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So I was like biking back from Finch station right. And I was like hey lets go up weldrick instead of crappy Yonge st. So there was these like two high school kids on the sidewalk making out. And I was like YO GET a r00m. So one of there lackeys on a fuji front suspension fairly nice bike goes, YOU get a r00m. I was like, NO Dude KTHX.

Then I was like lets settle this by RACING, he's like OK. At the next intersection he pulls onto the road and like, are we doing this or what. I don't answer him look down at this bigass dial on my handlebars and turn it to 4000W (p0wnz0r level) and go eat it, west side story *****!

As I was powering up my rear wheels starts burning off rubber and he disappears in an envelop of dust. 5 seconds later I was 2km in front of him and doing 50kph up a 10% grade.

kthx.

note some events were dramatized

hee hee hahahahahahahaha :lol:

STEEKER

05-01-06 03:01 PM

what is the bestway to keep the rear wheel on a singlespeed or fixie with vertical drop outs?

operator

05-01-06 03:01 PM

Yeah, my writing is clearly better than his.

TRaffic Jammer

05-01-06 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by STEEKER

what is the bestway to keep the rear wheel on a singlespeed or fixie with vertical drop outs?

A quick release, a bolt? I think i'm not understanding this properly...:o
Operator, you are a much better coder than Gibson EVER will be.

STEEKER

05-01-06 03:06 PM

I have a bolt which locks on with an alen key but the thing losen up to easy

darkmother

05-01-06 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by operator

I don't answer him look down at this bigass dial on my handlebars and turn it to 4000W (p0wnz0r level) and go eat it, west side story *****!

I want one of those, but only if it comes with a mock carbon fiber face.

somnambulant

05-01-06 03:07 PM

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YOU THERE!!!!! You should be smacked for making such a comparison.

bahahaha.. I loved the book too, but I couldn't help myself. :D I actually just re-read it last month.

jeremywhitehorn

05-01-06 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEEKER

what is the bestway to keep the rear wheel on a singlespeed or fixie with vertical drop outs?

if the dropouts are vertical, the axle can't slip forward so a QR should do. not really sure what you're asking tho...

STEEKER

05-01-06 03:21 PM

I will put up a link to the picture that shows I hope what I am trying to ask the lock bolt just does'nt stay tight http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7...ello060023.jpg

operator

05-01-06 03:26 PM

Horizontal

TRaffic Jammer

05-01-06 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEEKER

I have a bolt which locks on with an alen key but the thing losen up to easy

what about a quick release, otta do.

somnambulant

05-01-06 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by operator

Horizontal

+1

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/singlespeed.html
(scroll down about half way to the grid of dropout pictures.. then read the rest :P)

TRaffic Jammer

05-01-06 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by somnambulant

bahahaha.. I loved the book too, but I couldn't help myself. :D I actually just re-read it last month.

For shame.....:p

STEEKER

05-01-06 03:32 PM

well with a quik release I would'nt have to worry about stripping anything unlike the bolt which strips, maybe I could drive my bike over to Carvern bike shop and ask them.

TRaffic Jammer

05-01-06 03:35 PM

How much play do you have on your chain?
Looked at the pic. I don't see why a QR wouldn't work.

STEEKER

05-01-06 03:36 PM

not much right now it does not jump off the ring

TRaffic Jammer

05-01-06 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEEKER

not much right now it does not jump off the ring

As it looks like you are only partially to the back of the drop out, I'd say a QR should do ya.
Crank it down though.

STEEKER

05-01-06 03:53 PM

hard to type the write words and think on theses pain killers but the lock nut striped I got it off and put on a campi QR

eyefloater

05-01-06 04:19 PM

****ing Ryerson admissions office w/ their busy phone line all day that closes half an hour earlier than what their site says! *throws a cop car*

Operator, best story evar.

Edit: So I went out for a ride, stupidly forgot to install a bottle cage on the Lemond and didn't drink a thing until I got back to downtown, proceeded to drink a litre of pop before making a b-line to the gf's bar, wolfed down 2 pints and made my way (thankfully downhill) home. The Sarthe gets a bottle cage tonight and I learned a phlegmy/headachey lesson.

operator

05-01-06 04:23 PM

Check these out lol. Good for beaters? http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/156175584.html

TRaffic Jammer

05-01-06 04:27 PM

you were trying to call ? Silly boy..... that number is there simply for subterfuge.

eyefloater

05-01-06 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer

you were trying to call ? Silly boy..... that number is there simply for subterfuge.

That's why tomorrow I'm showing up in person w/ a pistol grip pump and a squad a rabid lawyers (or just a determined look and a magazine with which to kill time while I wait).

TRaffic Jammer

05-01-06 05:14 PM

bring a book.... might impress

cavit8

05-01-06 05:18 PM

Steeker, with those vertical dropouts quick release should be fine for SS. If you fix it, you'll likely want to go to a solid axle and nuts. Why do are you using a safety skewer anyway? You never get more than ten feet from that bike!

eyefloater

05-01-06 05:19 PM

... on the basis that I respect your opinion, I will follow your advice. But man oh man did I ever want to launch into a "financial institution, not a learning institution" rant about the post secondary school system. I'll save that for another time when people are actually in the mood for a vitriolic diatribe. ;)

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