd totally convert one of those. I think it's really funny to watch people's faces as they try to grapple with exactly what the hell it is you're riding.


My ICE was like that. Really uncomfortable, but awesome looking.

HAHAHA! sweet! that bike has a serious identity crisis.
CF frame+fork (+ cranks too?), fixed, with risers and a BROOKS!

awesome.

HAHAHA! sweet! that bike has a serious identity crisis.
CF frame+fork (+ cranks too?), fixed, with risers and a BROOKS!

awesome.



Yeah.... those cranks..... ugh. They're on my chopper now. They make this nasty creaking noise. After a lot of time trying to figure out what was making the noise, I realized that the spider itself was flexing. Flexing to the point that loc-tite didn't keep the chainring bolts in place. They looked really cool though. That was kinda the point of that bike. I hated the way it rode. I traded it for a Cannondale MTB (whose ride I also hated) that I promptly stripped the parts off of and sold. It looked really sweet though, especially with the really fat bladed aluminum fork that went on there right before I did the trade. One of those Kinesis Air-Foil jobbies. That Easton fork flexed like a wet noodle.

I think my brother still has a funky old lugged carbon fiber trek with horizontal dropouts. He had it fixed for awhile, I think...

http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive/05bicycles/aegisFGrs.JPG

http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive/05bicycles/aegisFGrs.JPG

I LOVE that seattube.

I'd totally convert one of those. I think it's really funny to watch people's faces as they try to grapple with exactly what the hell it is you're riding.


My ICE was like that. Really uncomfortable, but awesome looking.

I have an easton fork on a univega steel frame....like it. Not sure how i feel about it on a cf frame, though....still all around goodness, though....

Just curious, but has anyone here fixed up a ss/fixie using a carbon frame?

I am going to fix up one my bikes into a ss and someone made a comment to me the other day that I should convert my carbon bike into a fixie, it would probably come in around 15-16pds.... the more I think about it, it seems like a great idea..
When I put a carbon fork, carbon seatpost and light wheels on my steel conversion it ends up way below UCI limit. I haven't been riding it like that yet as it undergoes surgery right now but it seems fun to leave it like it.

Here's a crazy one from FGG http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2005/mar/seiple.htm

I like this one.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/giantcfr1/Various%20Bikes%20Around%20Kyoto/keirinday290106007.jpg

100000000 style points deduction because of that brake. WTF is that crappy lever? And the ungodly, way too long housing? And why on earth put a rear brake on a fix? Arrrrgh

100000000 style points deduction because of that brake. WTF is that crappy lever? And the ungodly, way too long housing? And why on earth put a rear brake on a fix? Arrrrgh

I believe the bike had no hole to mount a front brake and the rear if you look close enough is two pieces of cheap aluminium clamped around the seat stays. I would imagine by the amount of training she has been doing on the keirin track lately, the brake will be coming off very soon.
Steve

Girls ride fast bikes?! :eek:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Look-carbon-fiber-single-speed-commuting-townie_W0QQitemZ7224053839QQcategoryZ98084QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

quick, it ends tomorrow!

not my auction, BTW, I just thought it applied to the topic at hand.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Look-carbon-fiber-single-speed-commuting-townie_W0QQitemZ7224053839QQcategoryZ98084QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

quick, it ends tomorrow!

not my auction, BTW, I just thought it applied to the topic at hand.

I have one of those frames sitting in my basement. It belonged to my uncle and I bought it off of him, along with a box of vintage Campy parts for a song. When I put it together with an Ultegra 600 STI gruppo I had, and took it for a ride, something felt horribly wrong, like the bike was a rolling spring. I couldn't figure it out until I stood up to power up a hill. Then I realized the problem - that the downtube had separated from the bottom bracket lug. Due to electric/chemical reactions between the carbon tubes and aluminum lugs, the glue holding the bike together was slowly dissolving.

It was really a shame. I stripped the frame and tried to find someone who would be able to reglue it, but that has come to naught. So now it rests in the basement, alone and unridden. This is a problem with many of these early CF bonded frames, as they'll eventually come apart due to an unintentional ignorance of the laws of chemical/electrical reactions between dissimilar elements.

Buyer beware.

100000000 style points deduction because of that brake. WTF is that crappy lever? And the ungodly, way too long housing? And why on earth put a rear brake on a fix? Arrrrgh

Probably to make it street legal in japan

^^^ Fair enough, but I will hate the "lightning rod" style cable housing trim with a passion forever. I don't know if it's necessary with that sort of lever, but I sure know that sort of lever itself is not necessary...

I have one of those frames sitting in my basement. It belonged to my uncle and I bought it off of him, along with a box of vintage Campy parts for a song. When I put it together with an Ultegra 600 STI gruppo I had, and took it for a ride, something felt horribly wrong, like the bike was a rolling spring. I couldn't figure it out until I stood up to power up a hill. Then I realized the problem - that the downtube had separated from the bottom bracket lug. Due to electric/chemical reactions between the carbon tubes and aluminum lugs, the glue holding the bike together was slowly dissolving.

It was really a shame. I stripped the frame and tried to find someone who would be able to reglue it, but that has come to naught. So now it rests in the basement, alone and unridden. This is a problem with many of these early CF bonded frames, as they'll eventually come apart due to an unintentional ignorance of the laws of chemical/electrical reactions between dissimilar elements.

Buyer beware.
i think calfee [used to?] fix that type of thing....

tvts, lemonds and looks of that era are so pretty in the flesh...

fsnl
sparky

100000000 style points deduction because of that brake. WTF is that crappy lever? And the ungodly, way too long housing? And why on earth put a rear brake on a fix? Arrrrgh


common practice and set-up for keirin riders training on street in japan

i don't think it's for legality either. track racers don't skip or skid. it's for braking

and as they're training they're going to stay in the drops, so a simple old school hinged-clamp brake lever is the easiest to get on and off that will work in that position.

Brings up somthing I've been wondering. How expensive/difficult would it be to build up a Columbus CF frameset? The kits they show on their site look modular. But I have no clue what goes into making a CF frame. Still, probably costs a nice chunk of change.

http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive/05bicycles/aegisFGrs.JPG

Beautiful. The head wrench at my FBS converted his Aegis to SS too. The great thing about Aegis bikes is that they have full replacable dropouts and they sell horizontal and track ends for them making a fixie/SS conversion easy. Although my Aegis isn't fixed/SSed, you can see what I mean.

http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/albums/2001-aegis-aro_svelte/pict0002_003.thumb.jpg (http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/albums/2001-aegis-aro_svelte/pict0002_003.sized.jpg)http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/albums/2001-aegis-aro_svelte/pict0001_003.thumb.jpg (http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/albums/2001-aegis-aro_svelte/pict0001_003.sized.jpg)

Also, being able to fully remove the FD "braze-on" tab allows you to really clean up the look.

http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/albums/2001-aegis-aro_svelte/pict0001_004.thumb.jpg (http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/albums/2001-aegis-aro_svelte/pict0001_004.sized.jpg)

Just an update... only thing left is to get a black crank, probably just annodize the ones on there now and msngr suggested a gold chain when the bike is finished in all black.

ritchey seatpost
profile H2O stem, 70mm, 67degree drop
deda pista bars
iro wheels, will probably get the canecreek tubies for the track later on.

looks pretty beastly but I think you posted in the wrong thread :D Concepts are aluminium, no?

oops you're right... need to go to sleep now... but hey, carbon fork;)