Shit fixie skidders say...

That whole thread...

Called it!

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/315067/?offset=25#14036617

What is with his stone garland?

For evening out the weight of the wheel.

I know, I know, just where has this fascination come from.

I think I'm factually faster.

I'm in here twice - I don't even have a fixie

This has got #shitfixieskidderssay all over it

I have built the bike for me and I am fed up with omniums everywhere.

But then you won’t get laughed at by all cyclists while simultaneously thinking you’re really cool.

truth is I dont really ride this one that much, but I love looking at it while I eat pies and drink beer.

Probably not quite the right thread for this, but close enough.

You’re cycling back to the lockup where you keep your bike, a sleek, clean-lined fixie, lime green and gorgeous. You’re feeling good — you have a new card in your spokes and a new $100 hub in your belt-pack — and you’re looking forward to an afternoon sipping Colt 45 and building a new deep-V wheel.

You’re just about to stop by the lockup door and pull out your decidedly non-ironic keychain, a big plushy Tigger fob hanging from the end, borrowed from your mother after you lost your keys at last week’s drunken game of bike polo, when a hottie appears from nowhere, cruising her sky-blue custom fixed and grinding on her Brooks saddle. You just can’t let her see those keys.

9yrs ago

"I ride 46-16 fixed. I recently went from cages to clipless — and it's so dope. Leg to foot to pedal power is awesome! Skid stops are super sweet, too, nowadays."

Strong first post.

fixeee King

Theta = 2 * Pi * i / (N / 2) = 4 * Pi * i / N = angle measured at the hub between a line passing through a hub spoke hole and wheel center and the line passing through rim spoke hole and wheel center for the same spoke

... then, aside from a correction of about 0.8mm from spoke stretch (~0.6mm) and extra spoke hole room (~0.2mm), the length of the spoke comes out to be:

Length = 0.5 * sqrt [ X^2 + E^2 + D^2 - 2 * E * D * cos( theta ) ]

[Note this matches with the results of United Bicycle Institute online calculator]

When one laces a triplet wheel with 24 spokes (16 DS, and 8 NDS), the angle theta turns out to be:

Theta_triplet = 2 * Pi * (19/4) / 24 = 4 * Pi * 4.75 / 48... ie the same angle as for a 48 spoke wheel laced with 4.75 crosses, or a 32 spoke wheel laced with 3.17 crosses

If one's calculator forces an integer for the number of crosses, and one made the calculation for a 5x wheel with 48 spokes, it would lead to a length that is slightly too long, because the angle theta would be off by Pi / 48 radians. If one imagines just the key spoke laced, then it'd be like rotating the hub by an extra quarter of the 24 hole spoke separation of the rim. Since the DS spokes are pretty much perpendicular to a radial line through the spoke hole, the effect of this is to change the length by roughly the angle of rotation multiplied by the radius of the hub flange, ie

Approx_length_error = Pi * (D / 2) / 48 = Pi * D / 96 = Pi * D * 0.010416666

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14156621/

Fixies are dead probably because roadies like me are getting turned on by their masterful simplicity. I'll let the cool kids worry about that as there is nothing like the sensation of being fixed in gear and to the bicycle itself. I did a couple of track sessions at LVV and HHV and have been hooked since. Lurking at the top of the banking choosing that moment to swoop down at the black line. The rush of wind and the blurring of vision as you close in on it until there is only that black line and the whir of your legs as breath and heart beat louden. What a buzz.

No Garmin, no speed

Where is?

I was a messenger for many years-the last 8 on brakeless track bikes.In that time I personally snapped 5 classic track frames,all on the seat tube at the bottom bracket lug!That was more pure torque than anything else.

Same chap is like a fecal fountain

Mate,I don't talk shit-when you've seen and done as much as I have you don't need to;-)

Linky?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/319791/#comment14200235

Shredding round the New Forest this weekend at Brother In The Wild

Love this one

"Training?What the hell's that?This is life!"

I went to a Breadwinner pre-NAHBS party when I was in Portland

Opens up your chest so you can breath, plus it’s dead comfy.