Fixed project (Abbey)

I like it more as a geared bike to be honest. It was... well, whole?

+1

I live in York not London, people drive less crazy here and roads are less busy.

this is bullshit and bloody naive i have ridden both and live in the former and drivers are just as bad wherever you are, btw you need some new cotterpins as your cranks are not alligned and need to stop acting like you are chris hoy when you are trying to convert a piece of shit bike which must weigh a ton. And with no brakes you will end up under a purple ftr bendy bus before the week is out.

"breakless" doesn't equal "reckless"

it does if;

1. You've got no foot retention
   
2. You've got a stupidly high gear inch
   
3. You rely on skidding to stop/slow
   

1. if you've just started riding fixed
   

Cranks are sorted. I've had a fixie before.....

cool what did you have?

(i love this bike)

A Fort track bike

i prefer the z to the s. but then i was brought up in the states.

ed i think i love you : silly cucumber- ace.

i also pronounce tomato, tohMAYto, not TohMAHto. cos it should rhyme with pohTAYto.
and spell things like color and favorite.

also why all the hate, this place has gotten v. lary recently:
if they want to ride it that way, let the fuckers.
just when they come back with a: I ran my fixed into the back of bus i was drafting you can say I told you so, all knowledgeable like.

I just put a brake on the geekhouse for the first time, and fuck! you can go so much faster.
I can happily draft buses now, safe in the knowledge that I can stop on a sixpence..

• lairy-lary ;)
  

not being funny but an abbey after a fort is like going, you know what forget my bmw this is much better http://storm.oldcarmanualproject.com/reliant/robin/Reliant%20Robin%201e.jpg

am i wrong? @nuknow pengybike tm +1 lovely bike

The Fort was too small for me. I've never even heard of Abbey before are they crap?

What rate is your current lender offering?

well i have no heard of them either, most likely generic late 70s early 80s mass produced heavy steel framed poor component bike worth about £40, it would make a great pub bike but forts arnt cheap, so you understand why i consider it a step down

What rate is your current lender offering?

god im tired only just bloody got that!

you got me there and I have to admit.... it is purely for cosmetic reasons
but it looks so nice without brakes!

does that mean I'm shallow?

nah, just makes you an asshole. you're riding a gear in the high 80s and you find it hard to stop. good luck when some idiot pushes a pushchair into your path without looking

Darwin in action

Darwin in action --->

Snob factor? Did you or did you not say you can't stop properly?
If you run into me on a machine not fit for purpose how do you think i am gonna feel?
What if you run into someone less likely to rip your head off but more vunerable? Old lady, you know?
Until you can ride with a brake, I suggest leaving it on. Fuck style.

It's not a snob factor, you have a high gear ratio and no brakes. This is massively irresponsible to those around you. I couldn't give a fuck if you loose all your teeth when you slam a bus at the bottom of a hill cos you can't stop in time but if you hit someone else then you're gonna look like such a cunt. I you ever slap into me on a ride you will get your legs broken.
For what it's worth, i have no problem with brakless in the hands of those that can control it. Your obvious naivity to the danger implies you know fuck all about riding brakeless.

Well that's alright then. Next!

I hope you have to do an emergency stop tomorrow alongside someone else going the same speed as you, don't care if you crash, you just need to learn that whatever you think you do not have the same control over your bike as you would otherwise.
Most of the brakless riders on here are fucking skilled at the art of hazard anticipation and defensive riding. You just come across as a stubborn hipster prick who deserves a good crash to teach you some respect for physics.

Maybe because to us it sounds like you can't control your bike and then stubbornly defend your failed choice of setup..

Because you've admitted you can't control your bike properly yet choose not to add a brake cos it doesn't look hip enough.
This makes you a cunt. End of.

I will race you down any hill in norf london you choose.

Oooh.. race? I'm up for that. Let's go motherfuckers!

Loser's buying my drinks.