@ 1:17 in the afternoon on April 12th, 2009...........just sayin!

and then there will be a ton of folks lookin' for those derailleurs, freewheels, etc. that they stashed in the garage...

But on a side note you'll be able to score crazy amounts of deep V's in all colors under the rainbow at the thrift stores...and ol' ladies will use chrome bags to totee their groceries...

ahhhh! the end of an era........

give me your vivalo

lol nice

that way i wont be a noob poser but an og hahahahah

Lol I'm ahead of the curve. Recently I completely quit riding my fixie because my knee had got inflamed and swollen from mashing too hard. After that I bought two used road bikes to ride. Ahh gears are so nice, and spinning at low gear is so nice, and coasting is so nice too. Also well tuned, and oiled road bike is as quiet as a fixie. Plus energy is used more efficiently in a road bike than fixie. Think of someone on a road bike with cadence of 90 going 20mph while a fixie needs to spin like 130 or something to go that fast.

But other people may have own reasons for fixie riding. Like in a city, I think a fixie is more safer than road bike. You are more aware of surrounds with fixed and can control your speed better (accelerate faster when light turns green). Whereas on a road bike you gotta do all that shifting and to slow down you gotta use your hands to hold the brake. I live where traffic is low and streets are wide so I decided a road bike was most efficient way to travel.

But now those maintenance costs are going to bog me down. On top of new tubes, tires, chains, i need to get brake pads, deraileur adjustments. Also if I ever crash, it will kaput be for my deraileurs, whereas on a fixed u just need to readjust the stem.

I remember reading threads like this back in 2004 or so.

And derailleurs really aren't that hard to deal with. They also aren't made of glass.

Its right around my B-day too, I'll be able to score all you poser's frames on the cheap!

I rode a geared mountian bike at the beginning of the semester, until on day while shifting, the bottom gear thing got stuck in the spokes and got ripped in half. Then I got a fixed gear.

I refuse to listen to the advice of anyone who refers to a derailleur as a "bottom gear thing."

I know it is a derailleur. I just didn't know what to call the small cog that guides the chain at the end of it.

Also, did I give anyone advice in that post? I think not. Go back to your hole.

It's called a jockey pulley.

Thanks man, so I guess it was actually the Idler Pully that got caught in the spokes.

You're talking about the lower pulley?

Either way, derailleurs don't just decide to commit suicide and jump into the spokes. If it was really a JRA situation, then your bike was seriously neglected and you probably shouldn't be trusted with a fixed gear either.

That is common with mis-adjusted RD's. It is cured by adjusting the limit screws so the RD can't go into the spokes.

Yeah. Cynikal said it in a nice way.

I'm grumpy. I'm going somewhere else now.

Another teaching moment lost...

Bye! Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!


I know getting ride of my 5 lbs brakes was a breath of fresh air. Having a 15 pound monster wrapped around a chain must be more of a hazard than riding without brakes.

Absolutely it's dangerous. When you've got 20 pounds of components on an 18 pound road bike, removing those components would briefly change your bike's weight to negative -2 pounds, a proposition almost as terrifying as the fact that it would immediately afterwards blink out of existence in some kind of space time paradox type event.

Definately dangerous stuff and most surely the most logical argument I've heard yet for the safety of riding without brakes....




I got a fixed gear because I wanted a good bike but can't afford a decent road bike. Since 700 CAD does not buy a particularly reliable road bike but does buy a quality single speed/fixed gear, the choice was fairly straightforward for me.

Said the Fixed Gear: "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

The frightening thought: if the fixed gear fad dies, what will take its place?

Coaster brakes on 700c wheels.
Embrace the future.

No, more like internal coaster brake 8-speed 650B wheels.

Or 3-speed fixed Aerospokes.

zero gear bikes....no chain, no brakes, all zen

I think the replacement for the fixed gear will be old three speed columbia type bikes with wire baskets fore and aft, and neon streamers from the grips...also huge bell bottoms..and platform shoes!

Hellz I can dream can't I?

cx

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