Sheldon's Latest Madness...
08-25-05 | 08:21 AM
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Yay!11! I has!!!1
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Bikes: Cocaine the white stallion, Custom Witcomb pista, (Being restored) 80's Pogliaghi Track, (destroyed) RAP Round Breeze NJS, Cannondale Jekyll 900, 84/5 Pinarello Montello (all italian)
Sweet God, chain that beast. If Frankenstein's monster rode a fix that'd be it. Sweet build man.
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08-25-05 | 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by LóFarkas
That's one funny machine... I don't really see why one would put the shifter and brake lever on the same side, but hey, the crank is on the wrong side, too!
https://sheldonbrown.com/brakturn
If I put the shifter on the left it would look weird...can't have that! ;-)
Originally Posted by FarHorizon
And I thought I was weird!!! You covered it all! Left hand drive, ridiculously big chain ring, light weight frame with a ton of hanging accessories, goofy handlebars, and to top it all off - (the pièce de résistance) FENDERS! sacré bleu!
Originally Posted by GreenLightNeddy
1) Are your pedals now opposite-threaded? ie LH thread on right, RH thread on left.
2) What happens if you're barrelling along in high gear and you accidentally knock the shift lever into
a lower gear? Does it only shift under light load? Or destroy the hub? Or the rider?
2) What happens if you're barrelling along in high gear and you accidentally knock the shift lever into
a lower gear? Does it only shift under light load? Or destroy the hub? Or the rider?
2) Sturmey-Archer hubs tend to upshift easier than they downshift, this has never happened to me, though the opposite has. The jumps aren't so big anyway--the "C" in "ASC" stands for "Close ratio."
Sheldon "Why Not?" Brown
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08-25-05 | 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by steaktaco
sheldon I thank you as well for introducing me to fixed riding.
nice... I think. I guess it will depend on my mood.
Left hand drive sort of reminds me of an idea I once had — is there any benefit to having a dual drive bike? I mean, I could set up the chainline ok on both sides using identical drive-side cranks, etc., jb weld the cog on the left side (or something) but is there any benefit to this except satisfying curiosity?
nice... I think. I guess it will depend on my mood.
Left hand drive sort of reminds me of an idea I once had — is there any benefit to having a dual drive bike? I mean, I could set up the chainline ok on both sides using identical drive-side cranks, etc., jb weld the cog on the left side (or something) but is there any benefit to this except satisfying curiosity?
The guy who did this did it mainly as a hack.
At the Paris bike show in 1988, I talked with a guy who had a booth full of dual chain bikes like this. Most of them were single speeds, but he had built a 10 speed where the left and right derailers were synchronized to operate both sides from a single shift lever. Looked like a LOT of work, manufacturing backwards derailers and a backwards freewheel body.
He claimed it was "much more efficient" but my opinion was that it was merde du boeuf.
Sheldon "One Is Enough" Brown
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08-25-05 | 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by explody pup
Secon-... errr... Thirded!
08-25-05 | 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Rhody
Sheldon - what type of stem raiser did you use 
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?Sheldon "Don't Try This At Home" Brown
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08-25-05 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by eddiebrannan
why the long exposed cable and pulley system for the gears? isn't that vuilnerable to breakage/crud?
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08-25-05 | 04:36 PM
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should be a centerpiece for the sheldon brown museum. i just looked at all the close ups and it is one cool funky ride. it's an s.brown masterpiece of mad bicycle science for sure. always outside the box.
08-25-05 | 07:09 PM
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I was talking about doing the dual drive fixie earlier this year on the forums but never went ahead and did it... oh well. If you skid the back wheel on a Sturmey ASC do you strip it out?
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08-25-05 | 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Sheldon "Made me a fixed junkie" Brown
Don't all serious cyclists who don't live in the desert have fenders? ;-) Fenders and lights are the accessories that let you tell the serious cyclists from the fair-weather diletanttes!
08-25-05 | 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Erich Zann
I was talking about doing the dual drive fixie earlier this year on the forums but never went ahead and did it... oh well. If you skid the back wheel on a Sturmet ASC do you strip it out?
Sheldon "Got A Good Front Brake" Brown
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08-25-05 | 10:12 PM
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My roomate and I have had conversations about building 3 speed fixies and left hand drive fixies at separate times, but leave it to Sheldon to combine the two and actually go through with it.
Ya know what we also talked about... a 2 wheel drive bike. We still have no idea how we would even begin to try to make it work, but it's an interesting thought.
Ya know what we also talked about... a 2 wheel drive bike. We still have no idea how we would even begin to try to make it work, but it's an interesting thought.
08-26-05 | 02:33 AM
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Don't bother, it exists. KTM, I think. It's crap, of course.
Didn't find the KTM they basically made to promote their 2WD motorcycle they sent to the Dakar Rally, but here's some other 2WD madness: https://www.spicercycles.com/index.cg...0drive%20bikes
Didn't find the KTM they basically made to promote their 2WD motorcycle they sent to the Dakar Rally, but here's some other 2WD madness: https://www.spicercycles.com/index.cg...0drive%20bikes
08-26-05 | 04:13 AM
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