Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
- Location
- Manchester
Colour? Just frame or with Alpina forks? Hope you specified road forks if you got the forks :P Else you will be riding brakeless 
Tomorrow I go fixed
- Thread starter Jezston
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Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
- Location
- Manchester
They are carbon, so unless they they have a large alu section in them ready to drill then you wont be able to get them drilled. I'd make sure your LBS knows what they are doing and knows the forks well enough! Or you could just request road forks (exactly the same but pre-drilled).
I bought the F&F second hand, not from Dolan - so no choices there.
The forks appear to be eminently drillable - tapping them suggests the carbon is only in the blades themselves - the crown is much more solid. That and it has a panel in the centre of the forks front and back which also suggests drillability.
And I've heard other people have done so with these forks.
Won't be getting LBS to drill them - have a friend who's a materials engineer for Rolls Royce and keen bike fettler, with access to the best equipment for drilling holes in things imaginable. So if anyone can drill a hole in something with confidence it's him!
The forks appear to be eminently drillable - tapping them suggests the carbon is only in the blades themselves - the crown is much more solid. That and it has a panel in the centre of the forks front and back which also suggests drillability.
And I've heard other people have done so with these forks.
Won't be getting LBS to drill them - have a friend who's a materials engineer for Rolls Royce and keen bike fettler, with access to the best equipment for drilling holes in things imaginable. So if anyone can drill a hole in something with confidence it's him!
Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
- Location
- Manchester
Fair enough glad your all set, was just trying to pre-warn you incase you didnt realise.
glad your all set, was just trying to pre-warn you incase you didnt realise.
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
in terms of gearing, the flywheel effect from riding fixed means that you should ride one tooth smaller at the back fixed than you would with a freewheel…
Wrong thread?
But regardless, yes - I ride 48/18 on my 3speed, 48/17 on fixed.
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
Nigel182
Guru
- Location
- Chafford Hundred,Essex
Thanks Tim....
My son reckons it makes me a Hipster...!!!!
My son reckons it makes me a Hipster...!!!!
al-fresco
Growing older but not up...
- Location
- Shropshire
After 800 miles on a fixie I dusted off my geared bike a couple of days ago and it felt really strange! The pedals didn't seem to work right, I had no idea what gear I was in and my brain wouldn't let me coast. On the plus side I was flying up hills that I wouldn't normally look at - due to huge increase in technique and fitness.
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I put my geared bike away when the clocks change at the end of October and use the fixed till the spring, the first few geared rides are very strange.
