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she is telling me that this time she can not cut your hair.

What kind of a euphemism is that?

This is what i bought last week, It is my first fixed gear bike so should be fun, im going to have my wheels built next week and i need to get drivetrain aswell so should be riding within a couple of weeks, and omg i cant actualy wait...

This is what i bought last week, It is my first fixed gear bike so should be fun, im going to have my wheels built next week and i need to get drivetrain aswell so should be riding within a couple of weeks, and omg i cant actualy wait...

by who can't you do it yourself or with some guidance

starting brakeless?

im going to get them done in holloway cycles just because its only £25 and i only work round the coner, plus ive never built any wheels so dont want them to be done shit, and yer im starting brakeless haha i think i will be ok though.

and yer im starting brakeless haha i think i will be ok though.

Do be so sure !

Good luck with that, nice frame by the way.

max, if you survive the first month or so riding without a brake you should be fine. It's a steep learning curve to go straight to fixed and brakeless, but you should be fine.

Dibs on yer frame if it out-lives you ;)

(joke. Please god don't die in a bike accident now, I'd never be able to forgive my flippance!)

This is what i bought last week, It is my first fixed gear bike so should be fun, im going to have my wheels built next week and i need to get drivetrain aswell so should be riding within a couple of weeks, and omg i cant actualy wait...

so, a nosaddle to go along with them nobrakes then! ;)

v. nice frame by the way (would recommend starting off with brakes though!)

Hoverbike eh? I love it!

saw one of those at HH today, what track you going to be riding, Maxpayne?

Max, do you not think that riding fixed for the first time without a brake shows a massive lack of respect for other cyclists?
Kinda like me volunteering to fly a commercial aircraft

yeah but you can't drill that Cinelli

best just potter down the local shops until you get the feel for it

You might be able to get another fork? Or do the Vigorellis have integrated headsets?

Anyway, +1 to the get-a-brake thing. I may barely use mine but on the occasions that I do I am very glad of it.

if you are going to start drilling holes in it you may as well give it to me

You might be able to get another fork? Or do the Vigorellis have integrated headsets?

Non sequitur.

Vigorellis have an integrated headset. You can get another fork.

if you are going to start drilling holes in it you may as well give it to me

and why is that?

Yeah, an integrated headset does not limit your choice of fork. The bianchi pista comes with one, and I ran it with threaded forks for a while.

Yeah, an integrated headset does not limit your choice of fork. The bianchi pista comes with one, and I ran it with threaded forks for a while.

• there are plenty of integrated forks available if you want to run an integrated headset/fork.
  
  

But we are getting a little ahead of ourselves, MaxPayne (a reasonable prediction) has not said he is going to be doing any fork swapping.

Non sequitur.

Vigorellis have an integrated headset. You can get another fork.

Ah. I had thought that integrated headsets meant you had to buy proprietary forks, hence lack of options. My bad.

(in which case, MaxPayne should consider getting a drilled fork...)

Ah. I had thought that integrated headsets meant you had to buy proprietary forks, hence lack of options. My bad.

(in which case, MaxPayne should consider getting a drilled fork...)

Yeah, any old integrated fork would work + as ASM said you can get pretty much any fork to work with a bit of effort.

Ok. Jokes aside max, I would strongly advise you buy a set of drilled carbon forks for your vigorelli. I have nothing against people riding without brakes, but doing so with no prior experience, and especially no prior experience of riding fixed, is putting yourself at risk.

No offence, what is more worrying to me is that you might also risk injuring traffic-blind pedestrians in situations which would otherwise easily be avoided. It might be their fault for not looking before entering the road, but equally it's yours for over-stepping your limits, and this is definitely an example of that.

Furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, you're spreading a bad image of this particular genre of cycling. You might be a capable and experienced cyclist (in fact I would fucking well hope so if you're seriously considering this), who takes very quickly to riding without brakes, but you're broadcasting a message to others who may not be as capable as you. This could lead them to injury.

The last thing fixed-wheel riders need are inexperienced brakeless cyclists causing pedestrians injury or other avoidable accidents in traffic. It paints a bad reputation of us all. Fixed wheel bikes are unique amongst bikes because learning to ride them safely, that is, learning how to stop or control them using the drive-chain, which is NOT as efficient as 2 properly functioning calliper brakes, is comparable to the learning curve of learning to ride a bike in the first place.

Carbon forks are cheap and easy to come by. They would also provide a more comfortable ride on streets than the forks the vigorelli comes with (assuming they're not also carbon of course). Once you've gotten used to the ways of the fixed-wheel bike I don't care if you take the brake off, but please for the sake of others have one while you're learning.

Yeah, any old integrated fork would work + as ASM said you can get pretty much any fork to work with a bit of effort.

assuming the vigorelli's head tube is 1inch as opposed to 1 1/8th, you could stick any set of forks in, with a replacement headset.

But yeah, integrated drilled carbon forks aren't exactly rare.

two new bikes i'm working on!

first is for my father in law! wanted a road bike so picked up the cia bettini for £40 going to be painted on wednesday (will post up pics of the build/finish)

second is a sneak of my new moser frame! not a lo pro but still way cool!

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and why is that?

because before you can run you must learn how to walk and that Cinelli is going to end up either drilled or messed up with which is a shame because it is a beautiful bike so why don't you build it brakeless and hang it on the wall and go and buy a beater to learn the ropes with

two new bikes i'm working on!

first is for my father in law!

Excellent excuse Joe, I think I will have to steal it. ;P