preach

i like em cuz im lazy and they allow me to be precise. Also I think they look neat and it's not like they are very expensive.

that is an awesome interpretation of what i said...all im saying is i like trackends.. dont like chain tugs.. 2nd question.. how often are you all removing your backwheels? tru i ride a different bike on the street and track.. so i don't change gearing.. and i pump my tires on the reg. so get few flats.. i think my wheel comes off once every 2 months or so.. hardly a cause for a special tool...whatreyou chain tuggie people doinng with your back wheels? im being serious.. not a snotty ass

and then there is this guy.. um.. youre in the singlespeed forum.. hating on function is what we do...i save my function over fashion for my road bike.

Well, not being snotty at all either, there are many other causes of flats than just not pumping up to regulation psi.
That said, I'd say my rear wheel comes off maybe once a month. Repairing flats, cleaning, swapping cogs, etc...
To add to that, chain tensioners also prevent chains from loosing tension, which can also happen fairly regularly.

ah.. cleaning.. thats a good one that i fail to do

and i hear you on the pumping...but a floor pump changed my life.. i used to get so many flats.. now they are a rarity

Wait, I'm confused.
What about floor pumps?

pumping my tires to 110 everyday or every other day has pretty much stopped flats for me.. no pinch flats, no glass flats.. if i do get a flat its usually somthing funny like a big nail ...i actually cant remember the last flat i got.. and i bike everywhere...im a believer in floor pumps and using them.

Ah, gotcha.

I like my Tuggnut. Makes tensioning my chain easier, and I actually use the bottle opener feature from time to time.

ill never front on a shorter distance between me and beer... but the chicks love ye olde lighter/key/table-corner opening tricks.. (they don't however dig the teeth trick)

Hahahaha. For twist-off I usually go for the jamming-the-cap-into-the-flesh-of-your-forearm opening technique. Sometimes if I'm going to be inside at a party and I know that in advance, I'll bring the Park BO-1 in the back pocket. Nobody ever expects the Park...

Yep. Me too. I still flip my wheel over from time to time or change chainrings though. I like dem MKS jobbies.

Haw haw. Brotha!

I decided to take chain tension seriously after posters here dissed my snow bike.

for about 5 minutes. It looked tense when I tightened the nuts. Then it looked like it always did.

What would you do without that half a centimetre of wiggle in your chain? Otherwise you'd start rolling backward right away! I even tried buying chain tensioners. They don't fit on road frames, and they don't fit on Surly frames. Call it kismet.

My chainline's off too. With a matching track group! haw haw haw. Where's my camera?

For transport and flip flop - street/track gear

i remove my back wheel as often as i throw my bike into somebody's car or take it on the metronorth on peak hours.

this thread has me lolling, but it's also quite interesting. i won't understand chain tensioners until i see them in action, but i've been considering getting some-- i have no clue how to 'properly' tension a chain and it always has one spot that's looser than the rest... not to mention it's just never as tight as i'd like it.

edit for a stupid question: my floor pump (i just got one last week, thank christ) has an air guage on it, but it only reads how much air is being put into the tire... so if i don't feel like flattening them and starting from empty, how do i know exactly how much air is in there?

Rarely, maybe three times in all so far. However, when I do, it's nice to not have to fight with the bike. I put the wheel on relatively tight, then crank away with my 10mm socket wrench until I get perfect tension and alignment.

I've never seen or heard of a gauge that works that way. What brand? I hate to push spending money, but a good floor pump that works properly is around $20.

I use tensioners because my frame is spaced for them, and my aftermarket locknuts aren't serrated.

Just start pumping. It should start reading once you get a pump in.

man, i thought that was the case. i better not have ended up with a busted gauge... it's a "pedro's" and by technical standards is 'used.' i wonder if i can fix it :\

edit: messed with it some more, i guess it's not really telling me how much air is being put into the tire so much as it is just reading improperly. this is only the second time i've used it... so yeah. both times when the tire has hit the point of exploding and the pump doesn't want to put out anymore air, it has measured ~80psi. so i guess it's just off or something. let me guess: i can't fix this? damn.

That sounds wrong. Either the pump just isn't capable of anything above 80psi (only a problem on some small portable ones I've used) or the gauge is messed up. I'd return it.

Really? Road bikers think anyone who wears anything on their back while riding is a 'Fred', even if it's a camelback which is made for cycling.

I don't care... I happily hammer away on my fixed, wearing a camelback, feeling the love from all sides.

a Fred? what does that mean?

i make fun of camelbacks too..

a fred is the kook of cycling (a kook is the newb of surfing... the abuse keeps rolling..)

do they really make you take off the wheels for metro peak hours? thats a drag...

edit: made for cycling is far from a free pass.. the list of stupid made for cycling items is really really long