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Old 03-05-04 | 07:13 PM
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Jonny B
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From: Norfolk, England

Bikes: Orbea Enol roadie, Fly Micromachine BMX, Fort Track fixed

Basically, proper track frames have steeper angles than normal and short back ends, for quicker handling (beware riding track bikes on the road, they're a bit scary sometimes). They have higher BBs to avoid pedal strike (so most people got for 1 or 2 sizes smaller than their normal road bike). This is a basic description of proper track geometry.

Some have forward-sloping TTs to get the bars down lower for better aero. The idea is taken to the limit with 650 front wheels, to get the front uber-low - see Moser's Hour bike; aka Funny Bike (this is what I consider to be pursuit style, but I may be wrong).

'Street geometry' is simply a bike with normal road geometry (whatever that is ) on a frame that looks like a track frame; it may just have track ends, it may have 120mm rear spacing, it may have no bottle braze-ons, but most will have a rear brake hole (but may not have any cable guides). A good example of this is the Surly Steamroller.

Hope this helped.
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