ojwithbikes

The road fixed Brother Swift project may well be finito folks, from something to do sweet skidz on to something to struggle up hills on. All I had to add were some:

1. 40c Pro Vibe drop bars.
   
2. Zipp 100mm 6deg stem
   
3. A cane creek dummy stoker lever and a SRAM s500 lever for braking purposes.
   
4. Shimano Ultegra front brake I hadn’t had on this bike for a while, that has backwards brake pads I think but I cba to swap them round… is that at all impactful on braking performance? Let me know.
   
5. 19t cog. So with 49t chainring I’m running about 67.85 gear inches.
   
6. Some King Cage USBs so that I can have a bottle to drink after struggling up hills.
   
   

I’ve not ridden it that far yet but it feels super fluid to ride around and effortless to pedal, but I think that has more to do with the step up from 17t to a 19t than it does the drop/hood combo.

Speaking of which, dropping the stem length to 100mm from 130mm was a good move. Having repositioned the levers as #bdhu as I could (the design of the SRAM lever doesn’t play that well with these bars, the way the cable exits means that it stops the lever moving any higher up the bar). I found this Zipp stem on Facebook marketplace for £15, thought it wasn’t gonna suit the bike the best, but actually really rate it. The kinda garish big ‘Zipp’ logo is pretty peak fixie fashion which I reckon balances out the otherwise non peak fixie fashion additions.

Also really glad I could straight swap out the cogs, was dreading having to put links in the chain. The resulting clearance has gotta be worth some cool points right?

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