"Come up to the lab, and see what's on the slab!"
(started new thread to reflect new year acquisition) My new, old bike that I'm working on now (original CL list pics):

Repost of my newest and favorite fixed gear bike:


2022 All City Big Block with Retrogression wheels.

My favorite fixed-gear, now wearing 32mm Paselas and new 45mm SKS mudguards, with 22 years on the road this month.

First pizza pickup of the year!

Here was an idea I brought to life, can't wait for the weather to get nicer to ride it. A 90's memphis design style bike I stickered and its all reflective.



basket added



gotta love this new bike light too!

Still gotta put the rack on and get the proper height of head set spacers, but otherwise finished

please post a picture of you riding this setup. I don’t understand the bar riding positions.
Thanks

Are we talking the bar sweep and rise, or the Ergon GP5 bar ends? The use of the Fuji stem? My fuzzy concept was to make a single speed version of my all-rounder:



The bar ends allow me to ride more erect (my back loves it more), change hand positions (ofc), and pull the hills around here easier. The stem stretches me out a little (Kedzie wheel base is a little compressed) and is what I had. Once I get the head stack worked out, and riding experience, may change it all. Though I've rode these types and positions for years. Really got no one to take pics of me riding, sorry.

before and after the swap to flat bars. i'll probably be going back and forth between the two

Have you considered flattening out your saddle, or a different saddle with a shorter nose? That downward angle is a fit issue.

yeah, i turned it a little too much last time i adjusted it. it was like half a degree over parallel to the ground i wanted it about a degree under, eyeballed it to 15° (wow im a natural) and didnt fix it. its still fine for me to ride so i havent fixed it yet, but i think this galvanized me into fixing it now.

Allllmost finished. Gonna play with stem length and chain rings (at the co op) this Saturday

My 1981 "LUDERS" Track bike made in Germany.

….ish


swapped to a longer taller stem. Got out for a meltdown spin before things froze back over.

From a lovely spin yesterday afternoon.

My old Iver Johnson "SPECIAL RACER" - about 1920 (now sold)

If you are riding it - please, please put some plugs in those bars. I have crashed, hitting both bar ends hard with my thighs, leaving deep 1" circular bruises. If I'd not had plugs, I'd have been in the ER with deep cookie cutter wounds. (Put in old corks or whatever. I don't care. Just something!)

…. man, you can run out of things to do.

maiden voyage on the fixed & fat SteamRoller 650b wheelset.

I’ll post more details in the Advice & Condescend thread

I'd been planning to wait until I got back out on the road - 6/1 planned goal - to post my baby's pic but somewhere around this subforum I read some talk about old-age riding so I figured WTF. Between a couple of surgeries I was forced indoors but still ride fixed & when I get healed enough - sw8 phiksie scene here I come








Ummmm - Titanium

Somewhere in the netherlands between Lilburn and Duluth, GA.
Freeman Lake, Vulcan Quarry heap in background (where some of Walking Dead was filmed).
Sweetly running through the flats and hills at 42/18 (2.33 ratio).

My new to me 1986 Paramount track frame got to go for it's first ride as a road bike yesterday afternoon, nice day but with winds of 25, gusting higher. Ride going out was into the wind, coming back it was smiles all the way.

This bike is up and running but a lot of the gear is just my in house stock of SS parts, I have a Dura Ace Pista crank coming, another seat, some top tube brake cables clamps and a set of wheels being built.

What a nice bike! But I say this about most bikes but this one is nice and I love the looks. Before the comments: yes, they are off road pedals, that's what I ride but I am looking at some lighter versions, no, I am not doing any stem slamming or bar lowering, at 76 with bad shoulders (what life long bike rider doesn't have bad shoulders?) and misc. other crap this is about as low as I can sustain. I did get a 12 mile ride in, It had just been assembled so there were a few things left loose but I did bring my multi tool.

The blue masking tape is for a little stability on the nylon ties holding the brake cable in place. BTW the carbon fork I just put on has made this track frame behave nicely, it was a toe grabbing twitchy little ***** with the stock fork, and this is way less weight of the stock fork as well.

My old 1897 Cleveland Model #29 Factory Racer. (now sold)

My old 1899 Eagle "QUAD STAY" Racer (now sold)