I've decided to become a snob...Conversions with RD hangers suck! Wanna ride fixed gear? Get something with track ends or Chater Lea dropouts....Wanna do it right, make sure it's got eyelets for fenders too and hang a bell on it......if it ain't British and ain't been through a war, something's wrong with it :notamused:

Whew, found my coffee cup....here's a nice blog site for posting your fixie http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/

That's the attitude! Makes my tweed cap itch.:thumb:

Nothing wrong w/ these beauties: http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk...-wheel-gallery

One does need a fork mount carrier for sprint wheels & a Carradice bag:

http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk...-carriers.html

-Bandera

Coffee?
Traitor, real Brit-riders brew up Tea as dark as sin.

-Bandera

41x15. Yes, I know 41 is a weird size but I bought it as part of a misguided attempt to make a magic gear FG road bike conversion. But it is a pretty good quality ring and since it's on my SSCX bike I am not too concerned if it gets chewed up.

Pic?

How about fixies with unused U-brake studs? :lol:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2.../with_rush.jpg

I'm a snob's snob, ride a Pogliaghi Pista on the track... and prefer a pint of bitter or a nice single malt.

Thermionic,

A very purposeful build. You win the practical award.

-Bandera

PS
Nice setter.

Thanks! Sadly, the dog was on short-term loan from my sister. He's a sweetheart though.

Mercian
 

Snobs rejoice! Fortunately there is one builder who knows what's what.

A modern Path Racer can be ordered bespoke, built to your exact specs w/ track ends, mudguard fittings and whatever doo-dads are required. Long live Blighty!

http://www.merciancycles.co.uk/frames/57/frame-builder

"Mercian Cycles began in Derby in 1946 and are still building bespoke lightweight steel frames, by hand, using traditional frame-building methods with one craftsman building each frame from start to finish."

-Bandera

Whether you choose to call them fixed gear or "fixie", are they really such a mark of honor and wisdom and maturity and sophistication?

After all, most of the wheelchair geezers in Wal-Mart could be said to riding fixies...

Yes, but only the British ones...why aren't you following this?

Only if the rider is sufficiently mature, wise & sophisticated to be riding a fixed gear road bike as an essential part of their program.
It is a simple, elegant and efficient style of cycling pared of the excess of modern appliances. Try it.

-Bandera

Pic? Not of the beverages.

"Pogliaghi Pista", it sounds like a like hearty Tuscan meal in a comfy tratoria.

-Bandera

Built one Fixed Gear bike and spent some time riding another. Fixed Gear bicycles are not for me.

I like the option of multiple gearing. I love, absolutely love, the feel of freedom, as I coast down, across, and even up sometimes. Anyway, each to his own and, for what it is worth "dude" or "dudette", I prefer much of the younger generation's language, when compared to Shakespear's old and flowery manner of speaking, and writing. Of course, that is just me.

All that said, each to his own. Personally, I don't criticize the other guy, or gal, for being the way they are.

Well said!

here ya go:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=341426

Turning serious...time to bail

that's exactly what she said the last time I saw her.... how'd you know?

Is that you? OMG!!

C'mon guys, if you don't have anything elitist, snobbish or condescending to say please communicate like the youth of today:

"Like, whoah, ya-know, like fer-sure dude, like whatever."

-Bandera

V_gnome,

No pic of one of your ancient, corroded wobbling Fixed-Brits?

-Bandera

The beater is a converted Peugeot AO8... 52:20 gearing for 70 gear inches on 630:25 tyres.

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikep...8pug%20(4).JPG

"uncompromised by multiple gears or the slacker’s ability to coast."

All my bikes have triple cranksets. If coasting makes me a slacker, slacker I am.

At the bike coop, single speeds and fixies pretty much just sit there until we either price them at a crazy low level or convert them back to multiple geared bikes. And this in a college town. We won't let the volunteers build SS/fixies any more, it's a waste of mechanic time.

Gallic-Fixed, nice but your previous pic (Lenton?) is a real classic.

-Bandera

Riding fixed gear on the road isn't for everyone.
It's been traditionally a training tool for club riders and an activity for the nostalgic and will revert to those no doubt.
I've kept at it for years because I like it but I'm also fitting a triple to my rando-ish build this winter.
Horses for courses as they say.

-Bandera

Your beater is nicer than a lot of riders' pride of the fleet :)

The Italian Job:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8...55c0f157_b.jpg
Untitled by ctjr, on Flickr
(saddle angle has been fixed, was the result of a sucky Campagnolo Super Record seat post).

Same wheels on a mystery frame, shot at an abandoned outdoor track, now part of a (fer gods' sake) trailer park

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6051/6...73cf08a5_b.jpg
P1040941 by ctjr, on Flickr