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thanks Tiswas, the point of this was to got straight to the point, rather than for it to come up several pages of comments later.
With more and more people getting on brakeless bikes sooner and sooner, without the understanding that if they were in an incident they would have very little in the form of the law and rights on their side.
What if the worst happened and you couldn't use your legs after an accident that wasn't your fault but due to the court noting that you had an illegal bicycle on the road you are unable to receive any compensation from the drivers insurance...
Its a horrid and harsh point but people have to know what they are getting into. Dont they?
ive never ran a brake on a fixed gear, i pretty much went from a brakeless bmx (with a free wheel obv) to a brakeless fixed wheel. no problems at all bacause i was used to the old foot in the back wheel trick before i had learned to effectivly skid stop.
i think its pretty funny when you see someone on there new fixie with no breaks or foot retention and how their expression changes when they get to a cross roads and realise they cant do that skiddy stop thing that those guys they saw on youtube can do.
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I did a little sketch to represent what I mean.... Why not make one of these for track riding? Just a simple sprocket to sprocket system for the drive and no need for seatstays, chainstays, chain, forks etc..... It could shorten the wheelbase quite a lot too.
I was thinking having a metal steerer with long bolt through it like with a normal ahead headset. Use that bolt to preload your tension and then tighten the "stem bolt" to hold the steerer in place. So the fork that is holding the wheel is acting like a (ahead style) stem too.
But to be honest I think those guys at Look with their new carbon frames have it figured out and the way they make that stem hinge should work in this case too.
Several reasons. Mostly the UCI wouldn't like it, but also making a drive to a centreless wheel is really hard when you have to gear up, you end up with a spur gear train which is dramatically less efficient than a simple roller chain as currently used. Centreless wheels also suffer from huge bearing friction compared with conventional hubs. Shortening the wheelbase is undesirable, as the front wheel would be off the ground even for a pursuit start, and the bike would be unmanageable for sprinting.
i have said it before and i will say it again, there is a very good reason bicycle design has never really changed since the two triangle was invented.
bike snob said it first. all these avante garde flashy design shits should stay out of something they know nothing about.
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oh and one of the worst (with best outcome) when i was about 15 was my step father attempting to smash my fender telecaster against my bedroom wall (after i was very disrespectful). i thaught it was completely destroyed and with tears in my eyes i pulled it out from the drywall and plugged it in and it was still perfect, if slightly out of tune. 'haha, wanker!' i thaught as i peered into the bathroom through the nice new window he had made all the way through the wall.
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hey guys have got sum ski poles available here if anyone is interested £5 each
http://www.lfgss.com/thread52143.html
i live just near to audio if you want to pick up.
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price drops all round.