Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Cycle ball

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shinyandfree
04-23-10, 10:06 AM
http://gomeansgo.org/2010/04/17/cycle-ball/

There ya go.

Yo!
04-23-10, 10:20 AM
That just blew my mind

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amiexploited
04-23-10, 10:25 AM
Cool, but isn't this a repost?

shinyandfree
04-23-10, 10:35 AM
Is it? I just ran a search and didn't see anything. If so, my mistake.
riot2003
04-23-10, 12:53 PM
woah.... srsly... woah.
wearyourtruth
04-23-10, 01:10 PM
those of us who have been around a while have seen that before, it's reposted, but every year or so. it's right behind those artistic gymnastic cycling girls.

europe has a lot of cool sports that americans don't seem to give a **** about.
shinyandfree
04-23-10, 01:20 PM
Like soccer.
F4UX3/2
04-23-10, 02:13 PM
they has shaved legs and their bull horns are mounted rly weird
antiaverage
04-23-10, 03:17 PM
It's one of the two classic indoor cycling competitions sanctioned by the UCI.

Cycle Ball and Indoor Cycling can be read about straight from the UCI site:
http://oldsite.uci.ch/english/indoor/index.htm
Squirrelli
04-23-10, 03:20 PM
Very low gearing...but pretty damn rad...
antiaverage
04-23-10, 03:22 PM
Very low gearing...but pretty damn rad...

Of course. They're no going for speed as much as stability and control.
Squirrelli
04-23-10, 03:27 PM
Of course. They're no going for speed as much as stability and control.
Yea I figured...much like polo.
antiaverage
04-23-10, 03:32 PM
Yea I figured...much like polo.

Hah, so true. The fixie I use for bike polo has a flip-flop hub running fixed-fixed with the polo side having a much larger cog.
powers2b
04-23-10, 04:30 PM
Hah, so true. The fixie I use for bike polo has a flip-flop hub running fixed-fixed with the polo side having a much larger cog.

So you have to carry around an extra chain??

Enjoy
antiaverage
04-23-10, 05:16 PM
So you have to carry around an extra chain??

Enjoy

Yep, it's not exactly a heavy or difficult piece of extra equipment to tote...

I ride the bike to the court, flip the rear wheel and swap chains. The master links make this a pretty simple process. It works for me.