Thank you Ron, hadnt realized that was my first post in this forum till it posted, shoulda done an intro. I do love cycling for a couple of reasons as we all know in this post, as we age there are not a lot of exercises we can still do that we can take to anerobic levels and I still love to compete.
Hey ol triguy, thanx for your comment. Wow, impressive century riding consistently. Yea on the "solo" riding. The emphasis in my post was staying off the streets unless on a sanctioned ride which has good traffic control.
Most of my bikes are not very light in fact I have never weighed them till I got this fixie put together. Road bike is an ol trek 1000 coming in at 27lbs, hardtail mtn bike is as well 27lbs and my full suspension mtn bike is an even 30lbs. This single speed is at 24lbs right now which is not very light but then I dont really care, just another interesting fact . I am anxious to get it out on our local canal just to see how the gearing works. Prior to this SS on my canal runs I was riding my hardtail all the time in only one gear (44/14). This SS came with 46/16 gearing which puts my gearinches slightly less at the same cadence. Since it is a tad lighter and especially the spinning (tires) weight, I expect to change the rear sprocket to 15 which will put my gearinches slightly more than my hardtail. Just good ol fun.
cheers,
willie