Collapsible Fixed
07-06-08 | 01:48 PM
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07-06-08 | 01:55 PM
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Couplings. Hardly unique.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
07-06-08 | 05:56 PM
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07-06-08 | 05:57 PM
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07-06-08 | 06:10 PM
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From: YEG
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It's a vintage folder (1973) with a fixed gear conversion but any modern folder could also be converted... the 20 is a bike for the boot / trunk and not much of a suitcase sized bike.
The Twenty is a pretty sweet ride (in any form)... it's smooth, fast, and very comfortable.
07-06-08 | 06:35 PM
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The couplers (called S&S couplers) on the surly can be custom installed on a bike, but I've only seen them on circular cross section tubes.
07-07-08 | 07:08 PM
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I'll have to pretend you really don't know what a Raleigh / Phillip's Twenty is...
And operator that bike looks awesome! Loving the wooden accents! I'd like to get a set of wooden fenders for my bike, but that guy isn't making them anymore
07-08-08 | 12:06 AM
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Some history then...
Raleigh started building the legendary Twenty in 1969 and it came as both a folding and no folding model and was also branded under a number of other names like Phillip's.
Of all the models Raleigh offered, the Twenty was the most widely produced and sold and the non folding versions are far more common.
They are a robust little bike and came equipped with SA three speed hubs and steel everything which made them curb out at 36-37 pounds and as far as folders went, they were suitable for apartment dwellers and fairly easy to throw in the boot of your car.
They are enjoying quite a renaissance among many as they make an excellent platform for customization and with a bit of work and parts swapping can shed a great deal of weight.
Mine has been cponverted to a fixed gear with a flip flop hub, it has alloy BMX wheels and Kenda tyres, alloy seat post, Nitto bars, a Brooks saddle, and retains it's original fenders. This evenig I retapped the bottom bracket and installed a cartridge BB and a beautiful Stronglight crank which further reduced the bikes weight which sits around 26-27 pounds. This compares pretty well to a number of folders that are equipped with internal gear hubs lie the Dahon 7 although few folders can claim to be as tough as a Twenty.
Sheldon Brown built what I would consider to be the finest fixed gear Twenty I have ever seen and has been my inspiration throughout this whole conversion process.
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/raleigh-twenty.html
Raleigh started building the legendary Twenty in 1969 and it came as both a folding and no folding model and was also branded under a number of other names like Phillip's.
Of all the models Raleigh offered, the Twenty was the most widely produced and sold and the non folding versions are far more common.
They are a robust little bike and came equipped with SA three speed hubs and steel everything which made them curb out at 36-37 pounds and as far as folders went, they were suitable for apartment dwellers and fairly easy to throw in the boot of your car.
They are enjoying quite a renaissance among many as they make an excellent platform for customization and with a bit of work and parts swapping can shed a great deal of weight.
Mine has been cponverted to a fixed gear with a flip flop hub, it has alloy BMX wheels and Kenda tyres, alloy seat post, Nitto bars, a Brooks saddle, and retains it's original fenders. This evenig I retapped the bottom bracket and installed a cartridge BB and a beautiful Stronglight crank which further reduced the bikes weight which sits around 26-27 pounds. This compares pretty well to a number of folders that are equipped with internal gear hubs lie the Dahon 7 although few folders can claim to be as tough as a Twenty.
Sheldon Brown built what I would consider to be the finest fixed gear Twenty I have ever seen and has been my inspiration throughout this whole conversion process.
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/raleigh-twenty.html
07-08-08 | 01:40 AM
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From: Auld Blighty
Bikes: Early Cannondale tandem, '99 S&S Frezoni Audax, '65 Moulton Stowaway, '52 Claud Butler, TSR30, Brompton
I run a 1965 drop bar Moulton Stowaway on a 56x13 fixed gear. It's demountable, I'm not sure I'd want a collapsible bike...
