Hello making 10 post so I can upload photos thanks
08-15-23, 09:32 PM
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I'm the digital klutz but I think you can load them into the BF album and a more savvy BFer will be happy to post them.
And far more important - welcome! Where under your name it says "Newbie' (you can go into your personal page and change that) I've been calling myself "a roadie forever" That's "roadie" as in I ride the road, almost entirely on pavement and exclusively on bikes meant for such roads. It does NOT imply that those miles were/are ridden on gears. In fact, more than half have been on fix gears. I've always had one since my first ride fixed 47 years ago.
I had the bike of my username built with horizontal dropouts just so I could if I ever wanted to. 6 years ago I tried setting it up for mountain logging roads, fixed. With a choice of three very different fixed ratios. Sold! I've stopped doing gravel but the bike has stayed fixed.
And the bike I"m riding in my avatar photo which I'll re-post below was custom built as an ultimate road fix gear. Super-long road style dropout with a twist so I can run any track cog I've ever heard of with messing with chain length. That photo - going up a 2 mile climb. 14% at the photo. Earlier I came down a pass on the 42-12.
This is not to claim I am any better than anyone else out there. I've just been riding fixed so long that 1) I absolutely love it, 2) money is nowhere near as tight as it was 45 years ago and 3) this body doesn't want to climb the hills of 45 years ago in a 42-17. (My old butt doesn't want to descend in that gear either.) But the love of climbing those hills fixed never left. So I embrace the old. Stop, pull out the wrench, flip the wheel. If need be, I carry a chainwhip on the top tube (like you can see in the photo. The tiny cog can just be seen behind and under the tool bag and the Pedros wrench and spanner strapped under the bag.
And far more important - welcome! Where under your name it says "Newbie' (you can go into your personal page and change that) I've been calling myself "a roadie forever" That's "roadie" as in I ride the road, almost entirely on pavement and exclusively on bikes meant for such roads. It does NOT imply that those miles were/are ridden on gears. In fact, more than half have been on fix gears. I've always had one since my first ride fixed 47 years ago.
I had the bike of my username built with horizontal dropouts just so I could if I ever wanted to. 6 years ago I tried setting it up for mountain logging roads, fixed. With a choice of three very different fixed ratios. Sold! I've stopped doing gravel but the bike has stayed fixed.
And the bike I"m riding in my avatar photo which I'll re-post below was custom built as an ultimate road fix gear. Super-long road style dropout with a twist so I can run any track cog I've ever heard of with messing with chain length. That photo - going up a 2 mile climb. 14% at the photo. Earlier I came down a pass on the 42-12.
This is not to claim I am any better than anyone else out there. I've just been riding fixed so long that 1) I absolutely love it, 2) money is nowhere near as tight as it was 45 years ago and 3) this body doesn't want to climb the hills of 45 years ago in a 42-17. (My old butt doesn't want to descend in that gear either.) But the love of climbing those hills fixed never left. So I embrace the old. Stop, pull out the wrench, flip the wheel. If need be, I carry a chainwhip on the top tube (like you can see in the photo. The tiny cog can just be seen behind and under the tool bag and the Pedros wrench and spanner strapped under the bag.
08-16-23, 06:14 AM
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08-16-23, 06:22 AM
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