Thanks everyone! I have identical twin boys so there is actually two
helpers wrenching a way, just never captured the "teamwork". I love that
they enjoy riding as much as they enjoy wrenching, its so fun sharing the
love with them! (Ford & Duke)
The color is unknown to me, I asked Rick Stepha
Yeah...love the new color; what is it? Eggplant comes to mind. That is a
very classy upgrade indeed And your son looks like a pro wrenching away on
the bottom bracket. Nice👍
On Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 10:26:50 AM UTC-5 amill...@gmail.com wrote:
> Love it, Z. How’d you pick the colors? What
Love it, Z. How’d you pick the colors? What colors are they?
Looks better than new. 👌🏻
Best,
Aaron in El Paso
On Jul 20, 2022, at 09:21, iamkeith wrote:
Very nice. I'm slowly restoring my well-used quick beam, trying to decide on
the right shade of brown/red paint too. Looks great.
On Tu
i'm a little curious about this set up as well. i love my SO, but as we are
wont to do, tinkering is never far from thought. though luckily my lacking
wallet should keep my SO a 1x1 for the foreseeable future.
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It looked like it was working great when he visited Austin a couple of
months ago and rode a 100K RUSA permanent populaire with about 5 other guys
including myself. Him and another Rivendell rider on a geared custom rode
off the front on the way back from the turnaround. Although they ended up
beh
Another one who is totally jealous. There is now an "out" if I ever get
bored with my current setup on the SimpleOne.
Eric Platt
St. Paul, MN
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Ron Mc wrote:
> the cold-set itself is only 1/3-inch on each side - the trick to it is
> keeping the alignment. Great-
Here's a first photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16461051@N04/7854475750/in/photostream
This thing pedals SO quietly, I'm able to sneak up on deer... I rode it
for a few miles tonight on the crushed stone path along the Delaware River
south of Lambertville/New Hope... I didn't want to stop,
John: beside basically sound knees to begin with, climbing hills in
relatively high gears is largely a matter of (1) habituation, (2)
position -- rearward saddle position promoting low cadence, high
torque pedaling, and (3) technique -- knowing when your knees require
you to stand, knowing how to p
I've often wanted to try pegs on a fixed gear for coasting, like on this
old beauty:
http://events.mnhs.org/Timepieces/SourceDetail.cfm?SourceID=694
But how?
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:48 PM, clyde canter wrote:
> I have came to accept that occasionally walking up (and sometimes down)
> hills i
I have came to accept that occasionally walking up (and sometimes down)
hills is part of the ss/ fixed gear experience.
I think that adds to the beautiful simplicity of such a bike. Just my two
cents.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:19 PM, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> I agree: the long axle slot, prefer
I agree: the long axle slot, preferably sloped to match the angle of
the rim, to ensure continuing brake pad alignment, is the darling.
For my part, on this DB off road fixie, I removed the rear brake.
(Hacksawed off the seatstay canti posts too, dammit! -- for that clean
and uncluttered look.Turn
For gear changes like you mentioned you just cant beat that longish slot
on the QB/ SO. There's really nothing better available...IMO. You really
have to have a LOT of brake slot available to have many gear options with
the ENO (IMO anyway). I suppose one could have more than one chain for
diff
The downsides are (1) it can interfere with rear brake pad positioning
if you switch between cogs of different sizes; and (2) it can make the
tire crowd the brake bridge. This happened to me on the ** cut down,
dremeled, hacksawed, mutilated Rivendell ** fixed gear conversion (my
'94/5 Waterford 26
I own a Quickbeam and LOVE it. I should have stated so in my post. It is
by far my favorite and most intelligently designed SS bike I own (one of
two dedicated SS's and 3 geared conversions.) Of my V-dropout conversions
I like Sheldon's short axle solution best. Apologies for contributing to
the
Dang! That's neat you brought that up. White should use the wheelbase
aspect as a selling point. I found "that" the coolest thing about the ENO
hubthe fact you get a centemeter of play for tire clearance. If you
get the ring/ cog combo to work by having the wheel down and rearward you
can
Ha! I have an eccentric ENO hub on my Cross-Check with long horizontal
dropouts. Now I can adjust through a more or leas continuous spectrum of chain
tension, wheelbase, BB height, and trail. I should send it to Jan for
scientific analysis!
(PS: I had the wheel in a v-dropout fixie before I got
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Amen to that one! I use it whenever I am passed by a younger man or
woman on a racing bike.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:03 PM, EricP wrote:
> Plus, a single speed is a great excuse why I can't keep up with faster
> riders. Which is just about every body else out there.
>
> Eric Platt
> (Counting
" I further state, asseverate, insist, proclaim,
announce and assert that fixed gears can certainly be wonderfully
practical errand and commuter bikes!"
I agree, absolutely.
lyle
On 10 April 2012 15:51, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> For me, the most appealing thing about riding fixed -- and I am, for
For me, the most appealing thing about riding fixed -- and I am, for
once, completely serious -- is that it gives you no other options when
you reach that hill or turn into that wind except adapting your riding
style to the new conditions. I never understood what they mean by
"feeling more 'at one'
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Subject: Re: [RBW] Re: SimpleOne
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Imladris wrote:
> Whenever I get the urge to own a "fixie", I just start riding in one
> gear and never stop pedaling. Then, when I hit a steep uphill or
> downhill, the urge passes and I shift.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Imladris wrote:
> Whenever I get the urge to own a "fixie", I just start riding in one
> gear and never stop pedaling. Then, when I hit a steep uphill or
> downhill, the urge passes and I shift. ;-)
>
> As a practical question, why couldn't a Rambouillet (or a Ro
Yes, even though the axle is longer on my one single speed wheel, it's had
no problem holding up my 230 pounds even with panniers and gear.
FWIW, a Phil freewheel hub has a long axle on the non-drive side to make a
low dish wheel. Have one on my Sam Hillborne and it has held up just fine
unde
My ss/fixed hubs are all spaced 126, 130 or 135: never a problem even
with heavy rear loads. I weigh 175 and often carry 40 lb or so.
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:21 PM, ted wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Thanks for the info. I didn't know that flip flop hubs in the longer
> spacings were so readily available.
>
This explains my question to Ted earlier.
FWIW, in response to the poster who decried his mtb conversion
experience, I converted a nice old top-of-line Diamond Back Axis Team
into a ss all rounder with 60 mm Big Apples, fenders with air and a
~63" gear. Felt and handled wonderfully, but of course,
Curious: apart from the rear spacing (and there are fixed/flip-flop
hubs available in 126, 130 and 135), why would the SO be better than a
converted road bike, touring or otherwise? I've converted many racing,
touring and mountain bikes to fixed/ss and found them wonderful.
Is it the handling? I k
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Corwin wrote:
> I would go with cork bar tape - no shellac. I did the shellac thing on
> my Quickbeam. Matched the saddle really well.
>
> But it turned out to be a maintenance nightmare. Subsequently, Mark
> turned me on to just cork bar tape.
>
> Advantages:
>
>
I am a self-confessed high handlebar guy, you will get guff from the "racer
boy" set out there who think anyone not riding with thier head below thier
read is not a "real" rider but do what is comfortable for you. Love the
look of the simple one, wish I could convince my wife to let me add another
P.S. S/O as in significant other, not Simple One.:D
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It's hard to say what percentage for each gear, but they each get used.I
go down to 32/22 in the woods, because we have rooty/rocky trails that go up
and down, and you don't want to go super fast in there anyway, even on long
descents, since you can't see very far and branches and things blo
I love the ride of the QB, but I like gears and never wanted to get off the
bike to shift. So I bought my QB with schemes of somehow making it a shifter.
Right now, it's a 3 speed shifted at the crank (24-36-46) with a front
derailleur and only one cog in the back. (I use a friction bar-end shi
How often do you shift your QB? You have 3 speeds with your setup, what
percentage of the time do you ride in each? I am guessing that one gets 80 or
90 percent of the use.
I really like the idea of my QB having two gears. I changed gearing once on a
ride just to see how quickly I could do
One of the great pleasures of riding fixed or ss is having to plan
ahead and pace yourself. Oh, and having to learn to climb standing for
longer stretches. I'm good for half miles but, back when I commuted
15+ miles into work on a fixed, I was good for (yessir!) 1 mile
stretches of standing. Again,
on 5/8/11 10:37 PM, A D at deguzman.al...@gmail.com wrote:
> Do you ride up to the peak in the 42-19 gear? I live a couple of
> miles from base of Mt Diablo on the Danville side but was always
> afraid to ride up on my low 44-19.
If the 44x19 is fixed, that's a pretty good gear for it. ~62 inch
on 5/8/11 10:05 PM, Jeremy Till at jeremy.t...@gmail.com wrote:
> Been using this setup or something similar for a few years now and
> really like it. Last weekend I rode it up Mt. Diablo in the 42-19
> gear, flipped to the freewheel to bomb the descent, and then back to
> the 42-17 fixed at the
Chainline is not an issue, unless you are a mid-century Brit... I run stock
chainrings, 32/40 and the 17/19 Dos. The limitation on the Quickbeam is my
Berthoud fender stays, which, strictly speaking, is not a Quickbeam issue.
They could be longer, to let me use the whole range. Low-profile fastener
I have an old bottom bracket nut on the freewheel-side hub threads before the
cog (14t in my case) which corrects the fixed chain line by moving the cog out
5mm. Been running it this way for 2 years with no problems. It's smoother and
quieter than the 16/19 on the freewheel side. I only run the
My QB has a 40/32 in front and the 16/19 in the rear. It also has a solo 22
back the which does come in handy when laden down with camping gear and facing
a couple of hills around here. In town I tend to run 40/19 because I can get
"off the line" faster in traffic. Once out on the open road it's
And if it's not sold by now, I'd be surprised. That's a beaut, and I'll bet it
has a kickstand plate, and it has the braze-ons for mini-racks front and rear,
and it has that great unique color.
One thing that often tempts me to get my older Rivendell repainted is the
opportunity to add those fu
It's under frame specials.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:33 PM, reidplum wrote:
> Sorry to be so clueless, but when I look at the web site, I can't find
> that frame. Where is it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Reid
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FWIW, my 52cm QB has a kickstand plate...from the last silver batch.
Steve
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