Young Un
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I believe that Joe has two brake levers it's just that only one is conected.
Steve
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Tharg2007
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- Manchester
the fixed coversion looks like it has vertical drop outs, how did you get the chain tension? half link and magic gear or have you got a tensioner there, cant tell.
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Euan Uzami
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Tharg2007 said:
er.. which one. joe24's seems to have forward facing horz drop outs, youngun's has track ends.
unconnected lever a big no-no in my book though! can't you connect it to some accessory, like an airzound maybe? although i just favour a rear brake personally.
Tharg2007
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- Manchester
zzpza said:magic gear ratio.it was going to be a singlspeed with a tensioner, but when i found out the gearing was magic, i went for a fixed wheel.
cool, can we have some close up shots of it? did you need to use a half link?
OP
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zzpza
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Tharg2007 said:
sure, it's a normal sram 7 speed chain with a power link. undoing the wheel nuts will allow you to wiggle the chain off, but it's easier (with the bike upside down) to lift the wheel out of the dropouts and then lift the chain off the chainring or sprocket. i'll go grab my camera...
Joe24
More serious cyclist than Bonj
- Location
- Nottingham
Young Un said:
I do indeed.
My left brake lever is just there for me to hold on to. If it wasnt there i would have to be climbing on the drops, which doesnt work for me all the time.
Plus whats fun with having a brake lever that is just there means you can go along clicking it when your bored, or tell someone its a turbo lever and when you pull it, you speed up(you then pull it and spin and accelerate off, then release it and slow back down)
Then watch the faces of the people and see if they beleive
I thought about bull horns though, but i would miss the drops so i just stick with what i got.
And my dropouts are indeed forward facing horizontal ones. Wish they were abit longer or i had proper track ends but never mind.
Im impressed with the magic gear
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Euan Uzami
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problem with magic gear is what if you move to a flatter or hillier area and want to change sprocket. ?
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Euan Uzami
Guest
Joe24 said:I do indeed.
My left brake lever is just there for me to hold on to. If it wasnt there i would have to be climbing on the drops, which doesnt work for me all the time.
Plus whats fun with having a brake lever that is just there means you can go along clicking it when your bored, or tell someone its a turbo lever and when you pull it, you speed up(you then pull it and spin and accelerate off, then release it and slow back down)
Then watch the faces of the people and see if they beleive
I thought about bull horns though, but i would miss the drops so i just stick with what i got.
And my dropouts are indeed forward facing horizontal ones. Wish they were abit longer or i had proper track ends but never mind.
Im impressed with the magic gear
just have the hood. save some weight
Joe24
More serious cyclist than Bonj
- Location
- Nottingham
Euan Uzami said:just have the hood. save some weight
But that will just look strange, and require effort to take the brake lever off.
Wouldnt look right either.
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Euan Uzami
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Joe24 said:
point being, to me it looks strange if it's not used anyway. it's basically an ornament
