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On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard: the light is beckoning you to return to the purity of your youth, > forego compromises, and once again ride fixed. Don’t be swayed by the siren > call to compromise with the mechanical complexity of a freewheel; get an > ENO hub and enjoy single speeding in its fixed purity. > > I’ll stop kidding. Single speed, fixed or free, is very liberating, and, > moreover, one discovers that one can do so much more with just one very > carefully chosen gear than imagined before. I did not resurrect my Monocog > 29er ss, but I did have a lot of fun on it, with a 65” single freewheel > gear that was good for 8/10 of my riding, mostly flatland but very sandy > bosque trails and roads. With ss, most things are a compromise, but 65” for > me (and 63”, IIRC, with my first Monocog 29er circa 2010, and 64” with the > even nicer converted ~1990 Diamond Back Axis Team fixed gear (ENO hub) all > let me spin comfortably on flats, plug through sand (fat tires, of course), > and torque of many if not most hills, and walking the steeper bits was far, > far less bothersome than flailing despairingly in too low a gear on flats > and downhill. > > I started riding fixed in 1996 and shortly thereafter it became my > default; the Roadeo is a temporary, special-use compromise. > > On Sat, Nov 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM Richard Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am just so excited about this I need to share. I own a Clem L and a Gus >> and I love both. I end up riding the Clem a lot on what I call "the >> neighborhood route". It's just what it sounds like, a ride through nearby >> neighborhoods. It's attractive because if I ride every street in these two >> neighborhoods I get in 25 miles on traffic free roads and I am never more >> than 3 miles from home. It's dead flat and the closely spaced homes block >> most of the wind. I know it sounds boring but I can add in nearby gravel >> roads, single track and packed gravel paths. It works for me. But, the >> Roaduno really called to me when introduced. Having ridden a fixed gear >> road bike in my youth I was really intrigued by the thought of a very light >> & minimal not to mention fully lugged Rivendell. But I chickened out. So >> now for something completely different. Sitting in my garage for about 20 >> years is my first mountain bike. It's a 2001 Trek 6700 hardtail, a MUSA >> aluminum frame with a primitive suspension fork and 26" wheels. I am in the >> process of converting it to a fully rigid off road worthy light as hell fun >> bike. I have not switched out the fork yet but it is far along enough for a >> couple of "proof of concept" rides. Holy hell this thing is fun! It may be >> the antithesis of my and your Riv's but perhaps not. It really is in the >> spirit being so minimal and low tech and strikes me as a genuine "just >> ride" machine. My bars are high and it even has V brakes.:) Anyone have a >> Paul Melvin you are not using? >> Cheers, >> Richard >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/941f81b9-2873-48b2-a86b-17e4a5691229n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/941f81b9-2873-48b2-a86b-17e4a5691229n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing > services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* > > *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* > > *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* > -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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