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Whooah, that's a big gear. I commuted on 74"-76". On the road bike I'm spinning a 53 x 19 or 17 on the flat - That is one hell of a big gear.
When I was commuting on fixed I used to run a 44 x 18 64.7 inch gear.
Whooah, that's a big gear. I commuted on 74"-76". On the road bike I'm spinning a 53 x 19 or 17 on the flat - That is one hell of a big gear.
Yup.The guy I know has got 20 years on you and he was fine when he was your age. Body abuse may take many years to finally catch up with you, but rest assured one day it will. Lifetime smokers are a prime example, they'll claim to have no ill effects after 40 years of smoking then another 5 years on from that they can't even get to the end of their street without wheezing and stopping to get their breath back!
I might like a higher cadence on fixed but it doesn't work as well with a freehub. When I say my bike is feeling too 'spinny' it is because I have not got that direct connection. If I slow my cadence even slightly the bike starts to freewheel and then I have to rev up my cadence to reengage the pawls. I don't like that feeling.
Yes - my legs are flying round but hardly making any difference to my speed!Sounds like when get above a certain cadence you can't keep up with the pedals, can happen with a fixed and you end up spinning the pedals with no pressure on them.
Where all created differently.The guy I know has got 20 years on you and he was fine when he was your age. Body abuse may take many years to finally catch up with you, but rest assured one day it will. Lifetime smokers are a prime example, they'll claim to have no ill effects after 40 years of smoking then another 5 years on from that they can't even get to the end of their street without wheezing and stopping to get their breath back!
I might like a higher cadence on fixed but it doesn't work as well with a freehub. When I say my bike is feeling too 'spinny' it is because I have not got that direct connection. If I slow my cadence even slightly the bike starts to freewheel and then I have to rev up my cadence to reengage the pawls. I don't like that feeling.
@ColinJ you need to toughen up , flip the back wheel and ride fixed . @dave r and I can do it and we’re both older than you. Don’t take any notice of Mr Gloomy aka @SkipdiverJohn ..Yes - my legs are flying round but hardly making any difference to my speed!
A few things put me off...@ColinJ you need to toughen up , flip the back wheel and ride fixed . @dave r and I can do it and we’re both older than you.
I got put off trying one on the road after a near-death encounter with a fixed gear gym bike!
It had a huge metal flywheel which must have weighed 20+ kg. It gave the bike a great feel when pedalling. I had intended to just warm up on the machine but it felt so good that I did 20+ minutes and built up to a 20 second full-on sprint. "Okay, enough of that, time to switch to the rowing machine..." thought I, and promptly stopped pedalling. It took me a couple of minutes to extract my head from the ceiling of the gym, and another couple of minutes to reattach my legs!
Similar here Dave r, just put the Fixie away (46 x 18, 67.3 inch) after it's winter commuting shift, with one of the road bikes readied today for Monday.My fixed is about to go into hibernation for the summer and the geared bike is about to come out, I ride fixed in winter and gears in summer, before I retired I commuted on fixed, current gearing 42 x 17 to give a 65 inch gear, I'm 70 now and my knee's are fine, its my right hip thats knackered.
My fixed is about to go into hibernation for the summer and the geared bike is about to come out, I ride fixed in winter and gears in summer,
Light weights, my fixed does not get a summer rest .Similar here Dave r, just put the Fixie away (46 x 18, 67.3 inch) after it's winter commuting shift, with one of the road bikes readied today for Monday.
Similar here Dave r, just put the Fixie away (46 x 18, 67.3 inch) after it's winter commuting shift, with one of the road bikes readied today for Monday.
I got my best bike out of hibernation a day early yesterday because I was meeting a friend at the top of a hill that is way too hard for me on my singlespeed bike. (It still felt hard using a 28/30 bottom gear!)I'm planning one more ride before the fixed goes away for the summer, I got my geared bike out of the shed and discovered it needed a new bottom bracket, hollowtec 2 thats been on the bike since 2017 and has done nine and a half thousand miles, still smooth as silk but with free play in it, its on order and I'll change it before I start to use the bike.
🤔 20 years of not lubing my gears what could possibly go wrong .I got my best bike out of hibernation
The bike hadn't been ridden for 6 months and I discovered that the gears had semi-seized front and back. I managed to loosen both by shifting in the opposite direction first and once I had done that a few times the shifts felt fine.
It was odd getting it on both ends at the same time when I have never had the problem on that bike in 20 previous years!
I have definitely used some lube on the gears on that bike in those 2 decades!🤔 20 years of not lubing my gears what could possibly go wrong .
Time to start a “ What lube for my gears “ thread .