Bike Forums - Your Fixed Gear/SS Photos!

ok, i know i am way late to this, but i have to say it

i love iro's and i have no idea why everyone who has one builds it up to be absolutely hideous. never mind how nice your components are, i'm talking purely about aesthetics.

and i am pumped because HERE IS A DUDE WHO GETS IT! pretty much the only iro someone has posted in recent memory that wasn't gross.

I guess your recent memory doesn't go past this morning, because I posted this yesterday (not mine)
http://eternityfuture.net/__oneclick...ct5823-01.jpgp

evanyc

12-19-06 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by freeskihp

its because if you really jam down on them then they tend to shift out of place

yeah, i'd be really hesitant to skid on an adjustable stem.

andypants

12-19-06 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by john_and_off

i'm talking purely about aesthetics.

I that fork looks wierd. The color is also a little off on that homeless joke.

freebird

12-19-06 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by andypants

homeless joke.

Too much VICE magazine, apparently.

iloveboston

12-19-06 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by lvleph

I especially like that it is sitting right up against a freshly painted wall, probably still drying.

nah man, that wall was painted months ago, we are just too lazy to peel the tape and remove the supplies. and as for the position, i work on this from 8 to 5 and i have no complaints, but to each his own.

HelluvaStella

12-19-06 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by freeskihp

its because if you really jam down on them then they tend to shift out of place

Not mine. I have a Bianchi adjustable that I swapped out from my girl's road bike installed on my mtb. Huge drops, pounding up and down climbs, no worries. Maybe I just got lucky?

DasProfezzional

12-19-06 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by freebird

Too much VICE magazine, apparently.

Hey, man, don't blame VICE. It can't help that it's slowly but steadily slipping into cultural irrelevance.

killsurfcity

12-19-06 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by DasProfezzional

Hey, man, don't blame VICE. It can't help that it's slowly but steadily slipping into cultural irrelevance.

relishing in it's cultural irrelevance is more like it.

fatbat

12-19-06 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by evanyc

yeah, i'd be really hesitant to skid on an adjustable stem.

The good ones have interlocking splines. I was just adjusting the one on my roomate's bike, and was impressed by how solid the system was. I would trust that thing for most any abuse.

If it's just a friction plate, then yeah, they're sketchy.

marqueemoon

12-20-06 12:26 AM

Ok. Finally a better picture of the KHS. It still sucks but I'm just getting the hang of this camera. I just scored the wheels on craigslist today. I'm VERY excited about them. They will probably not stay on this bike for long though.

http://velospace.org/files/khsgasworkssmall.jpg

number18

12-20-06 12:27 AM

i love sloping seattube bikes, holy ****

Serendipper

12-20-06 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by number18

i love sloping seattube bikes, holy ****

You want to say "curved seat tube bikes". A sloping seat tube makes no sense. They are all at some degree of an angle.

[edit] It's bloody two words, too! [edit] (I'm referring to my own mistakes, not you number 18).

number18

12-20-06 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Serendipper

You want to say "curved seattube bikes". A sloping seatube makes no sense. They are all at some degree of an angle.

yes. obviously. **** i need some sleep.

[edit] everyone makes mistakes.

T.C.Rival

12-20-06 03:35 AM

quite squabaling and just get back to the issue at hand... curved seat tube bikes are freakin sweet

i want one so bad

-pete

Serendipper

12-20-06 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by T.C.Rival

quite squabaling and just get back to the issue at hand...
-pete

Actually, squabbling is spelled....oh, nevermind.

redfooj

12-20-06 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by marqueemoon

i want this

DoshKel

12-20-06 08:29 AM

marqueemoon: You have a beautiful bike. One of the only bikes where I can appreciate the use of that salsa stem. I love it!

shapelike

12-20-06 08:38 AM

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Hey, my old KHS turned out pretty nice! Hope it serves you well. And what's up w/ the classy lassy IRO's these days? That Jamie Roy looked amazing.

PS: Thank you, internet.

Mickinator

12-20-06 09:51 AM

Heres my SS Kona Cowan

sorrry about the picture size!!!

http://i17.tinypic.com/43etkdx.jpg

bonechilling

12-20-06 09:57 AM

One time I was leaving the bank and someone had a KHS
Aero locked up to the parking meter. I never saw it again
after that day, which is odd, since there are only a handful
of fixed gear riders around here.

marqueemoon

12-20-06 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by shapelike

Hey, my old KHS turned out pretty nice! Hope it serves you well. And what's up w/ the classy lassy IRO's these days? That Jamie Roy looked amazing.

PS: Thank you, internet.

Thanks, and thank you, internet.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/nancy.jpg

phoenix

12-20-06 02:12 PM

Current, with tt pad.
Near future: Soma Rush fork, possibly Sugino 75s.
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2646/dsc0622pl9.jpg

Current, no tt pad
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/4378/dsc0619ou0.jpg

Current except with Animal Hamilton pedals now
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8464/dscn19823oj.jpg

http://img289.imageshack.us/img289/6027/dscn19776um.jpg

Aeroplane

12-20-06 02:16 PM

I want to beat the crap out of that .243.

jamey

12-20-06 02:16 PM

the black tape job over the stripes are a very nice and simple touch.

Shiznaz

12-20-06 03:36 PM