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#7476
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#7477
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This is all pretty amazing... it reminds me of when I was in High School back in the 60's (ya... I'm that old) Back then, cars were custom-izable. With a bit of mechanical intuition you could work on a car, change it, soop it up, etc. Today, you need an engineering degree, just to get into a dash panel is a puzzle. Maybe bicycle modification is the modern answer for what we used to do with cars? Back then I had a 55 Chevy, a 56, a 57 Bellair.. I did all sorts of mods to them. Installed a Hurst shifter on the floor instead of the column mount, put lifters and different shocks on them, changed the wheels to chromed wide ones with slicks in the rear, replaced the carburetor on the V8 with a 4-barrel, added dual exhaust headers with glass pack mufflers, etc., etc. And, it was all done on not that much expense, unlike car modifications today. The only limitation I can see today is taking a new girlfriend out on a date? But, then again, there are no drive in movies to go to anyway, so maybe that isn't so important...
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I would personally install a front brake ('cause chain braking = you're gonna have a scar otherwise). Doesn't mean it's not sexy.
I think he complimented you. Wear your hipster badge with pride.
Still lookin' good. For what it's worth: I've personally had slightly better luck with these than their more popular conty counterparts:
https://bontrager.com/model/00443
I ride on roads with a TON of glass and these have done me right. Anyway, something to try if you care to (conty's have done me right as well... just not quite as right in my experience... haha).
I see plenty of people riding around every day with no brakes and they somehow survive. Main issue with it as far as I can see is: you get in a crash and you're screwed as far as the law is concerned ('cause you have no brakes). It might be silly to you but it also might make sense to some.
I think he complimented you. Wear your hipster badge with pride.
https://bontrager.com/model/00443
I ride on roads with a TON of glass and these have done me right. Anyway, something to try if you care to (conty's have done me right as well... just not quite as right in my experience... haha).
I see plenty of people riding around every day with no brakes and they somehow survive. Main issue with it as far as I can see is: you get in a crash and you're screwed as far as the law is concerned ('cause you have no brakes). It might be silly to you but it also might make sense to some.
#7479
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I see plenty of people riding around every day with no brakes and they somehow survive. Main issue with it as far as I can see is: you get in a crash and you're screwed as far as the law is concerned ('cause you have no brakes). It might be silly to you but it also might make sense to some.
You can stop a bicycle faster with a fixed gear drivetrain and a front brake than you can with just a fixed gear drivetrain. Removing the brake just reduces the function of the bicycle, which is to be a vehicle that can efficiently and safely transport the user from point A to B (among other things: exciting, exercising, etc...). It needs to go when you need it to, and it needs to stop when you need it to.
Alien abduction, polytheism, healing crystals, demonic possession, and Reaganomics makes sense to some. How does removing the brakes from a bike make sense? I mean, it certainly makes fashion sense (bike looks cleaner, all the hipsters are doing it, blah blah blah...), but I don't recognize fashion as a reason to reduce function.
The only issue you see is legal liability in the case of a collision? Gee, if only there was some way to provide a safety cushion against collisions...
#7480
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Deshi: Ya, I know, I'm a dunce, but I've never seen a bike with no brakes, or maybe I'm not seeing something.. is this a single speed and you use your legs to stop it? Why would you want that? No disrespect, I'm probably just not familiar with all this. The bike looks really nice, BTW.
Thanks,
Thanks,
I would personally install a front brake ('cause chain braking = you're gonna have a scar otherwise). Doesn't mean it's not sexy.
I think he complimented you. Wear your hipster badge with pride.
Still lookin' good. For what it's worth: I've personally had slightly better luck with these than their more popular conty counterparts:
https://bontrager.com/model/00443
I ride on roads with a TON of glass and these have done me right. Anyway, something to try if you care to (conty's have done me right as well... just not quite as right in my experience... haha).
I see plenty of people riding around every day with no brakes and they somehow survive. Main issue with it as far as I can see is: you get in a crash and you're screwed as far as the law is concerned ('cause you have no brakes). It might be silly to you but it also might make sense to some.
I think he complimented you. Wear your hipster badge with pride.
Still lookin' good. For what it's worth: I've personally had slightly better luck with these than their more popular conty counterparts:
https://bontrager.com/model/00443
I ride on roads with a TON of glass and these have done me right. Anyway, something to try if you care to (conty's have done me right as well... just not quite as right in my experience... haha).
I see plenty of people riding around every day with no brakes and they somehow survive. Main issue with it as far as I can see is: you get in a crash and you're screwed as far as the law is concerned ('cause you have no brakes). It might be silly to you but it also might make sense to some.
As for the tires, I didnt really just buy them. I bought these tires to replace and older set that did me very well and ended up selling the bike I was gonna put them on so the tires were in the top of my closet for a little bit. I will try these out in AZ when I head down and if they do not meet my expectations, I might look into the Bontragers.
Thanks for the kind words on the bike.
#7481
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I did not post my bike here for your approval. You dont like it, great. Dont tell me I am doing for fashion though because that is not the reason.
#7482
Bike ≠ Car ≠ Ped.
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Plenty of people riding around on bikes with just a coaster brake and nothing in front. Fixed gears offer a lot more modulation and control than a coaster brake.
#7484
Get on your bikes & ride!
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Maiden voyage into work today on this: (the only reason I didn't mind coming in on a Saturday)
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#7486
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Let me guess, you were also into fixies before they became cool, yes?
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Well, since it was my first time riding it today, I don't have much perspective. So far, so good. Built up very nicely with no problems. They redid the rear disc brake mount so no issues getting the rack and fenders to fit. Did have to do a little bending on the front fender stays to clear the front disc brake. One thing that bugs me is the unused top tube cable stops for the rear canti brakes. I think they should have left them and the rest of the rear canti braze-ons off for a cleaner look. I mean they have a canti version of the frame if you want to run cantis. Also it looks very purple in person, so if that is going to bother you, I would try something else.
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I have my reasons for riding this bike. There is no reason in trying to explain this to you because you are so narrow minded in thinking every person that rides a track bike is a hipster wannabe fashionista.
Take your sour attitude elsewhere.
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I have my reasons for riding this bike. There is no reason in trying to explain this to you because you are so narrow minded in thinking every person that rides a track bike is a hipster wannabe fashionista.
Fixed gear = simple, practical, enjoyable cycling style that happens to be trendy right now. Brakeless = closed-course specific race cycling style that happens to be trendy right now.
Beyond its trendiness, the only explanations I've ever heard for running brakeless are that it "looks cleaner" (form over function, fashion above sense), or that it "heightens awareness", presumably through increased risk (and just think what levels of awareness are achievable by high speed sidewalk cyclists riding counterflow to traffic, what Zen masters of cycling they must be).
Oh, and "this bike won't take a brake." Which is just silly, since you could simply choose a different bike to ride in traffic, instead of marrying yourself to one ill-designed for it.
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I really dont feel like arguing with you. I dont feel the need to explain myself any further. Thank you for your opinion. Have a nice day.
#7491
Bicycle Repair Man !!!
With that being said, coaster equipped bikes do not stop nearly as quickly as bikes that have front brakes and neither do people who ride fixed with no brakes.
#7492
Bike ≠ Car ≠ Ped.
#7493
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No Brakes = Hipster???
Hipster is a slang term that first appeared in the 1940s, and was revived in the 1990s and 2000s to describe types of young, recently settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with interests in non-mainstream fashion and culture, particularly indie rock, independent film, magazines such as Vice and Clash, and websites like Pitchfork Media.[1] In some contexts, hipsters are also referred to as scenesters.[2]
"Hipster" has been used in sometimes contradictory ways, making it difficult to precisely define "hipster culture" because it is a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior[s]."[1] One commentator argues that "hipsterism fetishizes the authentic" elements of all of the "fringe movements of the postwar era—beat, hippie, punk, even grunge," and draws on the "cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity", and "regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity."[3] Others, like Arsel and Thompson, argue that hipster is a cultural mythology, crystallization of a mass mediated stereotype generated to understand, categorize and marketize the indie consumer culture rather than an objectified group of people.[4]
"Hipster" has been used in sometimes contradictory ways, making it difficult to precisely define "hipster culture" because it is a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior[s]."[1] One commentator argues that "hipsterism fetishizes the authentic" elements of all of the "fringe movements of the postwar era—beat, hippie, punk, even grunge," and draws on the "cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity", and "regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity."[3] Others, like Arsel and Thompson, argue that hipster is a cultural mythology, crystallization of a mass mediated stereotype generated to understand, categorize and marketize the indie consumer culture rather than an objectified group of people.[4]
#7494
Bike ≠ Car ≠ Ped.
^^^^ What I like is that a noncomformist counterculture has a uniform.
/end my thread hijack
/end my thread hijack
#7495
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my commuters...
one w brakes, one without
i'm w/ deshi on the brakes
one w brakes, one without
i'm w/ deshi on the brakes
#7497
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thanks - check out my latest conversion still in progress (much to many roadies' chagrin)
...waiting on a new rear rim
...waiting on a new rear rim
#7498
This bike is cat approved
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Nice, I like that blue and yellow scheme. What Lemond frame is that? This makes me wonder what I will end up doing with my Victoire when the Ultegra shifters wear out.
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2001 Zurich, mine's was built up w/ cheaper tiagara components and the rear shifter recently broke, perfect excuse to convert.
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...on-in-progress
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...on-in-progress
#7500
i'll probably break it
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people need to get over the brakeless = fashion thing. i mean, we get it, you dont like the trendy, ignorant youth that frequent YOUR coffeeshop. how dare they ride a bicycle like you do... would you rather they park their lime green civics out front and play loud bass-heavy music and rev their cars too 8000rpm? thats what kids did ten years ago when i was younger. im fine with them riding bikes now...
besides, 'hipsters' ride fully rigid SS 29ers now anyway. dont you know?