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     Hexangler |
This is my 1970's Raleigh Grand Sport, 531 double butted, Carlton Racing Manufacturer, 10 speed that I have been converting to fixed gear. I am pleased with it enough to show it off with these midnight spy photos! (note to self...no coffee after noon.) I will be posting to this site soon: *****INTERNET BIKE PORN FILTER ALERT***** http://fixedgeargallery.com/ *****INTERNET BIKE PORN FILTER ALERT***** Enjoy! Hex      | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
I dig the seat. Get some matching tires and it will look sweet. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Are those special Tour de France bars and grips? | ||
| Squidbuzz |
Yes, that's a great idea for the Buell lock. I will have to add that to my rides. And yes, Brooks saddles rock. I have a few of them on my rides. (Message edited by squidbuzz on June 18, 2009) | ||
| Thetable |
You got the bars on rotated 180* backwards. Pursuit bars work so well on the fixies I have had in the past. And what are those lever things for? Fixies don't need no stinkin' brakes. Just messin', she looks good. | ||
| P_squared |
What's the idea behind making it a fixed gear bike? I don't understand it.  | ||
| Hexangler |
Yup, I'm in the process of switching to 700c from 27 inch rims, and soon will be getting an upgraded front wheel. But, what I really want is a wider set of rims to stuff some big tires in this big frame. I think I can easily fit 700c x 35mm wide knobbies for flying full speed across the lawn in the park. But I'll have to have a set of custom wheels made for it, and that will probably run $600 for the right stuff. This bike is so smooth, light, and silent. Now being fixed geared, the rider-bike-road feedback is substantially greater than with a freewheel. It's a wonderful experience IMHO. When I hopped on the Buell for a parts run for the first time in a week, it felt like a 400 pound, unresponsive, metal sled (until I got up to speed and used to it again). Does anyone have experience with Hardcourt Bicycle Polo, or Grassfield Bicycle Polo? I'm in the process of making a mallet, and am going to try to find a game here in Roseville, CA. | ||
| P_squared |
So you did it to play bicycle polo? Kind of along the same lines as 'beach' bikes? Never thought about that. Might have to look into it as it sounds/looks like fun. | ||
| Hexangler |
Oh, and those bars are Townie style not pursuit. They allow me a nearly upright setting position with one hand on the bars. With my polo mallet in hand, it is very easy to stand stationary, and even ride backwards. Realize I'm 43, so getting back on the bicycle, in any configuration, is an accomplishment on its own. Riding with breaks in the real world is smart. I'll probably get rid of the rear one as I gain more control over the machine. Having a rear break and a fixed gear used in combination, has taught me in just a couple of weeks how to control a skid stop on these skinny tires. | ||
| Thetable |
I know, I was just messing. Anything that gets you to ride. Hell, I haven't even taken my fixie out since her last courier race in B-more, something like 10+ years ago. | ||
| Ourdee |
This is my bike for the neighborhood. Congrats. on getting on a bike after 40. Brakes, we don't need no stinkin' brakes. I like fixxes. I made this one after studying pictures of an 1879 Open Head Excelsior Duplex. The wheel is 51". On this stoppies are called headers. I like your bike.  | ||
| Hexangler |
Drool!!! Beautiful build! I really want to try a big wheel some day! | ||
| Damnut |
I have to post some pictures of the "Big Wheel" that I saw on Saturday. Took the family out to Cape Cod to ride the bike path and there was a guy riding one of those. Talk with him a bit about it and took some pictures. he was saying it was from the 1880's. It had the original brass hub on it. | ||
| Aldaytona |
What a beautiful frame. I rescued a 70s Raleigh "World Champion Replica" a couple of years ago with a latex paint job over the original paint. I stripped it to bare, and had a new paint job, re enameled the Raleigh badge. New wheels, bars, seat. Made the best looking track bike at our Velodrome. Hand made brazed, lugged, chromemoly frames rule. | ||
| Aesquire |
SWEET! Put on some knobbies....( wear a helmet! ) I hardly ride a drop bar bike anymore, and the knees are too shot to ride a fixed gear, but that's sweet. Highwheelers.... that takes big ones. See Buster Keaton in "The General" for some of the best riding I've seen. ( really, if you haven't seen "The General" go rent it! ) I was one of the early nuts doing "matise" (bastard) where we took racers & made half cyclocross/half roadrace machines with touring chainsets & knobbies. Now it's all commercial and sold as Hybrids. The "original" idea, we read, was a design to ride up & down the fireroads that infest the CA hills. When Mt Tam and other great spots were closed, some of the best riding was hard to drive a car to, and a mountian bike would burn you out long before the "real" ride. We discovered in the Eastern wood that on singletrack, a hybrid was faster than a mountain bike, right up until it suddenly wasn't. When the terrain hit a certain roughness, the mountain bike was still going. Then suspensions got better, and now large wheels are back with better tires..... it's a cycle with cycles it seems. Most of the hybrids sold are low level clunkers for around town, but a good one is the most versatile machine around, and deceptively fast. ( with aero rims & bar ends, my Stowe Rhino has surprised a few on the Canal path ) For classics though, you can't beat the lugged frame with magically butted tubing. I really have to haul out my old Austro-Daimler Olympian...maybe I can still bend that far over...( mix of Cennelli, Campy, etc.) Anyone need a set of decent 27" tubulars rims & 2 pair tires..unglued, virgin? | ||
| Ceejay |
Ourdee-did you build that rim? Straight lacing is way cool(It may be the way they were built back then I dunno-but I like it). regardless if you laced the rim the bike is tits and looks to be a great time. I strung up a few straight lacers, but they never seem to last as long with my wieght and penchant for trying things I shouldn't... | ||
| Ceejay |
I always liked the idea of a fixie, but always end up slapping the hugis back on as I found I couldn't hop curbs and park benches very well | ||
| Bikertrash05 |
Ah, bicycles, my other 2 wheel fix. Don't have a fixie, or even a single speed (yet), but I am just joining the 29er club, donor bike arrived today, just waiting on the frame. The donor bike's frame just might become my single speed cheapo build. Here is my Old School cool, '89 SM600:  (Message edited by BikerTrash05 on June 19, 2009) | ||
| Ourdee |
Ceejay, I had to make a machine to make the rim, and a machine for mounting the tire that is held on by a wire inside it. I laced the wheel radially because that was accurate for this bike. I've done triple cross lacing that is better as far as suspension that can handle shock and I've done a three forward three reverse pattern  that looks better than a standard triple cross but uses the same length spokes as triple cross. The three forward three reverse has the added benefit of keeping the spokes from touching each other so that you don't loose energy from that. Do you like the clear wheel discs? They are allowed in the Stock Class in HPRA. I ordered the spokes for the highwheel from a guy in California, but I had to tell him how long I wanted them. I got the extruded rubber from a guy out in the middle of nowhere in Indiana. Now I feel like a thread jacking •••••. I personally would keep the 27 inch rims because the tires will handle rougher roads than the 700c tires. (just my personal opinion) My favorite sport used to be getting on my friends fix he used for training and riding his rollers. Makes you learn smooth. | ||
| Hexangler |
Ourdee, your not thread jacking, very interesting, indeed! I will keep the 27 inchers for use if I put it back together as a 10 speed, I have all the parts still. But I disagree about the 27's being any better than the 700's. Every style, size, color, tread pattern, rim type and width are available in the 700c size. Not much left for the 27's. I can even make a taller wheel/tire combination in 700c than 27" with the new stuff (rims and tires) that are available now. You guys should check out the link to the fixed gear gallery in my first post, every day there are 6 to 10 "new" bikes! | ||
| M2statz |
Nice bell! Hope you don't have to use it often. I used to commute over 5500 miles a year on a Giant ATX 1070. Wife needed the cager for work so being the starving college student I got to pedal! | ||
| Ourdee |
OK, here is a short wheelbase front wheel drive. I hit 41.9 mph in a rolling start drag race on it. Best I've ever did. I had about a hundred dollars tied up in it. Different shifters and pedals in this pic.  | ||
| Ceejay |
Cool stuff! I've been wanting to build a single for a while now, which would help with the radial as they wouldn't need the dish then but I can't bring myself to cut up my Rocky Mountain though, as I'd like to put horizontals in too. Still don't think I could bring myself to do a fixed gear though, as every time I'be riden them I've about killed myself trying to get back on the sidewalk. Never tried a recumbant type, sounds like they can be straight line missles. | ||
| Moxnix |
Holy Roller. Good monicker. Remember a '41 Studebaker hot rod coupe with that name painted on it; upset the Pentacostals, but sounded right. | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
My old man is a recumbent nut. Has been since the late '70s. This was before there was an official recumbent industry. I remember heading off to Corvallis Oregon (capital of recumbent cycling) every so often to pick up a new toy. His first bike was one of Brian DeFelice's prototypes. For those in the know this was a big deal. It was an extremely long wheelbase bike that would cover distance quite capably. Sadly the company folded in the late 80's, but when he decided to Ebay it he got more money for it then he paid 20 years earlier. My mother had a prototype of the UK Trike. I rode that thing everywhere. You couldn't stop without a crowd gathering It looked similar to these http://www.recumbenttrikestore.com/recumbenttrike2 .html My mother also has a Gold Rush replica. Hers was bike #3. The first 2 were used to set a world speed record. Funny thing is she used it to tootle around the neighborhood. I always found that funny, as it was an extreme performance machine. http://www.bicycleman.com/recumbents/easy_racers/e asy_racer_grr.htm He also had on of the first Bike E's http://www.bicycleman.com/recumbents/bike_e/bike_e _at.htm His most interesting bike was a custom built Rans Screamer Tandem. http://www.ransbikes.com/2005bikes/Screamer.htm They visited the factory to design a separate gear system, so my folks could select separate gearing to rear tire. This bike also had hydraulic brakes, and later on when my mothers knee, and fathers hip started going I electrified it. I used a german Heinzmann kit designed for pedicabs. It could pull 400lbs up almost any grade hill. By the time we were done he had about $7500 into it  His current daily rider is a Ran Cruz. Since his hip replacement he can only ride with a unique foot position. So far this is the only bike that works. http://www.ransbikes.com/Cruz09.htm On top of the bikes we had an original Seacycle. A recumbent peddle boat. I peddled that thing all over Puget Sound. I kinda of miss it.  http://www.meyersboat.com/seacycle/ | ||
| Ourdee |
I built my first recumbent in 74 or 75. When I built the Holy Roller I was hanging out with Don Barry when I could sneak into where he worked. He had started a company called Infinity Cycles. He let me study their race bike without the fairings on it. Holy Roller is very close to what was underneath. Only in chromoly not aluminum. The riding position is a sprinting position rotated backwards till your feet are in front of you. A lot of kids sacrificed their pride racing the fat guy in the parking lot of the park in Plainfield, In. It had a big sticker on the boom that said,"will race for food". The hub on the front has a roller brake from an F1 MeerKat. I won some races in the alleys in Indianapolis on it prior to it giving up the ghost for this iteration. | ||
| Hexangler |
Got a new front wheel and tire. Decided on the 700c x 30 Schwable CX Comp Cyclocross tire. I got the new tire on sale at Bike Biz in Sacramento for $17. The wheel was $70. Now, it does everything that I wanted! I can sail over the lawns in the park full speed. The front is also very stable and corners very well on dry dirt. It rides very much like my speedway motorcycle's front end did, rigid, yet with good traction. Here's some pix:   ps, I made a mallet as well, and have been practicing Hardcourt and Grassfield Bicycle Polo.  | ||
| Mr1spd |
We used to play bike polo in Nebraska. We played a ton in the snow. | ||
| Ryanhook |
Sweet bike! I built a fix gear over the winter  | ||
| Mr1spd |
Wow nice bike let me show you the one I built 3 years ago. But first a few to warm u up. polo bike....  |
