Get your fixie in Urban Cyclist magazine

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  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    depends on what speed you're spinning out at and you normal commuting speed.
    FCN 9 || FCN 5
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    rubertoe wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    rubertoe wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    rubertoe wrote:
    Fixies = Meh

    Its not 1912 the freewheel has now been invented as have derailleurs.


    I'd love a fixie, i'm just not man enough

    I've been riding SS for a couple of days and it feels slower and lazier than riding fixed. The hills feel harder too.
    FG DOES feel better than riding with a freewheel.

    Barnet Hill on a fixie will put hair on your chest.

    It's not Barnet Hill that worries me, i'ts getting from Camden to Finchely (Archway road, Swains Lane, Highgate West and North Hills and up through Hampstead is where it would hurt)

    Smashed that on 50-16.. MTFU grit your teeth and pull up like a mofo at the same time as stomping down... you'll get up there


    Which Hill though?
    the main one parallel Swains
    Purveyor of sonic doom

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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Clever Pun wrote:
    rubertoe wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    rubertoe wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    rubertoe wrote:
    Fixies = Meh

    History

    I'd love a fixie, i'm just not man enough

    Chest beating

    Hills


    Which Hill though?
    the main one parallel Swains

    Nails...
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

    PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
    B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills
  • kieranb
    kieranb Posts: 1,674
    so what will this mag give me that I can't get on the forum? Probably lots of adds?
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    Dear FixieBikeMag,
    If you can source me some Avid BB7 SLs then you can take a picture of my Condor Tempo with discs. Mudguards, fixed and discs, it couldn't get more urban I tells ya. I await the kit in the post, ta.
    Rose Xeon CW Disc
    CAAD12 Disc
    Condor Tempo
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,885
    JamesB5446 wrote:
    Just poor technique then. ;)
    jds_1981 wrote:
    Think a better fixed/geared analogy would be an automatic and manual gearbox. Good at different things. Automatic is the future but it just doesn't feel as good as manual :)
    Nope, still different gears.
    I don't think any car analogy will work.
    How about fixed is like driving a car that's stuck in gear and the clutch cable has snapped?
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Veronese68 wrote:
    JamesB5446 wrote:
    Just poor technique then. ;)
    jds_1981 wrote:
    Think a better fixed/geared analogy would be an automatic and manual gearbox. Good at different things. Automatic is the future but it just doesn't feel as good as manual :)
    Nope, still different gears.
    I don't think any car analogy will work.
    How about fixed is like driving a car that's stuck in gear and the clutch cable has snapped?
    What car with what engine stuck in what gear?
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    JamesB5446 wrote:
    Just poor technique then. ;)
    jds_1981 wrote:
    Think a better fixed/geared analogy would be an automatic and manual gearbox. Good at different things. Automatic is the future but it just doesn't feel as good as manual :)
    Nope, still different gears.
    I don't think any car analogy will work.
    How about fixed is like driving a car that's stuck in gear and the clutch cable has snapped?
    What car with what engine stuck in what gear?
    you can still change gear with no clutch.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,885
    nicklouse wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    JamesB5446 wrote:
    Just poor technique then. ;)
    jds_1981 wrote:
    Think a better fixed/geared analogy would be an automatic and manual gearbox. Good at different things. Automatic is the future but it just doesn't feel as good as manual :)
    Nope, still different gears.
    I don't think any car analogy will work.
    How about fixed is like driving a car that's stuck in gear and the clutch cable has snapped?
    What car with what engine stuck in what gear?
    you can still change gear with no clutch.
    I know and I have done it a few times. I somehow became the default choice for picking up cars with no clutch cable at work. Start them in second, time your gear changes right and slip it into neutral before you stop. I used to quite enjoy it. That's why I said it was stuck in gear. That, and the fact that I was just being difficult.
    Oh, and EKE it's a 950cc Renault 5 stuck in 3rd. You should just be able to get it off the line and have the valves bouncing by 50mph.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Veronese68 wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    JamesB5446 wrote:
    Just poor technique then. ;)
    jds_1981 wrote:
    Think a better fixed/geared analogy would be an automatic and manual gearbox. Good at different things. Automatic is the future but it just doesn't feel as good as manual :)
    Nope, still different gears.
    I don't think any car analogy will work.
    How about fixed is like driving a car that's stuck in gear and the clutch cable has snapped?
    What car with what engine stuck in what gear?
    you can still change gear with no clutch.
    I know and I have done it a few times. I somehow became the default choice for picking up cars with no clutch cable at work. Start them in second, time your gear changes right and slip it into neutral before you stop. I used to quite enjoy it. That's why I said it was stuck in gear. That, and the fact that I was just being difficult.
    Oh, and EKE it's a 950cc Renault 5 stuck in 3rd. You should just be able to get it off the line and have the valves bouncing by 50mph.

    Ah, a french car. Thats where you've gone wrong. I suggest something German or Japanese for better reliability.

    Around town, that wouldn't be a huge problem. Yes, you'd be slow of the line, but you'd never have the valves bouncing as you'd never hit 50.
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • JamesB5446
    JamesB5446 Posts: 471
    If you can't sustain high cadence then maybe a BMW 640 stuck in 4th. If you can spin pretty quick then you're a Civic Type R stuck in 2nd.

    Important question is, what scent is the air freshener?
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Magic Tree Forest Fresh.

    Anything else is just not cricket.
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    Veronese68 wrote:
    I know and I have done it a few times. I somehow became the default choice for picking up cars with no clutch cable at work. Start them in second, time your gear changes right and slip it into neutral before you stop. I used to quite enjoy it. That's why I said it was stuck in gear. That, and the fact that I was just being difficult.
    Oh, and EKE it's a 950cc Renault 5 stuck in 3rd. You should just be able to get it off the line and have the valves bouncing by 50mph.

    I recall driving an Alfa from Chester to Pembroke and back in 3rd gear a few years ago. Due to something I had/hadn't done, we were setting off late for the Pembrokeshire hunt ball when, less than a mile after setting off, the 5mm split-pin that held the gear linkage together decided now would be a really amusing time to ping off, leaving me with no connection betwixt gear stick and box. The Mrs (now ex) was not so amused.

    Will they publish it's picture?

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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,885
    Was that a picture of the Alfa or the ex? Didn't recognise your new avatar, the old one was cuter.
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Was that a picture of the Alfa or the ex? Didn't recognise your new avatar, the old one was cuter.

    Ha! Even pictures of Alfas break down!

    Its a cat - the worst vermin of all, innit.
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    We're all victims of fashion, but those on SS/Fixies really do seem to enjoy their victim status!
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    prj45 wrote:
    We're all victims of fashion, but those on SS/Fixies really do seem to enjoy their victim status!

    The same can be said for the current swathe of Mamils in full Team Sky kit and Team GB kit....
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Did this ever happen? The magazine, I mean?
  • Jamie_Wilkins
    Jamie_Wilkins Posts: 1
    It's on sale today!
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    @Jamie: Did anyone get in it?
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    gtvlusso wrote:
    @Jamie: Did anyone get in it?
    I said that they could picture my bike if they sent through a nice new disc brake fork and wheel to make it more urban. It must've got lost in the post :roll:
    Rose Xeon CW Disc
    CAAD12 Disc
    Condor Tempo
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    Jamie_Wilkins wrote:
    It's on sale today!
    I Googled for it but all I found was the Charge 2013 Brochure ;)
    Rose Xeon CW Disc
    CAAD12 Disc
    Condor Tempo
  • redjeepǃ
    redjeepǃ Posts: 531
    I flicked through it in the local newsagent. It seemed quite good, but more of a 'Lifestyle' mag than a cycling mag. I may have bought it anyway, but it was €9 here in Ireland :shock:

    I was also a bit worried that they'd played all their cards in the first issue. I mean articles on messenger bags, readers' fixies and skinny jeans.....what on earth are they going to write about next month ? :D
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Redjeep! wrote:
    I was also a bit worried that they'd played all their cards in the first issue. I mean articles on messenger bags, readers' fixies and skinny jeans.....what on earth are they going to write about next month ? :D
    Did this make it to a second month?
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • timmyflash
    timmyflash Posts: 526
    I bought it and was quickly annoyed i'd bought it. Rubbish.

    Can this be un-stickied please?
    Steel Blue Fixed - Orange Backpack Cover

    How do i get a link to a photo in here?!

    Fixeh
  • green thing
    green thing Posts: 33
    Definitely a lifestyle mag; I picked up the first one out of curiosity and part of the "how to build a fixie" article suggested attacking the bottom bracket shell with a proper double-sided tap set. No indication of the fact that it's handed or how to use it......
    Unwashed (but well-lubricated) fixed thing, jeans, DMs - FCN 7(?)
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Barnet Hill on a fixie will put hair on your chest.

    So given I've seen you wear a full zip top I can say with reasonable surety you've never done it then...
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Barnet Hill on a fixie will put hair on your chest.

    So given I've seen you wear a full zip top I can say with reasonable surety you've never done it then...

    I can just about mamange it on a 2x10 speed road bike!! :wink:
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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    B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills
  • philwi
    philwi Posts: 19
    green thing wrote:
    Definitely a lifestyle mag
    And published by our kind hosts here, which I guess is why it's stickied. But most magazines are "lifestyle".

    I have a track bike which I ride to work and it's fixed. It's not a "fixie" - that's a kiddie term for those single-speed clunky things they're riding around because they finally worked out that 27 gears and tractor tyres are really slow in the Fens.

    Wouldn't it be better to print pictures of people, er, actually riding bikes, rather than the bikes themselves. Unless the revenue model of Future has changed, there should be plenty of advertising copy in there if people want to get excited over pictures of equipment.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Barnet Hill on a fixie will put hair on your chest.

    So given I've seen you wear a full zip top I can say with reasonable surety you've never done it then...
    Oi! I have a hairy chest, belly and legs!
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!

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