What fixie "tribe" are you?

[Christopher]

browncup
You can upload them to flickr or any other photo website & then link to them here. There's a thread on how to do just that on the forum somewhere but I can't find it.

As for the OP, who cares? At least you're riding, and not stuck in a traffic jam in a car or crammed into a Tube carriage

 

[ShannonBall]

I'm in the **** You And Your Tribes tribe

 

[Tynan]

them fessengers are a scream, so many of them too, took me a long time to realise what was going on

absolutely full on everything, just too bloody clean and smart and too bloody slow

 

[Twenty Inch]

I'm in the **** You And Your Tribes tribe

Hmm.

Hope you were being humourous and slightly ironic. If not that's a really sad post.

 

[GrahamG]

COming back to this one - to increase my 'fraudax' credentials, I've just fitted a knackered old green saddle bag (complete with YHA sticker!) to this:

 

[Pottsy]

I'm currently in the 'no-longer-in-a-fixie-tribe' tribe at the moment as my Pompino was stolen a couple of months ago.

 

[Paul_Smith SRCC]

What fixie “tribe” are you?

According to the latest Cycle magazine, fixie riders can be divided up into 4 tribes: messengers (speaks for itself), fakengers – usually city boys who look like messengers but are clean and have new kit, hipsters from Hoxton and Shoreditch who ride in skinny jeans, and fraudax riders – full mudguards, pannier rack, found on the Dunwich Dynamo and commuting from South London.

I’m definitely in the Fraudax camp, I laughed out loud when I read it, as it’s me to a T.

What do other forum members identify with?

Fraudax and proud


Paul_Smith
www.corridori.co.uk

 

[spandex]

Now that is a nice bike

 

[NickM]

Excellent! Love the Moulton. I hurtled around on one as a kid, great bikes, really great. Love to see pics of the final build.

Well here it is, finally all done - now if only the white stuff would just go away I could test ride it

 

[GrahamG]

That just flat out rules.

 

[Joe24]

Well here it is, finally all done - now if only the white stuff would just go away I could test ride it

WOW!!!
I want one

 

[NickM]

Thank you very much, chaps

Get you down to your local cycle jumble, and you never know...

Mine is a Moulton Mark 3, preferred to the earlier Series 1 and 2 versions for its triangulated rear end. However, it has Series 1 forks, preferred to the Mark 3 ones for their better construction (no pressed ends for me!) and more normal over-locknut dimension. The other crucial part is the Torpedo Duomatic rear hub with its coaster brake, because there's nowhere to mount a caliper brake on an unmodified Mark 3 rear triangle. My front brake is a Tektro R556, but if you used Alex Moulton 17" rims (rather than my bike's 16" ones) a 57mm drop caliper would work fine. Tyres are 349 Stelvios.

The credit for building it belongs mainly to my good friend Andy, who solved all the Raleigh-related difficulties*

Happy hunting!






*mainly to do with the non-standard bottom bracket

 

[Origamist]

Very nice Moulton, shame about the kitchen tiles!

 

[Twenty Inch]

That is lovely. Can I have it when you've finished with it?

 

[NickM]

I'll leave it to you in my will, if you like