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martint235
Dog on a bike
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- Welling
Loving it as a freewheel singlespeed for commuting.
New Fixie
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martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Make???2802830 said:
And it is a fixie some of the time, just not on the commute!
todays' lesson was stopping and starting and the front brake hold/flip the crank to launch position was practised until i didn't have to think about it
stopping went well i started off picking a distance of 2 metres to stop in then cut that to 1 metre, not too fussed about the run on just brake harder
hills next
stopping went well i started off picking a distance of 2 metres to stop in then cut that to 1 metre, not too fussed about the run on just brake harder
hills next
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martint235
Dog on a bike
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- Welling
I've actually sorted the stopping bit. And I'm not too bad at setting off (kind of mastered a one-legged pedalling) but I'm still not comfortable with the idea of taking it out in heavy traffic.
rb58
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What do you think will happen?
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martint235
Dog on a bike
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There's just too much to concentrate on without worrying about pedalling
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martint235
Dog on a bike
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or attacked by one of the short people. And there's a fecking lot of them!2835475 said:
rb58
Enigma
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- Bexley, Kent
There's your problem. Stop worrying about it and just do it.
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martint235
Dog on a bike
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- Welling
Rightly or wrongly, I do go through some narrow gaps. The "reminder" that I've forgotten to pedal will probably be enough to take someone's wing mirror off!!
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The simple answer to that is to stay away from the narrow gaps,
just stop worrying about pedalling, personally I just leave the legs to get on with it.
Thegiantpeanut
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- Fareham, Hampshire
Just ride it, you soon pick up the whole fixed concept, just don't be too hasty taking the rear brake off. You have foot retention I presume so nothing can really go wrong.
philtalksbx
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+1 on just doing it.
I was surprised how quickly it came together. I still haven't quite mastered the elegant stop and dismount move but that will come.
Re Charge Plug - had one for a few months but sold it on - it is solid (quite heavy compared to a 531 road bike conversion) and simple (reliable). The geometry gives quite a shirt top tube so you sit quite upright which is good in traffic. I preferred the feel of the lighter bike and felt I got more power from the more forward position, so I kept that one.
I just put the new flip flop wheelset on today. One lap of the block shouldn't give me a grin like this at my age, ah well.
I was surprised how quickly it came together. I still haven't quite mastered the elegant stop and dismount move but that will come.
Re Charge Plug - had one for a few months but sold it on - it is solid (quite heavy compared to a 531 road bike conversion) and simple (reliable). The geometry gives quite a shirt top tube so you sit quite upright which is good in traffic. I preferred the feel of the lighter bike and felt I got more power from the more forward position, so I kept that one.
I just put the new flip flop wheelset on today. One lap of the block shouldn't give me a grin like this at my age, ah well.
