Beautiful pictures, and a smart setup. I love my dingle cog, and need to set the Quickbeam up with two rings again. I'm glad the spill wasn't too costly.
I'm very pro QRs for dingle gear changes. I've used a wrench, but the quick release is so fast. Bill's technique with only undoing one side my be faster still, though - I haven't tried that. Get the Phil wheel! I have gotten out to a big hill and realized I'd left the wrench at home, though. Philip www.biketinker.com On Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 11:51:42 AM UTC-7, christian poppell wrote: > > > Gearing is achieved via a parts bin Shimano triple crank (110mm bcd) set > up with 40/36 and a 17/21 dingle on a QR Suzue fw/fw. I believe the dingle > is the greatest thing that has ever happened to fixed gear riding! There is > a 17t freewheel on the other side, mainly for descents. > > I took the bike for a ride over the Berkeley hills last night. Rode up > spruce st which is the main route for access to the hills from my area. Its > a nice residential road with good elevation gain. from there i dropped down > into wildcat canyon and rode the hard packed dirt trail up to Seaview > trail. Seaview is more rocky and sometimes loose with a few steeper grades. > I usually end up walking three sections on the lower portion before the big > concrete ring and vista. Not many people up there on a Friday evening. I > took a spill trying to avoid a few rocks which was surprising and a little > funny. Gave the bars a quick turn and found myself flying through the air > into the grass on the side of the trail. Banged up my knee and twisted the > bars around. Everything else was fine and since It wasn't bad laying in the > grass I sat there for a while and snapped a photo of the bike as it lay (or > lie?)! Deciding to leave the bag and other accouterments at home I rode out > through grizzly peak road and down Claremont Ave with Tilden Regional Park > maps stuffed in my shirt as a windbreak. It was a good way to spend a > Friday evening after working overtime all week. > > > > > > On Friday, May 12, 2017 at 5:13:22 PM UTC-7, christian poppell wrote: >> >> I've got a Quickbeam and I want to put a Phil rear hub on it. I'm >> wondering if anyone doesn't use a quick release on their Quickbeam? I'm a >> flipper and a flopper, change the gears fairly often and prefer the quick >> release I have on there now. So whats the general consensus from other >> manual gear changers? Is using tools a problem when changing or do you >> prefer the tool less approach? >> Thanks, >> Christian >> >> ps: I've used a quick release on a fixed gear for 10yr+ so naysayers need >> not say nay to FG QR :) >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
