Originally Posted by
nlerner
Yeah, those fixie hipsters and their sloping top tubes!
Neal, I always suspected your knickers used to be white…
Roger Musson insists on the hub label, valve hole trick and even though he comes across as a bit of a crank in his book, I do what I’m told.
Quick release lever angles - There’s a friend of ours who tells the story of Francesco Moser demonstrating to him the proper angle, which is pointing aft parallel to the ground. I admit to trying this on some of my racier bikes and it feels right and maybe even I go a little faster.
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