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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Cracow, Poland
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Bikes: unknown make TT bike, fixed; Romet Sport, gone; titanium Pinarello gone;Colnago with Campy C-Record/Super Record,on it's way; Funny Gianni Motta; Buehler track, Polrad track chrome; titanium MTB on 28'', fixed; Tri Wheeler, fixed
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Three lessons learned:
1) Chain - stay away from cheap sram-10 - it is not intended for shifters, so I thought it will be OK for FG
it is not. Get something more solid.
2) I went with cassette hub with home made fixing adapter, so I can swap the wheels between fix and road bikes - if you do that there will be two issues:
a) stay away from light alloy casette bodies (Gipiemme, Camapgnolo) - the single cog working back and forth will cut through them even if you use wide base cogs. I had to swap to Grimeca steel body, since the swap the drivetrain works perfect.
b) lower guality cogs and casette bodies are frequently eccentric - this would make chain tension vary.
Make sure they are round and true and fit each other - some of the Shimano compatible casette bodies (Cane Creek, American Classic) have slightly different dimensions - make sure your cog and casette body fit snugly together.
3) Fit the front brake! Doing the wheelie on a braked front, when a car passed me to brake just in front of me, left me thinking what would happen if I had just the leg brake AND reflexes to use it instead of the hand brake. If you are the roadie, make sure your brake is at the left hand side - I know it is not fashionable but at least it is where your body expects it to be.