Poor man's single speed
09-16-08 | 09:28 PM
#27
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Fire Beats Plague
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 148
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From: Portland
Bikes: Lotus Odyssey
Well, I found my rear wheel. Stock rear flip flop from an 07 bianchi pista. Not high quality, but it was $50 and included a 16tooth cog and lockring.
We'll see how far I get running a 52T chainring and 16T cog. Muscles (or exhaustion), here I come!
We'll see how far I get running a 52T chainring and 16T cog. Muscles (or exhaustion), here I come!
09-17-08 | 03:51 AM
#28
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Joined: Jul 2000
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From: Snowy midwest
I see lots of fixie pretenders with single speed freewheels and only one brake. Perhaps this is just natural selection at work. Fortunately, most of them choose to have just a front brake. Young kids of my generation would have believed that having just a rear brake was safer. 
Let's see, fixie gearing, clipped in, head over heels crash... how many bones do you suppose a fellow could break with that kind of crash? Shall we include broken teeth and torn ACL with those figures?
