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Sand and more sand, WvA will go away and practice bunny hopping. Dire commentary as per usual from Marty MacDonald, it really is shit and I've heard some bad ones.
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Not seen dropouts like that before, interesting.
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Will have a look, don't want to pay a lot though, I bought this bike on Ebay, I've done all the work on it myself including building a wheel without spending much at all. It's funny, you go out on a ride and carbon bikes with disc brakes and 50-60mm deep wheels are ubiquitous round here. My humble fixed has had so many comments from the aforementioned, the most common being "nice bike".
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Just had a quick gander, some very odd-looking bikes there.
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Aluminum track nuts, didn't know they existed, surely a contradiction in terms. I've stripped alu threads with half the force I do my track nuts up with.
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Agreed, never had mine slip either. it makes you wonder why anyone sells them, however, I live out in the sticks and Oct - Nov is hedge cutting time as in Hawthorn and Blackthorn and I ride a lot in the dark. In case of a puncture I carry a short 15mm spanner with me with which I cannot get the same amount of torque on the nuts, hence a single chain tug on the drive side for peace of mind.
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I can see 2 ways to sort this out, message the Ebayers and get them to measure their chain tugs or buy a couple and fashion the back plate myself, though I'm thinking that any metal worker could knock one up in 5 mins.
I have zero knowledge of BMX so I have no idea if their dropouts are especially thick, is there anyone on here who has that experience? I know my bike is a bit special but didn't realise it was so different in reference to the dropouts. Just had a look at my other fixed, a Pearson, and the dropouts are within the same width [no chain tugs] so not that unusual after all. Given that the Pearson is not a rare bike, mine's a Touche if anyone here has one with chain tugs on other than surly's I would be grateful to know what they are.
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Bike/frame is a Brian Rourke 853, chrome forks and dropouts, driveside chainstay also chromed. The chrome on the dropouts probably accounts for the extra thickness. I tried one from my friendly lbs mechanic, a fairly bog standard sort of thing you see on Ebay but it was 1mm too narrow and also too thin to file down. I am aware of the surly and the like but too much money and for me a bit too fancy for a bike {in my humble opinion] with such beautiful clean lines.
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This is a where to find question, the dropouts on my fixed are 8.1mm thick, anyone know where I can obtain chain tugs that will slot over these?
Long time fixed rider out in the sticks