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The Northern Monkey
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Levers could you theoretically have on your bars?
2 x gear
2 x brake
poploc for forks
lockout for rear shock
joplin
anymore? 7 would make for a rather busy set of bars, especially if running lights and a satnav!
2 x gear
2 x brake
poploc for forks
lockout for rear shock
joplin
anymore? 7 would make for a rather busy set of bars, especially if running lights and a satnav!
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Lack of imagination.
It's perfectly possible to run 4 brakes at least, assuming you have canti posts. 0 -
still thinking
How does the bionicon work? or would that just replace the fork and shock levers?0 -
The Northern Monkey wrote:Levers could you theoretically have on your bars?
2 x gear
2 x brake
poploc for forks
lockout for rear shock
joplin
anymore? 7 would make for a rather busy set of bars, especially if running lights and a satnav!
you could probably combine the lockout and poploc so that takes you back down to 6, switch to gripshift for the gears bringing your levers down to 4.
I cba to google joplin but will assume it's a seat lowering mechanism, maybe someone will invent a mechanism that works on a gyroscope to automatically lower the seat and rise it depending on the angle of the bike.
but the short answer is 5. (brakes, gears, and poploc)0 -
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Could hook up a lever to control the U-turn on a fork...0
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whyamihere wrote:Could hook up a lever to control the U-turn on a fork...
now that would be cool.
wish the compression and rebound adjust was lever operated too.0 -
Get a CNC machine and do it. 0
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How about combining the uturn lever into the inside lock on grip lock on bit?
that would be ace... small swipe of your thumb on the edge of your grip to change the travel.0 -
Don't forget the lever on this too!!
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Two brake levers and a shifter is all you need, although some people would say that's three levers too many
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.blitz wrote:Two brake levers and a shifter is all you need, although some people would say that's three levers too many
Surely a fixie is all you need - then it's just the one brake isn't it?Vitus Sentier VR+ (2018) GT Grade AL 105 (2016)
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don't even need a brake on a fixie do you?!Bartimaeus wrote:.blitz wrote:Two brake levers and a shifter is all you need, although some people would say that's three levers too many
Surely a fixie is all you need - then it's just the one brake isn't it?0 -
I believe that the law says you need independent braking on both wheels - so I think a fixie needs a front brake.
I'm just trying to imagine how you negotiate a steep rocky descent on a fixie, even once you have dropped your seatpost :shock:Vitus Sentier VR+ (2018) GT Grade AL 105 (2016)
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I dont run either of them, but there is a lever available for both the compresion and the FCR travel adjust on my Magura Thor's.... that's at least 1 more, as the damping one would replace poplockI like bikes and stuff0
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Some of the high end lighting systems have remote switches, so as well as adding the lights, you'd have another switch to contend with.
800mm bars anyone?0 -
The Northern Monkey wrote:small swipe of your thumb on the edge of your grip to change the travel.
thats my fave thing about the bionicon way of riding your bke, i do wish the button was a bit more accessible though.0 -
I reckon the following:
Brake levers x 2
Gear shifters x 2 (I'll count them as levers)
Remote seatpost x 1
Bionicon travel button x 1
That retro fit Aussie thing for rear damping/Pro Pedal remote x 1
Giving a total of 7.
I therefore win.0 -
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My old electron lights had a bar mounted switch for each of the two front lights,so you could have these, sat nav, 2x brake, 2x gears, 2x for fork, 1x for rear shock, 1x joplin and a bell.
Then you could add a remote switched rear light and indicators.
Plus if you fit one of those seat tube fitted motors you'd have a switch for that too.Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.
Who are you calling inbred?0 -
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There is a feral colony of unicyclists on Cannock Chase so I imagine riding round on a fixie should be pretty easy.Bartimaeus wrote:I'm just trying to imagine how you negotiate a steep rocky descent on a fixie, even once you have dropped your seatpost :shock:0
