Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - A brakeless disaster waiting to happen

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/40455527.html

best want ad all week

I feel depressed.

****, those pics are from my site... that's my Soma

you should TOTALLY buy that Soma ride, Bikkhu ;)

Oh, and that black bianchi and yellow chebici are my bikes.. Great. :D

And you only spent 300us on them right? I think the front tire alone on the one with the yellow bullhorns would probably be at least that...

i should sell him my nishiki beater for $300, make a 300% profit on it, and put that toward something much nicer...

but it doesn't have brakes or gears! it should cost just $300, right???

"messenger style striped down racer type thing"
that's great

Wait I was going to take the brakes off my Nishiki and sell it to him.

Why doesn't some one sell him a brakeless single speed. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee "Oh **** there are no ****ing brakes!"

this is almost as good as a book on home self-surgery.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7298&item=3696168214&rd=1

...hmmm... coincidence?

Weird - I'd swear that was a freewheel on the rear. A rusty one at that.

What is the best route to hell BTW?

What is the best route to hell BTW?
You're drinking it. Save some for the rest of us.

Mine! Mine! Mine!

ALL MINE!!!!

I need a messenger bike. Why don't the bike manufacturers make a messenger bike?

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/40455527.html

best want ad all week

that guy is located in my neighborhood. this is a perfect example of the types of people that have been moving in the past year.

Surly makes a bike that makes "people think messenger".

Will girls like me more if I look like a messenger? Is my package big enough?

hm..a track bike is not a mess. bike per se..a track bike is what you graduate to when you start to be an old fart..some old farts are messengers..

I don't mean to stoke the flames of cynicism, but if you've ever been to williamsburg...



http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/bik/40807708.html

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/bik/40808322.html

ok the black jober on the bottom may go for 1200 clams or bone, or whatever you call them. But the bianchi for 900 no way.

..a track bike is what you graduate to when you start to be an old fart..

Say what?

I need a messenger bike. Why don't the bike manufacturers make a messenger bike?

Cannondale does.... some info about that frame here (http://forums.roadbikereview.com/showthread.php?p=105005#post105005)

Funny, someone says "I'm fairly sure that no messenger's would ride it"

1 guy here rides the cannondale. i wouldnt. wouldnt trust aluminium, especially not supermegatubed minium, for work.

as for those pricks who ride no brake without knowing whats going on...gaaaaaah!!!

thats like the Fücksssss with no clips on a fix! get off that bike before you hurt yerself and someone else!

Cannondale does.... some info about that frame here (http://forums.roadbikereview.com/showthread.php?p=105005#post105005)

Funny, someone says "I'm fairly sure that no messenger's would ride it"

I would not.

Cannondale does.... some info about that frame here (http://forums.roadbikereview.com/showthread.php?p=105005#post105005)

Funny, someone says "I'm fairly sure that no messenger's would ride it"

Nope can't say that I'd ride it.
There is one guy here that I've seen on a C'dale track (silver or gray /dark red colors). But I think he also races track, so it could be his race bike and felt like taking it out one day.

Look at the picture of the Cannondale when its show from the right side in the stand. Does the top tube look like it have been bent into a small downward arc?

That would be the weight of the :eek: BRAKES :eek: causing the aluminum frame to sag! :p

those poor cannondale people. they try so hard but somehow those bikes
still look boring.

those poor cannondale people. they try so hard but somehow those bikes
still look boring.

I agree but still... I'v had evil thoughs concerning a CAAD3 frame Bad Boy... ENO fixie hub and 26" rear wheel... would be fun to try

those poor cannondale people. they try so hard but somehow those bikes
still look boring.

I don't care how they look - I just would never ride them after a mechanic friend of mine tried to repaint one of their frames (yeah I have mentioned this before). He sanded it down and found out that there was a hole in one of the tubes, and they had just filled it with putty then painted the frame. He scrapped the frame.

Can you imagine shipping a frame with holes in it? And covering it up?

No cannondale for me. Ever.

I don't care how they look - I just would never ride them after a mechanic friend of mine tried to repaint one of their frames (yeah I have mentioned this before). He sanded it down and found out that there was a hole in one of the tubes, and they had just filled it with putty then painted the frame. He scrapped the frame.

Can you imagine shipping a frame with holes in it? And covering it up?

No cannondale for me. Ever.

pah..of course you do. you people drool over every fad as long as it is atleast 20 years old ;)

pah..of course you do. you people drool over every fad as long as it is atleast 20 years old ;)

"There are two kinds of fool: One says: "This is old and therefore good". The other says: "This is new and therefore better".

"There are two kinds of fool: One says: "This is old and therefore good". The other says: "This is new and therefore better".

wise words!

wiser words:

"There are two types of people in this world, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig" ---by the man with no name.

I dig that, dude.

pah..of course you do. you people drool over every fad as long as it is atleast 20 years old ;)

Wow. I've never been called 'you people' before... What people are we?

Wait, I thought there was only one of me! Where are the others, and why don't they show up to work when I do? I could use about 2 more of me there, so there could be one of me on every shift making sure they stay in line...

My bike's probably only about 10 years old. Maybe a little older, but I don't know the year...

there is "he who makes sense" and then there is the drunk guy. :)

"There are two kinds of fool..."

of course, the wise man recognizes what is good enough...

there is "he who makes sense" and then there is the drunk guy. :)

I ain't drunken quite yet. And I'm out of whiskey. It'll take another hour on the PBR... :)

I ain't drunken quite yet. And I'm out of whiskey. It'll take another hour on the PBR... :)

Don't the liquor stores open at 10?

Actually, some open at 8. I'm good for the day though, and trying to cut back.

Been sitting outside of Franklin Nicolette Liquours at 8am with some interesting people on several occasions...

But it has been an hour and 13 min... and the PBR aint doing it... Think I'm off on a ride...

See ya all.

An older guy i work with lumped me in with "those people" the other day, when he said "If you haven't rebelled by the time you're twenty, you've got no heart. If you haven't sold out by the time you're thirty, you've got no brains." I summarily issued him a punch in the face. Or i wish i did.

I'm still confused after that, s2sxiii. You mention who 'those people' are nowhere in your reply. As far as I know, I am like no other person I have ever met, so I don't know who I could be lumped in with in... Except for other drunks, I suppose, but even then, I tend to use alchohol as a denominator so I can get down to discourse with normal humans...

Am I normal for riding a brakeless track bike? Or for being as drunken as I am?

Someone please explain, because none of these seems plausible.

I did rebel by the time I was 20, but as far as I know I haven't sold out.... I've just been worn out.

Please help me, I'm so confused... I still don't know what Sohi meant.

HereNT, I lump you in with 'those people' who dont know where they're lumped in. if that helps.

I lump myself in with those who know what sohi meant. or at least those who think they know what sohi meant.

Or maybe I'm just confused. That would lump me in with you. Perhaps "we're" 'those people'.

I'm still confused after that, s2sxiii. You mention who 'those people' are nowhere in your reply. As far as I know, I am like no other person I have ever met, so I don't know who I could be lumped in with in... Except for other drunks, I suppose, but even then, I tend to use alchohol as a denominator so I can get down to discourse with normal humans...
Please help me, I'm so confused... I still don't know what Sohi meant.

he was lumping me in with all "those people" who are in their mid-twenties and still rebelling. I kinda assumed that's who sohi was lumping you with. Much like you, i've been drinking this morning as well. I rarely make sense anyway.

you are all 'those people'...get over it.

you are all 'those people'...get over it.

grrrrrrrrrrrrr!