Fixie or Single

[Fab Foodie]

FIXED..............SS is pointless

Here endeth the lesson

 

[Fab Foodie]

Touché!

http://www.pearsoncycles.co.uk/index.html?action=97

 

[hackbike 666]

Nope...Im quite happy with single speed now...Less maintenance.

 

[Guvnor]

still not decided, decisions decisions. I'll have to have a test ride on both and see how i get on. Cheers for the advice chaps.

 

[hackbike 666]

Go fixed and if you get bored with it go SS.

 

[jimboalee]

It is entirely possible to have two screw-on fixed sprockets on a screw-on hub with a lockring.
You will need 'butterfly' tracknuts.

When you get to a hill, you get off and change the chain to the larger sprocket by hand which will pull the rear axle into the horizontal dropouts.

When you clear the hill, you go back to the smaller sprocket.

S/S bikes are just as they say, but a fixed can be more than one gear.

 

[crumpetman]

Why has no one re-invented the fixed gear hub?

 

[vorsprung]

Until last xmas I was commuting 30 miles of Devon hills on a 70" single speed freewheel. The bike had drops and went like a rocket. I never felt like switching to fixed as

1) I'd heard it makes bike handling just that little bit more difficult I am already a fairly bad bike handler
2) my SS was built out of junk. A fixed would at least need a proper/new chain and sprocket to avoid mechanical horrors.

I have an Alfine 8 speed hub gear bike now for the winter/wet commute. It is slower than the SS

 

[Amanda P]

Why has no one re-invented the fixed gear hub?

Ahem.

 

[Arch]

Ahem.

I was going to say that!

 

[crumpetman]

Is it actually on sale anywhere?


Silly me, course it is. Anyone on here got one?

 

[srw]

When you get to a hill, you get off and change the chain to the larger sprocket by hand which will pull the rear axle into the horizontal dropouts.

Alternatively, you flick the little lever on your handlebars, and as if by magic your bike changes the sprocket for you!

Oh, and you're all wrong about trackstands. However good you are at them, they make you look like you're trying too hard, and don't give you any speed advantages off the lights. I'm almost always the fastest thing on the road from a standstill. I ride a three-speed Brompton and rarely stand up in the saddle. Oh, and I'm 50% heavier than most of the fixie riders I see.

 

[jimboalee]

Alternatively, you flick the little lever on your handlebars, and as if by magic your bike changes the sprocket for you!

Oh, and you're all wrong about trackstands. However good you are at them, they make you look like you're trying too hard, and don't give you any speed advantages off the lights. I'm almost always the fastest thing on the road from a standstill. I ride a three-speed Brompton and rarely stand up in the saddle. Oh, and I'm 50% heavier than most of the fixie riders I see.

What ARE you talking about?

Never, never, never put a derailleur or chain tensioner on a fixed wheel bike.


When you apply reverse thrust, the chain tightens the tensioner and give loads of slack in the top stretch of chain between top of sprocket and chainring, and the chain flys off immediateley.

Go to the back of the class.

 

[Origamist]

What ARE you talking about?

Never, never, never put a derailleur or chain tensioner on a fixed wheel bike.


When you apply reverse thrust, the chain tightens the tensioner and give loads of slack in the top stretch of chain between top of sprocket and chainring, and the chain flys off immediateley.

Go to the back of the class.

srw is not suggesting you put a tensioner on a fixed wheel bike - he is questioning the so called benefits of riding fixed.

 

[srw]

...and single speed.