notfred

With 34/16 gearing and knobby tires, it's pretty damn slow. At the same time, with road-ish geomentry, it's not particularly suited for off-road riding. If I make the gearing much higher, it can't go up hills in the dirt, and with the current gearing it can't go much faster than 15mph on pavement.

It looks cool though, doesn't it?

sivat

With a bigger chainring and a flipflop hub you could gain the best of both worlds...

Re-Cycle

Why are you putting your bike down? Looks like a great bike for traills.

squeakywheel

I like it. Now all you need is winter weather.

marqueemoon

I guess you'd better send it to me then.

youth

off road fg riding is the ****. i want to do this sort of thing more.

DoshKel

There is never a pointless bike. **** is sweet!

sers

i have my commuter set up as a 40x16 fixed / 40x18 ss flip flop. the 40x18 singlespeed, which is similar to 34x16 is not very useful on the street, but i can see how it would be useful off road.

tylergarrison

is it just me, or are you missing a chainring bolt?

srsly

i cruise at ~16mph around town, do you need to go faster? i've been thinking about getting some beater frame with a more relaxed geometry for when the weather gets crappy. i'd ride that in a second as a winter bike.

Cynikal 

I saw you put it up on CR, what are you doing for the next build?

rocks in head 

try different bars if you're going off-road? I find it very hard to ride off road with drops, but flats are the bomb... or bullhorns.

juvi-kyle

that thing is sick...I am rockin 38 X 21 right now.

notfred

Yeah, I stripped out one of them by accident and had to drill it out. I'm going to go get a new one this afternoon.

Maybe I should try the flip-flob hub thing and do 40/18 with 40/16 or something. It needs higher gearing, yet at the same time needs to keep thee current gearing. I didn't even think about a flip-flop hub.

notfred

I'm getting a redline 9-2-5 as payment for some work I did, and so I figured that I should be able to ride that on the street. I'm also thinking of getting a MTB. If the bike sells, I'll probably get a mountain bike to go along wit hthe redline. If no one buys it, I don't know what I'll do with it.

Surferbruce

last year i watched a dude win the mens elite in a local cyclocross race on a fixed gear, it was one of the most impressive displays of ass kicking i've seen on a bike.
your bike would rule on local fireroad climbs we have here.

notfred

Work is boring as crap right now. I think I'll take it down to the American River Bike Path and ride around in the dirt for an hour or so.

gnatthew

NO LOVE?

At the very least, it's a spinning machine to increase your cadence on the road.
Off road it's a cx handling trainer. Also - try switching the bars for flats as someone mentioned.

The medicine ball of the cycling world?

Hobartlemagne 

it looks like you can mount fenders on it. Im all for calling it a winter/rainstorm bike.

jhowell

my SS mountain bike's running 34x16 (light and fast), my FG MTB's running 36x17 (heavy and fun). both are around 55 inches. both are running 26" wheels & 175mm cranks. if I had your bike with 700c wheels and 170mm cranks, I'd gear it fixed around 60 inches - 34x15. but that's just me. it looks like you have a fun bike there!

notfred

SO I jsut took it down to the American river bike trail, which is a paved trail that runs alongside the American river. However, there's a lot of fireroad/singletrack off the paved path (all of which is illegal, unless you're riding a horse, which nobody ever is, so whatever), which is actually a lot of fun on this bike. I just need to find some more flat-ish singletrack that's not too rocky, cause the bike's a ton of fun on that terrain. Unfortunately, I don't think there's anywhere else around like that to ride.

I did about twelve miles as a break from work though, that was nice. Maybe I'll just leave the bike at work and ride it by the river when I get bored.

my58vw

I likey--- fixed CX bike!

dirtyphotons

<---soooo stoked for cross season

fatbat

sweet bike. i like the burly monostay design of those on-one's. Don't discount the capability of cross geometry off road. I've seen riders go through some pretty rough terrain on those things.

What really helps is higher bars, so that you can sit down in the drops during the rough stuff. Also, some drops with flare, so that you don't wack your wrists.

there's always a compromise in ss gearing. However, with a ff hub, or a couple of cogs on a casette hub, you could have a road and off-road gear on that thing.

chrisgraham81

actually, that one of the only On-Ones ive seen that i liked. i say keep kickin it.