High tech fixies?
08-22-04, 11:33 PM
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High tech fixies?
Does anyone have a high tech, light as air fixie? I'm thinking about building up a new bike out of a fairly new cannondale frame. I mostly see lugged steel frame fixies (that's what I have now, well, it's a single speed). Thanks.
08-23-04, 12:10 AM
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I don't have one myself although I can fairly easily convert my roadbike into one (replacable bolt-on dropouts that can be converted from semi-vertical/angled to horizontal) but I have seen a few at the track. Here's a CF track bike that I believe is made by Bicycle Technologies of Australia. I think it's the same frame Dutch cyclist Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel recently rode to gold in the Olympic women's ITT. That's a carbon fibre (I think) Bianchi in back.
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Originally Posted by khuon
I don't have one myself although I can fairly easily convert my roadbike into one (replacable bolt-on dropouts that can be converted from semi-vertical/angled to horizontal) but I have seen a few at the track. Here's a CF track bike that I believe is made by Bicycle Technologies of Australia. I think it's the same frame Dutch cyclist Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel recently rode to gold in the Olympic women's ITT. That's a carbon fibre (I think) Bianchi in back.
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i don't know about hi-tech or light as air, but i have an aluminum iro with a renyolds ouzo pro full carbon fork. it's by far my lightest bike. complete it weighs 17 pounds. i'm getting some triple ti eggbeaters that i'll probably throw on it as well. i think my wheelset adds the most weight. https://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2004/fiedler.htm
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Originally Posted by jimv
Marymoor Velodrome! I'm there (watching) every friday. Do you go often? Do you race there?
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08-23-04, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by labratmatt
Does anyone have a high tech, light as air fixie? I'm thinking about building up a new bike out of a fairly new cannondale frame. I mostly see lugged steel frame fixies (that's what I have now, well, it's a single speed). Thanks.
08-23-04, 10:25 AM
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tru dat. My lugged steel '76 benotto weighed about 40lbs when it was a 10 speed. Totally stripped in fixie mode, right around 20.
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This one...
https://www.usrnull.com/bikes/index.php
https://www.usrnull.com/bikes/index.php
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I did a convert on an old Cannondale frame. The rear wheel is pretty heavy since it was a second hand rim from a shop (but free, which makes it lighter). Dont' know what it weighs, but it's not too heavy at all.
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My buddy has a sick Co-Motion Custom track fixie... Reynolds 853, and worthy of worship...
