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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     
    ....if you're belting down a hill like Pentonville Road / City Road etc and the f****** chain snaps?
    You're obviously f*****!
    White Lion Hill onto the Embankment doesn't bear thinking about.
    I've just acquired a fixie. I can't ride it yet but I'm considering switching to it for summer. Having been dumped in the Aldwych and the Marylebone Road at speed by broken cranks in the past, the prospect of a chain breaking scares the crap out of me. I suppose I could get the drill out but I don't want to do that.
    I know chains shouldn't snap on a downhill stretch but I need some reassurance.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     
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      CommentAuthor24tee
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     
    :rolling:
    • CommentAuthorbum
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     
    That's not even the worst of it. Have you seen Crimewatch? The streets are infested with murderers, paedophiles, muggers and all kind of hoodlums, ragamuffins and ne'er do-wells. Best just to stay at home and lock the doors.
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      CommentAuthorBuffalo Bill
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010 edited
     
    If you're that worried, either learn how to stop by putting your foot on the rear tyre or simply fit a front brake.

    http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/are-brakes-for-flakes

    Or fit a decent chain. I use one of those BMX chains, with the funny-shaped side-plates. Seems pretty strong. But then I only use it for polo.
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    ...that's what you have to do:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV4MJok1_2o
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    bill are you talking about the kmc kool chain?

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    Yeah, that's the one. First time I fitted one of those, I put it on upside down.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2010
     
    Hey Marco!
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    For a polo bike, I dont think it matters which way up you put it, other than for aesthetic purposes. It was designed for smoother sprocket grinds, not an issue unless youre doing awesome rad stunts on your polo bike!
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    Yo Jhon!...some italian style for you guys...
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2010 edited
     
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    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2010 edited
     
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2010 edited
     
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2010 edited
     
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    • CommentAuthorRapattack
    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2010
     
    I hope your not drinking again Curly. You had started to makes sence ;)
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    Hi Curly!...crazy days squatting Rover House!...

    @ Toby Wong...even more dangerous than a broken chain is a loose chain, a few years ago coming down Charing X into Trafalgar Sq. at a considerable speed, my chain jumped making my bike freeweel and as I put my right foot on the back tyre to slow down, the chain winded up the cog suddendly locking the wheel...luckily enough I was youn and fit with good skidding skills to save my teeth...and in that case a front brake would have made it worst!
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      CommentAuthor24tee
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2010
     
    @Toby Wong, may I suggest steering towards the nearest lamp post and grabbing it with both arms, tight.

    I've had a loose chain come off twice, and for the third time this afternoon coming down Croom's Hill in Greenwich - skidded safely to a halt before I even had time to properly panic. I don't know, maybe there is a case for having a brake.
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    I actually think it's more dangerous to forget that you're on a fixie. My classic was on day three, and involved my daily ritual of standing up on the pedals to look at the water as I crossed the Regent's Canal in Dalston. The next thing I can remember is my head hitting some railings HARD. I can still remember the sound it made to this day, like my head was a giant bell that had just struck One O Clock.
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2010 edited
     
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    Toby the simple answer is fit a front brake, then if it snaps and doesn't get caught in anything (yeh right, like thats gonna not happen!) you can simply gently brake to a stop, and go back to retrieve your chain. No brakes aint for me - good luck brakeless crew
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2010
     
    freewheel FTW
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2010
     
    "My classic was on day three, and involved my daily ritual of standing up on the pedals to look at the water as I crossed the Regent's Canal in Dalston. "

    Strange you should say that, my first "fixwheel incident" was in exactly the same spot, dunno how I didnt come off, saw a massive pothole in the road and instinctively tried to freewheel over it... ooops!
    • CommentAuthorsol
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2010
     

    yeah, just fit a brake, no point going brakeless just for the heck of it if it makes you stressed

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      CommentAuthorSsilverR
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2010
     
    i personally have never ridden a fixie .. but in theory ... it's a guaranteed s**tstorm on wheels ... pentonville rd? .. try highate O_O .. i had to drop to there once ... coming back was fun tho :P
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    brakeless is for pussies. brakeless with no lockring is for real men
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    It's possible to do a cog without a lockring so tight that it won't come loose on the road, I've seen it done and done it myself. You (sort of) take the wheel off and twist the chain around the pedals and puuuuush. Guaranteed.

    i am a real man.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeJun 23rd 2010
     
    Best not to get confused when,screwing a lockring on,and getting a crucial consonant wrong.My riding style has never been the same!
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    "It's possible to do a cog without a lockring so tight that it won't come loose on the road, I've seen it done and done it myself. You (sort of) take the wheel off and twist the chain around the pedals and puuuuush. Guaranteed.

    i am a real man. "


    A real man? Looks like your into "doing" slack "rings" mate. If youve done it and its guaranteed, I'll take your word for it. Doubt its everyones cup of tea though. Lets not even get into the "puuuuuushing" Ahem...
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    zerofivezero

    i don't like you.

    i'm glad i don't know you
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    :middlefinger:
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    you would have to be a hell of a schmuck to be this rude to someone you don't know

    if you wish to simulate the experience (of knowing me), I suggest you try the following.............

    1. make a pointless "smart aleck" comment.
    2. slam your head repeatedly against a wall.
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    Please dont take me too seriously bro, couldnt help myself. It was the "real man" thing combined with the "tight rings" business that sparked me off.
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    Captinkhaos, brilliant film, reminds me of the alleycat, "meet farmer joe." The last intersection you went through with no hands, no feet, wobbling through the oncoming traffic, i couldn't believe it, and you won, beating me and donny to the meat market. I went to shake your hand in disbelief and realised you were also wearing a blindfold. Long live Marco!
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2010
     
    ive road with out a lock ring used it on the inside to get the chain alignement a few inatial scary moments thank god for the front brake
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2010
     
    "ive road with out a lock ring used it on the inside to get the chain alignement "
    How is that possible as the thread is reversed.
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2010 edited
     
    old type BB lockring? do they fit?
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    I think I've got curly's binary code worked out...

    1 = written while drunk
    0 = written while sober
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    "It was the "real man" thing combined with the "tight rings" business that sparked me off. "

    Lack of imagination in the bedroom department, methinx.
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    I imagine a normal trip to Evans might become quite complicated if you start openly denouncing everyone of conducting same-sex unions in the sock aisle and cruising by the Campag cabinet.

    You don't work for Pink by any chance?...
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    Okay, this is all getting a bit too homophobic for my liking. The implication that a man who isn't straight is not a real man and how same-sex unions are worthy of being denounced.

    Not liking this thread any more.
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    man-love by the mudguards
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    vogueing by the v-brakes?

    something should be done....

    ask zero-five-zero
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2010
     
    Cottaging behind the cog-rack.
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      CommentAuthorShedhead
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2010
     
    tugging on the chain-tug
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    "being fabulous" with a frame-builder
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    I hope all this answers your question Toby
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      CommentAuthorzerofivezero
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2010 edited
     
    You bunch of lycra wearing kn*b jockeys...


    "Lack of imagination in the bedroom department, methinx."

    If "imagination" boils down to 'doing' your sprocket the 'wrong' way, Im thinking you are lacking something other than imagination.


    :thumbup:

    ^ [complimentary thumb up the A**]

    :winkkiss:
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    zerofivezero

    you again

    fuckoff

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