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This is heartbreaking. Good luck with the sale, I hope it goes to someone who will appreciate it, and I hope your knees unfuck themselves.
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Serious tearjerker man, such a shame... Incidentally, do you know an Irish guy over your way called Johnny Blayney?
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horrible reason to have to sell it. I'd consider the frame.
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what about Ed's suggestion?
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That really suck mate, surely you can make some kind of compromise on your Burls to make it more.. knee friendly for you? like freewheel with 3 speed hubs?
I was thinking about sending it back to have a gear hanger and braze ons fitted, as well as drilled. but i dont wanna make it into a road bike or anything other than a fixie/track bike. i reckon A the rear end is too chunky to make an attractive compromise to a road frame and B i have a good replacement in mind so it wont be all bad ;)
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Hahahaha! ye i know Johnny he's a matey. Relation?
Nah just a real good mate, went to school together back in day... He's building up a super stealth Leader at the moment which should be pretty tight when finished, shit to hear the Burls has to go though, he was telling me all about how nice it is, waaaaay to big for me though unfortunately and anyone I know who's looking for something that size haz no dorrah :(
You going to get some other form of two wheeler to replace it? Singlespeed/ geared? -
Nah just a real good mate, went to school together back in day... He's building up a super stealth Leader at the moment which should be pretty tight when finished, shit to hear the Burls has to go though, he was telling me all about how nice it is, waaaaay to big for me though unfortunately and anyone I know who's looking for something that size haz no dorrah :(
You going to get some other form of two wheeler to replace it? Singlespeed/ geared?gonna get a MTB on Ride 2 Work then gonna build a ti nice roadbike with any spare money from this and my track frame/bike which will be for sale soon
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Lovely stuff, not too so bad though then... Why MTB though? Surely any kind of MTB carry-on would be hard on knees no?
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Lovely stuff, not too so bad though then... Why MTB though? Surely any kind of MTB carry-on would be hard on knees no?
why would you think that? im gonna get a cross country MTB and put slick on it for commuting and then chang tyres for off road, which i probably wont get much of until next year by the time i get it
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Hmmm, yeah don't know what made me think that, just jumping and DH really... I'll have to get over for a visit and some spins with Johnny next year!
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crane before you sell, I'd advise you to go and speak to scherrit, and get sized, if you haven't already and see if that and some foot beds, might not overcome the knee issues. Shame to see a bike you spent so long, building up disappear from its rightful home, because of an recurrent injury which could be sorted.
if you've already seen a bike fitter, and there's no way its gonna work, my apologies and good luck with the sale.. -
crane before you sell, I'd advise you to go and speak to scherrit, and get sized, if you haven't already and see if that and some foot beds, might not overcome the knee issues. Shame to see a bike you spent so long, building up disappear from its rightful home, because of an recurrent injury which could be sorted.
if you've already seen a bike fitter, and there's no way its gonna work, my apologies and good luck with the sale..http://www.progresscycle.co.uk/
This guy is a colleague/good mate of mine, he did the frame for me and helped me fit it up when it was finished
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It is with great sorrow that i have to sell this, but my knees are pretty fucked after 14 years of skateboarding and 3 of of riding fixed, and continuous knee pain and a doctors warning are enough to tell me that at 19 i dont want to fuck my knees up beyond repair when i have a long time left to enjoy them.
I guess you already tried really short cranks? (a lot better for the knees)
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Crane, how tall are you BTW? I have seen you around and always wanted to stop you and ask you about your frame, its that wishbone stay that does it for me! Now my wishes have come true and your selling it, just need to know if its my size!
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For Sale: Burls Ti track frame, fork and parts
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It is with great sorrow that i have to sell this, but my knees are pretty fucked after 14 years of skateboarding and 3 of of riding fixed, and continuous knee pain and a doctors warning are enough to tell me that at 19 i dont want to fuck my knees up beyond repair when i have a long time left to enjoy them.
so i am selling both my fixed gear bikes, this one is going first, so i can free up some money.
Burls custom built Titanium 3AL-2.5V track frame. this is the only burls track frame with wishbone stays. undrilled at the back, and has tight clearance with a 28c tyre, but can also fit a 32 with the wheel pretty far back in the dropouts. I just went for a quick 10 minute spin, and all i could think is "why the hell am i selling this bike" i know im going to regret it for a long time. The Frame is a good stiffness, and very comefortable. Ti is a very different ride from carbon/ally.
seat tube C2C 58.2cm C2T 62.0cm
Top tube C2C 58cm
head tube 19.4 cm
head tube angle 73
seat tube angle 74
i asked the person who designed the geometry and sizing for me to make it a bike that would be comfortable enough for me to ride on all day, so the headtube is a little bit more slack than most track frames, which makes the handling very predictable, which i really like. NO TOE OVERLAP the frame is around 1400 grams with the seat collar if memory serves, but i can find out exactly on request. frame, fork headset and seat collar are around 1900grams.
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