A new trend with fakengers

[joebe]

Come on, own up, who's bought an off the shelf fixie with coloured chain and matching rims. I saw 4 this morning, there seems to be more and more of them appearing now the sun's out. It's not big and it's not clever.

 

[Rhys_Po]

Unipack - www.unipackuk.co.uk piling them high and selling them cheap.

Cheap, heavy and nasty.

The Apollo of the Fixed Gear world.

 

[karlos_the_jackal]

they are awful colours on those ones. But saying that see a nice tifosi dayglow yellow

 

[karlos_the_jackal]

And to be honest a folding buike at £80! on the unipack site

 

[yello]

Sounds very bling or something. Each to their own etc.

 

[mm101]

I really don't get fixed gear at all. Why when you can freewheel? Is like choosing a cassette playing walkman over an Mp3.

 

[Rhys_Po]

I really don't get fixed gear at all. Why when you can freewheel?

See you on page 53.

 

[leoc]

Sorry to point to another place, but it sounds like these:

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread5205.html

 

[mm101]

See you on page 53.

I genuinely don't get them. I remember the first toy bike i had as a kid was fixed and the feeling of how great it was to get my first proper bike with a freewheel. Each to their own though. Am curious to learn why people favour them.

 

[MajorMantra]

Unipack - www.unipackuk.co.uk piling them high and selling them cheap.

Cheap, heavy and nasty.

The Apollo of the Fixed Gear world.

I'd say they are even worse than Apollos.

Matthew

 

[MajorMantra]

I genuinely don't get them. I remember the first toy bike i had as a kid was fixed and the feeling of how great it was to get my first proper bike with a freewheel. Each to their own though. Am curious to learn why people favour them.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html

Matthew

 

[Ben M]

Unipack - www.unipackuk.co.uk piling them high and selling them cheap.

Cheap, heavy and nasty.

The Apollo of the Fixed Gear world.

what about the carrera?

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/...uctId_551205_langId_-1_categoryId_165534#dtab

 

[upsidedown]

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html

Matthew

"A fixed-gear bike is considerably lighter than a multi-speed bike of comparable quality, due to the abscence of the rear brake,derailers, shift levers, and extra sprockets."



Presumably that becomes a benefit when you are carrying it's mangled remains home after extracting it from beneath a van, or other calamity where brakes would have helped.

 

[amnezia]

"A fixed-gear bike is considerably lighter than a multi-speed bike of comparable quality, due to the abscence of the rear brake,derailers, shift levers, and extra sprockets."



Presumably that becomes a benefit when you are carrying it's mangled remains home after extracting it from beneath a van, or other calamity where brakes would have helped.

they have front brakes and the fixed hub acts as a rear brake.

 

[joebe]

they have front brakes and the fixed hub acts as a rear brake.

Yeah, because a skid stop is just as effective as a brake....

ding ding, round one.