What bikes do you ride?

theres some nice bikes on here, heres a pic of mine,(first fix) needs a brooks after the old one blew up! and a silver seat post apart from that im happy with it

ummm nice:)

Piers Thanks David. Is there a reason (other than it being uncool) not to have the back brake? I like to hold the hoods when climbing.

You have the brake bosses there. I'd leave it there.
I'm going to leave the rear brake on the Soma because I may take it on longer/hillier rides and when I'm knackered flip to singlespeed.
Or leave it fixed on descents and use the brake to rest my legs. Fashion can fair ol' get fscked! Fashion is what brought you pink shirts.. sums it up really.. ;)

My Raleigh track has two brake hoods but no rear brake. You can do the phantom hood thing with any set of levers, the only thing is my internals on the phantom lever rattle a little bit. I've just got to glue the little cable retainer down but I'm a lazy fscker and haven't got around to it yet.

Buck the self-harm trend. Brakes are cool!

I'll swap you your black ones for my Campag ones.. stupid Campag junk.. mumble grumble..

Thanks for all the advice - I'll leave it there for now. Anyway, braking with the pedals hurts my pathetic roadie legs.

just picked up my wheel from arup looks sweet with the crows foot pattern ( thanks arup ) got it onto frame tightening the tracks nuts when ping one of the track nuts explodes it looked a tad dodgy when i bought it, slight crack already just went for some dura ace rear nuts from hubjub can i tighten those an unlimited amount or is there a torque setting to which i should go da's seem top quality engineering could i break them even if i tried ?

Door`s Eye fixie on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

my best photo , more than 350 views lol...
also its my bike ;)

i like the way you linked it to your flckr acound instead of puting the photo on here.....fishing for more views are ya???:)

aidan i like the way you linked it to your flckr acound instead of puting the photo on here.....fishing for more views are ya???:)

Now I feel like a sucker for having clicked. I want my click back!

evil genius aint he!
i should have known:)

dicki just picked up my wheel from arup looks sweet with the crows foot pattern ( thanks arup ) got it onto frame tightening the tracks nuts when ping one of the track nuts explodes it looked a tad dodgy when i bought it, slight crack already just went for some dura ace rear nuts from hubjub can i tighten those an unlimited amount or is there a torque setting to which i should go da's seem top quality engineering could i break them even if i tried ?

You shouldn't need to torque 'em down until they break. I don't and I'm pretty sure I can put some power into the rear wheel, ie. if someone was gonna shift the wheel accelerating, I would.
I do run chain tugs though which could make a difference, but even when I didn't I'd only have to re-tension the chain once a week(ish).

nice one mrvista, congrats on your build. but are you riding fixed without toeclips?

i was thinking of buying that frame from roberto... i think either you, or if not, jan at brick lane bikes snapped it up.
did you get that from brick lane bikes or roberto?

yeah silver seatpost please! don't think that black one suits the frame.

the spokes and the wire fence are hurting my eyes...

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HI EDMUNDANE got it from brick lane bikes, fixed no toe clips, theres not enough room!

hey mrvista

so i bet jan from brick lane bikes bought it from roberto and sold it to you. mind telling me how much you got the frame for?

riding fixed without any kind of attachment to your pedals is really rather dangerous... well for me at least. yeah the frame is very tight do you mean there's pedal overlap? i have pedal overlap too but i do have clips and yeah you get used to it, it's less of problem for me than riding without clips.

you might want to try SPD's for that.

Yeah you should try no clips for a taste. I've been riding on flat bmx pedals for 3 months now, and it just takes a bit of imaginative footwork to get the wheel locked up.:]
mind you, I have been stalling on buying some powergrips for some time now, and kinda miss the instantaneos sllding of the bike beneath, with such ease as is afforded with the mighty foot-trapment-device.

ive had no problems (so far!) riding clipless, the gearings lite so i cant go that fast anyway!

nice, i like the brooks saddle and tape combo : )

someone else said it the other day that having a fixed wheel mountain bike is dangerous due to when riding off road the pedals can easily hit the ground/rocks/tree roots....is this the case or was the person who told me that a big fat lier?????

aidan, i'd say from a statistical point of view, chance of getting run over by an HGV in london is higher than pedal strike on a mountain fixie.
and picking the wrong line is a factor in both situations that multiplies the chance by how wrong it is :)

oh yeah gearing is light on the bob griffin...
mine's 48:16. meant to change it but no cash and tools YET. i'm used to darting around the place with my road bike this gearing is light for me already. would be scared shitless if i go anywhere without clips.

after 12 months of continually changing bits and tweaking it's almost there, so I thought i'd share...

that is just super-nice

lovely... i've always wanted chrome stays... have 4 bike frames only 1 pair of chrome forks. and i see that you've got wood!

Cwor!
Refined, yet bling at the same time...
Bonus points for the nice photo too.