wheres_my_beard
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If you have mine near anything solid it virtually instantly picks up a scratch. Not durable at all.
Fixed/SS from Evans on ctw
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If you have mine near anything solid it virtually instantly picks up a scratch. Not durable at all.
Rohloff_Brompton_Rider
Formerly just_fixed
belt drive trek can be easily converted to fixed. currently below £475 (£300 off at evans).
hmm
After dithering backwards and forwards, I rode for a while with a nice young lady on some sort of fixed tearing through Hackney impressively, she loved it she said and it's tipped me back over
to find the Paddywagon 2011 is now bloody discontinued ffs, couple of small sizes left, very annoyed, discontinued in bloody June
I want regular drops, I think, and regular brakes and I don't really want to be spending money changing something, budget init, those requirements really narrow the field down, I'm rather used to steel now too
I very strongly suspect that I won't be fixed ready for DD, nice idea though that I dallied with for all of a second
After dithering backwards and forwards, I rode for a while with a nice young lady on some sort of fixed tearing through Hackney impressively, she loved it she said and it's tipped me back over
to find the Paddywagon 2011 is now bloody discontinued ffs, couple of small sizes left, very annoyed, discontinued in bloody June
I want regular drops, I think, and regular brakes and I don't really want to be spending money changing something, budget init, those requirements really narrow the field down, I'm rather used to steel now too
I very strongly suspect that I won't be fixed ready for DD, nice idea though that I dallied with for all of a second
gawd, first off, the Langster does look ok
second, I upped my budget and looked at everything Evans offer, some I really liked, but what is the obsession with side pull brakes, am i right to think that they're inferior in every single way to what i think of as normal brakes, just pose value?
It's a fair bit of shag to convert that to regular drops levers isn't, anyone care to float a figure?
and I'm used to carbon forks now, are steel forks, for example going to be much rougher? I remember all alu frames to this day, granted a cheapish hybrid
are the odd looking drops trendy track drops and not nice to ride?
and does 'tight geometry' again mean race/track geometry, ie nippy but not as comfy over a distance?
in fairness this is liable to be for commute so less than an hour
second, I upped my budget and looked at everything Evans offer, some I really liked, but what is the obsession with side pull brakes, am i right to think that they're inferior in every single way to what i think of as normal brakes, just pose value?
It's a fair bit of shag to convert that to regular drops levers isn't, anyone care to float a figure?
and I'm used to carbon forks now, are steel forks, for example going to be much rougher? I remember all alu frames to this day, granted a cheapish hybrid
are the odd looking drops trendy track drops and not nice to ride?
and does 'tight geometry' again mean race/track geometry, ie nippy but not as comfy over a distance?
in fairness this is liable to be for commute so less than an hour
Have a look at the Coopers they are British after all. The T100 Sebring has Bull horn bars which I had for a long time on the Bianchi, they work well. Just changed back to drops using an old GB handle bar that I had in the shed new bar tape £10 a pair of brake levers (Shimano Aero with cable under the tape) £20 and reused the brake cable. so cost me £30 but I could have done it for free as I have loads of old Weinmann levers and could have re used the tape. So I suppose what I am saying if you like I could put drops on your nice new bike for you for next to nothing. You would have to ride it over to me though or you could ask Rox and Greg to pick you up 
http://www.cooperbikes.com/road-bikes.html
http://www.cooperbikes.com/road-bikes.html
I had a long look at the Coopers and liked them other than bars, sometimes, and side pull brakes
I'm forgetting that there's no gear changer in there, that's it's just a brake lever, doh, the drops lever would pull as least as much cable as sidepulls I suppose
So take the side pulls off, fit regular brakes and retape, simple as that, thanks for clarifying that for my idiot mind, bar the taping perhaps, I can do that surely
tres droll on the Rox/Greg quip at any other time that now where they're scandalously abandoning riders in need to the mercy of the cold dark Essex/Suffolk countryside
your offer of free is very kind, I like free/next to nothing, but I suspect this one is hopefully too simple and cheap to haul out into Hertfordshire unless there was a bbq and beers or something
I'm forgetting that there's no gear changer in there, that's it's just a brake lever, doh, the drops lever would pull as least as much cable as sidepulls I suppose
So take the side pulls off, fit regular brakes and retape, simple as that, thanks for clarifying that for my idiot mind, bar the taping perhaps, I can do that surely
tres droll on the Rox/Greg quip at any other time that now where they're scandalously abandoning riders in need to the mercy of the cold dark Essex/Suffolk countryside
your offer of free is very kind, I like free/next to nothing, but I suspect this one is hopefully too simple and cheap to haul out into Hertfordshire unless there was a bbq and beers or something
Cooper T100 Spa 2011 Single Speed Road Bike
that's looking very good to me at this moment in time, is there anything not to like there?
deep section rims a bit poncey but I love that frame, steel init, no mention of the rear cog, is 42t chain ring a bit weedy?
ah, 16t rear cog
Domeo
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I ride 42:16 into town from around the corner from you and it pretty does all that I need. I roll along at 18-20mph and can do the odd sprint up to 28/29mph with a rack pack.
I struggle up to Finsbury Park some days if I'm really tired.
I struggle up to Finsbury Park some days if I'm really tired.
As an idea on that gearing here is the cadence to speed figures running 700 x 23's on a 42 x 16 set up
Cadance Speed
90 18.5
100 20.6
110 22.63
120 24.69
130 26.75
I have always been a grinder rather than a spinner and run on a 48 x 16 setup
which seems to work best for me
Cadance Speed
90 18.5
100 20.6
110 22.63
120 24.69
130 26.75
I have always been a grinder rather than a spinner and run on a 48 x 16 setup
which seems to work best for me
cool, thanks, roll at 20 with ability to get up to 28 is all i want, Bow flyover is my 'hill' so not anticipating an hill issues
cheap and easy to change the rear cog i assume
hmm thanks for that 4f, start with that and a cog extra might be the thing, I'm a grinder that tries to do cadence, nearly succeeding, I think my action and smoothness etc etc could use improvement
early finish today to go camping with the beaver scouts (and parents), get after Evans on Monday for test ride
cheap and easy to change the rear cog i assume
hmm thanks for that 4f, start with that and a cog extra might be the thing, I'm a grinder that tries to do cadence, nearly succeeding, I think my action and smoothness etc etc could use improvement
early finish today to go camping with the beaver scouts (and parents), get after Evans on Monday for test ride
Cooper T100 Spa 2011 Single Speed Road Bike
that's looking very good to me at this moment in time, is there anything not to like there?
deep section rims a bit poncey but I love that frame, steel init, no mention of the rear cog, is 42t chain ring a bit weedy?
ah, 16t rear cog
Nice but spend a bit more and get the 531 frame on the T200 and benefit from 44 - 16 gearing and silver chain wheel. I also prefere the Mavic rims on the T200. Should be bomb proof even for you
Tynan in Beaver shock horror
