Originally Posted by
non-fixie
Really nice! Dig those pedals.
And the great thing about these is that they don't take up nearly as much room as one in my size. I mean, if you're going to buy a bike that's too small to ride, you might as well go really small.
As a matter of fact I've joined that trend recently. 30 cents I think I paid for it. Even the brake adjusters work better than on my big bikes.
Years ago a guy that I worked for had a model of a 10 speed bike on his desk that he brought back from overseas. It had real spoked wheels, a working chain, working cables, and dead on realistic tires. It was roughly 10" long and stood on its own kickstand on his desk. I believe it was a model of a Panasonic bike, identical to one he rode back then. The level of detail was astounding. If you rolled the tires over a bit you could see that every spoke was soldered individually. The wheels were spokes left and right just like the real bike. Each wheel was perfectly true, the brake calipers worked, as did the chain and cranks and it had mini toe clips on each pedal.
I'm not sure where he got it or how much he paid for it but he would get very nervous when someone handled it.