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I have a few bikes. A couple of road bikes and a couple of mountain bikes.
What about you? And what do you prefer?
I've only got my fixed gear. My brother just bought a nice Trek and on Saturday I rode it out to the Eaglesham moors which was great. I'm wanting to buy a geared road bike myself some time but I just don't have the cash for it right now being a student.
Oh, I didn't say. I love riding fixed. It's awesome. Skidding rocks my world.
well.....my brother was BIG into bikes, down hill and trials and i used to nick his bike from time to time and cycle into perth which is 12 miles away and then i moved to glasgow and bought an old BSA for £20 which i done up to a ssfw which i currently have and i just love cycling around on it in the city and through the country roads but im selling within the next few days i think because when i was in melbourne i had a shot on an "allegro - track" and it was the change for me, so much fun and more exciting so ive been back in this country now for about two months and just bought a fuji track 08 about an hour ago online, should arrive in a couple of days! cant wait.
gotta own a bmx like! used to be well into it but not so much lately! gonna ride it again when im neh workin so much!
I'm riding my bike with a brake at the moment, bought it with insurance money that i got from writing off my car - building up the confidence to ride it brakeless! Wouldn't be mental enough to ride it in town like that though. Any of you see the article about the couriers in Glasgow, think it was in urban outfitters magazine 'Borne' - nutters - brakeless and helmetless going down Scott street!!
Ohhh, i ordered my new bike tonight, should get it within the next few days and also got myself this BRAKE and a black crossstop lever.
cant wait to get out on it.
My new bike just came!
its all set up and runs like a charm.
Sweet. Let me know if you're up for a ride on Saturday or Sunday. I might bring my bike up to Glasgow.
Cant this weekend sadly, i have a friends birthday from mid day sat and no doubt i will be not too bright on sunday!
the weekend after though im down!
I could do something the weekend after. Sounds good. Maybe we should make that our Stables/Loch Lomond ride. I'll post in the other thread.
I'm a roadie by trade but just building up my first fixed gear bike, nearly there. I have 3 bikes, my Trek 2300 is my pride and joy and goes like stink, I have an old dawes impulse steel racer from the early 90's which is a good little beater if a little rusty and my old Shorter which is getting Fixed, can't wait for that to happen. Pics will go up at some point, oh and I'm based in Edinburgh whilst at uni and London when not.
Fixed only. I do also own a hybrid thing but it's not been out in about 6 months now and I doubt it ever will be again.
i ride a geared kona stuff as well but thats as far as it goes
ride a geared butler milano and a fixed old school Raleigh, currently brakeless, not for long
I don't even ride fixed ;)
I ride ss freewheel, have done for a while and probably always will. I couldnt go back to a geared bike, the only times iv ridden them in the last oh, 5 years has been customers bikes at work, my dads Dahon home from work and last week a tandem around Millport with my bird. The last 2 shouldnt really count as once id found a comfortable gear i left it there. (my girl rides ss frewheel too when she rides)
Iv tried the fixed thing but its no for me. I enjoy freewheeling, its one of the main things that makes cycling better than walking/running, when you get o a descent you get to do eff all. Theres nothing like carving round a corner with ur pedal up, leaning right over and you jus cant get that on a fixed wheel.
One of my mates taught me to skid a fixed wheel recently and iv got a cog on the other side of my hub should i ever wish to play around with it but it'd be purely that, playing. Plus on my new build im running 180mm cranks so id be a bit buggered for corner clearance.
I refuse to go fixed just to "fit in" or "be part of the scene". Anyone that thinks im lame or whatever for riding freewheel is enitled to heir own opinion but im also entiled to not give a fuck.
Rant over.
haha each to their own, if you enjoy freewheel then make the most of what you enjoy....
What annoys me about freewheeling is the click click click. I was trying to find what a pinging noise was the other day and I could only hear it cleanly when I was pedalling. As soon as I freewheeled it just drowned out the sound.
Took a guess as a loose headset and I was lucky. But it drove me crazy all the was home.
I ride fixed and brakeless.
Initially I bought a Langster for the single-speed having never even heard of fixed gear bikes. I was cleaning the back wheel and flip-flopped it over 'for a laugh' and more or less hated it. Later that night I had too little time to change it before going out and so had no choice but to go back out fixed and I hated it a bit more.
The next morning (having had a few cut price bevvies at my local indie flea-pit the night before) I took to the streets having forgotten all about The Change, and duly tanned it along my road. Instictively the legs went to freewheel and boy-oh-boy were the cranks having none of it. It felt like I was being evicted from my own bike!
On Pollockshaws road the cadence was getting too high so I took my feet off the pedals. What a mistak-ah-to-make-ah. The bike had come to life and was was trying to eat my shins, a spinning, lacerating agent of Satan underneath me. I kid you not. Fucking horrendous. Buses were hurtling by with people looking at this big tit with his legs in the air and a gravely concerned look on the chops.
The horror.
The horror.
Then I 'got it' and the rest is history. It's like a religious conversion when it comes and not dissimilar to Keanu Reeves getting into the Matrix, everything suddenly becomes effortless and makes perfect sense. A beautiful thing to behold. So - to wind this foaming-at-the-mouth-bullshit up - if you have flip-flop hub get to it, stick at it, and the fixie Gods will take care of you!
Death before derailleur!
McDuck
Yes
yup I do now, I used to bmx and downhill mtb, but now I only ride fixed and brakeless...
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