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  • If your man enough, on a fixed gear you can do everything a roadie can do.
    See Patrick Seabase beasting big arse mountains, Andy Ellis riding stages of the tour etc. etc. etc

  • cough me riding alps this summer cough

  • Edscoble London to Morocco.

  • exactly.
    and im not saying that roadbikes are pointless because they do make sense to go long distance as its much easier.. but still

  • Glad that's sorted. I was about to burn my bikes.

  • Edscoble London to Morocco.

    | told him it'd be shit on mountain descents, it was shit on mountain descents.

    (taking nothing away from a sweet tour)

  • "Glad that's sorted. I was about to burn my bikes."

    Shit, I already did...

  • If your man enough, on a fixed gear you can do everything a roadie can do.

    You can't really go racing, timetrials aside.

  • most forks undrilled will be to tight to fit those though

    Its a clever idea--- one that I had not seen before (thanks!!!)-- but there are a number of problems beyond just tight fit.

    I think it would fit a lot of NJS frames and it is specifically marketed towards them (+ they sell spacers for the droupouts to move the wheel down a bit), but yeah I probably wouldn't want to brake hard on most NJS frames anyway and the design of that would make me even less confident...

  • Both of those lashed up brake mounts are what we used to call "bobby dodgers". They comply with the letter of the law, while being clearly inferior to a proper design.

  • How about this method for ultimate hatred?

  • Looks dodgy to me...

  • Yeah nothing too solid around there, must be tons of flex!

  • Both of those lashed up brake mounts are what we used to call "bobby dodgers". They comply with the letter of the law, while being clearly inferior to a proper design.

    The problem really is: what is "proper design".

    Brakes are not really for stopping but controlling speed. Even with the best brakes on a road bike for a quick stop its either 1) find an escape route 2) do down. Rear brakes on good roads are nearly without function as any braking causes the rear wheel to slip out. Having used all kinds of designs from centerpull (old Mafacs) to classic sidepulls to Campa's Delta to dual-pivots, drum etc. the difference between what I consider good and interferior is defined by reliability and modulation.

    Intentional skidding is even less effective-- leaving control and modulation aside-- as the distance to stop is greater. That's why all motorcars-- and increasingly motorcycles-- have ABS-- even if under some conditions such as poor roads, gravel etc. the braking distance can be longer, under most conditions its significantly shorter and, aboveall, more controlled.

    Its odd but I suspect for a fixed gear, contrary to freewheel and despite its lack of legal need, the rear might be more important as its use to control the drivetrain can be quite effective. Its, I think, no coincidence that most of the Keirin riders only mount rear brakes when they go off onto the roads...

    A front is still quite useful. And the question is: how? And I think there are good reasons why the DiaCompe design is so dominant. I have not yet seen a design so well suited to nearly any fork design. The Kimori is slick but from the perspective of physics its inferior. Anything better?

  • How about this method for ultimate hatred?

    Someone slept during physics.

  • If your man enough, on a fixed gear you can do everything a roadie can do.

    Not even every road bicycle is suited to "everything" on the road. For cobblestones, for example, you want a different design than for crits. For mountains you want something different from sprinting in the flats.
    My favorite road and track bikes are not too terribly different but the difference is significant. Both have quite similar seat-tube angles but the road frame has slightly greater drop than typical road bottom brackets and my track has typical small drop as mandated by most tracks. The road bike has a bit shorter than standard trail but the track is significantly shorter. The head-tube of the road bike is also slacker than the track machine. Rider position is quite similar but again also different.. .Lower BB and greater trail compared to the track bike make for quite different handling both climbing and especially riding pavé.... and I've not yet touched upon some of the +8% grade climbs around here-- that hit in spots as much as 20%(!)..

  • Of course of course.
    I'm generalising greatly here

  • im sure you can do most things on a fixed gear bike as you could on a road bike but in a fixed gear bike you will be slower, more tired and cursing yourself for choosing a track bike over a geared bike

  • I dunno, for shorter distances it can be better.
    There're a fair few people with their PRs on track bikes.

  • I don't this whole 'i can do anything on a trackbike' shit. So what? if you can good on you but i bet you fucking couldn't

  • Not saying I could.
    I couldnt do much on any bike

  • im sure you can do most things on a fixed gear bike as you could on a road bike but in a fixed gear bike you will be slower, more tired and cursing yourself for choosing a track bike over a geared bike

    I love your and spotter's rapha pictures xandi, is it bikeradar time already for you?:)

  • Not saying I could.
    I couldnt do much on any bike

    so don't say it, pointless

  • Alright mate. Not trying to cause shit..
    To be honest unless we were elite cyclists we dont need any carbon, any aluminium. Majority of us just commute and could do that on a cheap vintage racer or mountain bike.

  • Cheap brakecables. Especially rear brake cables.

    Why do you have to freeze up on me every bloody winter?!

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