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I live in Plymouth and ride my Langster fixed all over Dartmoor 42-16 is fine for the moors. Pork hill from Princetown to Merryvale is a killer coming up, but going down :) 42mph and legs going like a cartoon! theres not many climbs that can beat me. have fun

I ride a 71 inch fixed every where here in Plymouth. I often do rides with YOGI cycle club 40-60milers and never get left behind, always spend my time at the front of the pack. Fixed in Plymouth is great fun, theres just not many of us around. I'd like to ride with other fixies instead of the club rides all the time (though they do keep me fit). PM me if your around for a ride one weekend (even if its just a tour of coffee shops).

My DMR

I got my Langster in May, I use it for the daily commute to work (Plymouth). a few months back I joined YOGI cycle club and started going on their leisure rides 40-50 milers around Dartmoor and Cornwall. The OTP gearing is perfect for this, I've not found a hill I can't ride up yet. I changed the bars for some bullhorns and found this much more comfortable.
The wheels have stayed true despite some big knocks on cavernous potholes.
I rode fixed from the day I got it despite the bemused looks of the bike shop staff!

I love my Langster, it restored my love of cycling and has put a bigger smile on my face than all the mountain bikes I've owned in the last twenty years.
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As soon as the snow and ice come properly, I'll be on my MTB. I rode every day of last winter through blizzards and roads frozen solid for weeks on my DMR. past abandoned cars and watched countless roadies fall. never once came off, but I really needed the option to freewheel at times. 23c's and black ice just don't mix

I just took delivery of a Electron Terra 1 light.

Fabulous, nice powerful clean white light, 10 hours runtime on full and up to 70 hrs on flashing!
good mounting bracket and reasonable connectors.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=55126

£59 from CRC

It seems bright enough for some non technical off road, it certainly makes drivers take notice earlier at junctions. It seems well made but the real test will be next time it rains hard. will see how good the connectors are then as I suspect water will creep into them

does anyone know of any reason why these won't work with my no brand brakes on my Langster steel 2009?

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I've always liked SRAM kit and now I'm looking to replace the stock levers with something better, followed in a couple of months by the rest of the brakes.

any sugestions on brake welcome, nothing to expensive as this is suposed to be a cheap commuting bike.

I ditched the drops for bull horns a while back and currently have the specialised own brand top mount levers mounted on the ends of the bullhorns. but I think proper TT levers will be better?

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bi-laiminated headtube;

That is a work of art!

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That Team Fat Chance is gorgeous.

Coggs have some fixies OTP and are starting to stock parts. I joined YOGI cycle club and started going for rides with then at the weekends, 40-50 milers all across dartmoor and out to the coast. I have to get off on a couple of the hills but I now make it up all but the steepest ones. I even manage to stay at the front of the group even though they all ride geared. They think I'm wierd.

Hi I'm looking for a big chainring for my Sugino Messenger chainset.

I have TT in Sept and my 46t is way to small for the course

I think the bcd on this chainset is 130?

I had a great ride yesterday, From Stoke out through town to Plympton. up th cycletrack to yelverton, road to Princetown, Princetown to Tavistock (hit 38.85mph on the way down to Merrivale Quarry! on my 42:17, now thats spining!) and finally Tavistock back home to plymouth.
I made it up all but one of the hills, had to push up the short steep section out of dousland as the road climbs onto the moors, pushed to the cattle grid. gutted I couldnt make it all the way up.

I got the steel Langster, kept the track drops and ride it every day and love every minute of it. I came straight from riding a DMR trailstar mountain bike to this so not a very good comparison but I tried a few bikes before I settled on the Langster.

For the price its not badly specced, welds are neat enough but nothing special. wheels seem ok and can take a little abuse, pot wholes and mangled cobbles at speed don't seem to have harmed them.

I took all but the langster stickers off outside the specialized store when i picked it up, the sales guy looked pissed of but the mechanic looked approvingly at it.

I find its comfy even on long rides, gearing is ok it spins out a bit too early on the downhills but then I need the low gearing here in Plymouth to get me up the hills!

good value overall and not too heavy

i live at the bottom of ford hill... wel actually up the other side, so down one far too steep hill and up another one straight away.

Yep that's not a good place to be living with a fixie. those hills are really steep. I'm commuting from Keyham to Derriford on mine and find that not too bad. I spin out a bit on the way home but its not a big issue

Yep That's Haldon hill, that ones a killer. A guy got done for speeding down there on his road bike. cops clocked him at 65mph. they charged him with reckless endangerment in the end

I got to say I dont find the hills an issue, I avoid Ford hill because its ridiculously steep. i tend to find easier routes even if they take a little longer. but generally the hills are not that bad. I was in Bristol at the weekend and rode up Park street no problem. When I have finished moving house I will get something organised down here if people are up for it.

use the assos creme (post #40 it works, I use it on MTB endurance rides. I used to get chaffed to hell in the heat of the summer on anything over 50 miles now I can ride all day with no problems.

it does feel like you've crapped yourself when you first start riding but that soon goes away

The MTB downhill scene is really big here, we have (i think) the biggest downhill club in the country "woodland riders" with 349 members.
There are quite a few hills here it's almost uphill all the way to work which is interesting on a fixie, but it is making me fitter.
I know from talking to the local bike shops that they are selling more fixies than they ever have.

so I hope some of them find their way to this and then maybe I can get something moving down here.

Thanks DaveH, the blog looks barely used and has no forum. you only appear to be able to comment on posts by the owner.

not really what I'm looking for.

LFGSS pulls in more users and will therefore hopefully allow me find enough people to make it worthwhile starting somthing up properly.

LFGSS come tops with most web searches and for that reason alone it's a good place to start.

Ok I've done some searches on the forums for people riding fixed in Plymouth and have not found anything.

Before I go investing my time and hard earned into hosting an independant site for Plymouth I thought I'd see how much interest there is.

I'm new to the fixed gear scene, ridden road bikes and MTB's for last 20 years and now I'm starting to enjoy the simple life. no gears fixed and happy.

I've only seen 3 other people in Plymouth on fixies but after talking to a lot of bike shop mechanics I know there are plenty more out there quietly getting on with riding their rigs.

So if you ride in Plymouth get posting, I'd love to hear from you and maybe meet for rides.

I use the "throwing it in front" method myself then ride past and pick it up Cossak style hanging off one side of the bike