Fixed/Single Speed Commuting

EKE_38BPM

iPete wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Oh yeah, track standing is the acme of cool and shows the rest of the world just how great you are.

I'm still working on one handed and hopefully no handed soon, then no handed sipping a double espresso.

Forget cool or what others think, completing a 20 mile NFD commute (no foot down) is still one of my greatest achievements, level par with Ironman.

NFD?!? Pah! What you mean is FUC (Foot Up Commute).

elbowloh

iPete wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Oh yeah, track standing is the acme of cool and shows the rest of the world just how great you are.

I'm still working on one handed and hopefully no handed soon, then no handed sipping a double espresso.

Forget cool or what others think, completing a 20 mile NFD commute (no foot down) is still one of my greatest achievements, level par with Ironman.

I went on this organised ride thing once round London (not critical mass) and there was this girl on a bmx who did this track (not)standing thing at lights. Still seated, one foot on the pedal, bars pushed to one side and the other foot on the tread of the front wheel/tyre using little movements to balance (in a track standing type way).

Coolest thing I ever saw

ddraver

EKE_38BPM wrote:

As a one off forshitsandgiggles, I get it, but regularly just seems stupid to me, so I come back to my original question:Why do you want to do skids?

Well you must be great fun at parties....

Why not..? s'a larf innit

goonz

elbowloh wrote:

iPete wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Oh yeah, track standing is the acme of cool and shows the rest of the world just how great you are.

I'm still working on one handed and hopefully no handed soon, then no handed sipping a double espresso.

Forget cool or what others think, completing a 20 mile NFD commute (no foot down) is still one of my greatest achievements, level par with Ironman.

I went on this organised ride thing once round London (not critical mass) and there was this girl on a bmx who did this track (not)standing thing at lights. Still seated, one foot on the pedal, bars pushed to one side and the other foot on the tread of the front wheel/tyre using little movements to balance (in a track standing type way).

Coolest thing I ever saw

I've seen a guy seated both hands in pockets trackstanding, still yours beats it.

elbowloh

goonz wrote:

elbowloh wrote:

iPete wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Oh yeah, track standing is the acme of cool and shows the rest of the world just how great you are.

I'm still working on one handed and hopefully no handed soon, then no handed sipping a double espresso.

Forget cool or what others think, completing a 20 mile NFD commute (no foot down) is still one of my greatest achievements, level par with Ironman.

I went on this organised ride thing once round London (not critical mass) and there was this girl on a bmx who did this track (not)standing thing at lights. Still seated, one foot on the pedal, bars pushed to one side and the other foot on the tread of the front wheel/tyre using little movements to balance (in a track standing type way).

Coolest thing I ever saw

I've seen a guy seated both hands in pockets trackstanding, still yours beats it.

Totally, she could do it no handed too, arms crossed.

I think I want to marry her.

itboffin

I saw a fixie rider cycling under the Barbican eating from a takeaway tub with a fork, mental shite given the traffic around there at lunchtime he might drop some

redvee

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Oh yeah, track standing is the acme of cool and shows the rest of the world just how great you are.

I popped out to get some milk and had to walk past a set of TLs, at the red light was a school girl on her full suss MTB holding a trackstand for the duration of the red light, kudos to her.

ddraver

Man not even a whole week of fixed commuting and my legs are knackered!!

EKE_38BPM

ddraver wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

As a one off forshitsandgiggles, I get it, but regularly just seems stupid to me, so I come back to my original question:Why do you want to do skids?

Well you must be great fun at parties....

Why not..? s'a larf innit

For some reason I can't link to 2 minutes 8 seconds but this video has the longest skid I've ever seen.

dhope

EKE_38BPM wrote:

ddraver wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

As a one off forshitsandgiggles, I get it, but regularly just seems stupid to me, so I come back to my original question:Why do you want to do skids?

Well you must be great fun at parties....

Why not..? s'a larf innit

For some reason I can't link to 2 minutes 8 seconds but this video has the longest skid I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOjx6qI2sIk&t=128

ddraver

Do you guys use clipless pedals or normal shoes with straps?

I was hoping to be able to use normal shoes a bit more often, and especially not my really rather expensive bike shoes.

dhope

Clipless personally, though SPD on the fixed rather than SPD-SL on the road bike.

EKE_38BPM

dhope wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

ddraver wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

As a one off forshitsandgiggles, I get it, but regularly just seems stupid to me, so I come back to my original question:Why do you want to do skids?

Well you must be great fun at parties....

Why not..? s'a larf innit

For some reason I can't link to 2 minutes 8 seconds but this video has the longest skid I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOjx6qI2sIk&t=128

That link still goes to the beginning of the video, but I'm on an iPad, not that it should make a difference.

ddraver wrote:

Do you guys use clipless pedals or normal shoes with straps?

I was hoping to be able to use normal shoes a bit more often, and especially not my really rather expensive bike shoes.

dhope wrote:

Clipless personally, though SPD on the fixed rather than SPD-SL on the road bike.

Snap. But I don't have a speedy road bike at the moment (or a fixie in working order, if I'm honest), so SPDs on both.

ddraver

Do you just use normal Mtb shoes or thems fashionable things like Chrome or these things - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/dzr- ... prod119737

dhope

ddraver wrote:

Do you just use normal Mtb shoes or thems fashionable things like Chrome or these things - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/dzr- ... prod119737

Just normal MTB
http://road.cc/content/review/4791-spec ... t-mtb-shoe
Great shoes, prefer them to Sidi's I have to be honest. Easy enough to walk about in a bit too.

ddraver

If you re hitting the town or going out to the Box Social, or whatever it is kids do these days, do you just wear those or change or..?

goonz

Spd on fixed and ss and speedplays on road but I'm tempted to change all to speedplays

dav1

SPDs for me as well.

I hate the idea of faffing with straps when setting off. I also ride SPD on my other bikes so very used to it now but have had to turn the tension right up for fixed.

ddraver

Well it would appear that I ve stripped the threads off of the hub this morning so that's going back to Evans!!

I could make a comment about Italian Workmanship but I prefer to thin of myself as a huge hunk of power instead

dhope

ddraver wrote:

If you re hitting the town or going out to the Box Social, or whatever it is kids do these days, do you just wear those or change or..?

Tend to just wear the Spesh MTB shoes, sometimes chuck some trainers in a bag.
Saw these today in the flesh which I liked the look of though
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/gir ... e-ec057857

cookiemonster

dhope wrote:

ddraver wrote:

Saw these today in the flesh which I liked the look of though
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/gir ... e-ec057857

If you're in London and are a size 43, I'll sell you a pair that are only a few days old at a decent discount. Bought 43s when I should have got 42s...

jon

itboffin

okay my SS is officially not safe to ride in the rain, the front brake just doesnt work, which is odd because the rims are good and the pads are Koolstops, it must be the calipers

roger_merriman

itboffin wrote:

okay my SS is officially not safe to ride in the rain, the front brake just doesnt work, which is odd because the rims are good and the pads are Koolstops, it must be the calipers

Brake levers? My SS has little stubby BMX ones which need a firm grip, though it isn't much worse in rain the previous SS lost a lot of braking in the rain, which I think was the calipers.

itboffin

Cane creek SCR which have been fine for years, seeing as one is now completely snapped in half perhaps its time for some upgrades, i'm thinking disc SS rear wheel with a clever horizontal dropout disc adapter, with a normal caliper front + new swiss stop pads and a suicide lever.

Actually thinking about it anyone have one spare you might have taken off your CX bike, you dirty perverts

EKE_38BPM

itboffin wrote:

Actually thinking about it anyone have one spare you might have taken off your CX bike, you dirty perverts

Try the Boardman thread. It seems like the number one mod is to take the cross tops off.

redvee

If my C2W bikes comes from Evans then I'll have a pair up fro grabs as that is the first thing to come off.

asprilla

itboffin wrote:

Cane creek SCR which have been fine for years, seeing as one is now completely snapped in half perhaps its time for some upgrades, i'm thinking disc SS rear wheel with a clever horizontal dropout disc adapter, with a normal caliper front + new swiss stop pads and a suicide lever.

Actually thinking about it anyone have one spare you might have taken off your CX bike, you dirty perverts

Sounds to me like you need a Cotic Escapade frameset. If it had been available when I got my Peregrine with an eccentric BB I would have picked the Escspade instead.

dav1

So my fixie is in the garage with a stuck BB at the minute. Looks like ill have to get it to the LBS to get the sod out...

Didn't think I would have to get accustomed to using gears again but i do seem to be flying along on it. Still cant wait to have the fixie fixed up and good as new (with a bigger gear )

ddraver

ddraver wrote:

Well it would appear that I ve stripped the threads off of the hub this morning so that's going back to Evans!!

I could make a comment about Italian Workmanship but I prefer to thin of myself as a huge hunk of power instead

^^Mine's back at Evans waiting for a judgement on whether the blatant stripping of the hub is a warranty issue or not

God I cannot stand Evans! Curse whoever decided to get use the Evans only R2W scheme!!!

pastryboy

Time for a new bike soon. Aside from the Merlin single malt, are there any other fixed bikes that have rack/mudguard mounts?