You are reading a single comment by @Rik_Van_Looy and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Rik_Van_Looy
^ fraid not - There must be 2 of us imposters knocking about the place!
That said, I'd be pretty pleased with a 55:13 25, just 7 places off one of my Heroes Sean Yates in 6th...
Speaking of Yates, I'm using one of his tricks on the Gitane, the "old tub inside a thrashed tyre" ploy.
Gitane will be complete once I've made it to the shed and managed to locate my chain tool, an old tub and 2nd toestrap.
The pedals are Kyokuto Top Flight I picked up for 99p on ebay Once I'd cleaned and regreased them they're silkly smooth and very nice quality.
Seatpost is a ebay cheapo that toolroom guy turned down from 25.4 to 25.0 to suit.
(Turns out seatposts come up smaller than the seattubes they fit (surprise surprise) so a 27.2mm post measures 27.0)
Here are my cardboard cutouts of the proposed cutting on the mistral chainrings - they don't look too bad.
I think I'll mock one up on my old gebhardt before chopping into the new ones.