I remember seeing a pic of a old c-track with some OG bullmoose and it looked pretty sw8
I know who owns this bike
Actually, Jerome/Jeezy from the sweet fixie aughts
Jerome is fucking rad. Super nice guy.
Yeah he is
Can one of youse post the picture of the bike already?
My wife has a Brompton, and definitely recall that feeling switching between the Bullitt and Brompton. It hasn’t crossed my mind in awhile though, so I suspect it will feel OK after a bit
[quote=deadforkinglast]Saw a dude on a brakeless steel fixie with one of these slammed right on top of the headset on my commute a few days ago:
TC thought it looked pretty fucking sw8, even though I wish it was about 50mm wider.[/quote]
I want some of those in 800mm widthway.
My wife has a Brompton, and definitely recall that feeling switching between the Bullitt and Brompton. It hasn’t crossed my mind in awhile though, so I suspect it will feel OK after a bit[/quote]
Yeah I definitely got used to it. I kinda had to make a mental note every time I got on the track bike to very deliberately not use actually use the handlebars to steer for the first few blocks. Leaning only. Then I’d get my bearings again and could start getting cutty.
I made some vise jaw blanks for a job that were like 15" long and 3" tall but somehow I counterbored them slightly too small. So I was gonna just quickly open the bore up like .010" with a drill I made the right size and I got 3/4 holes done on the pair and on the last hole it grabbed and I was only holding the jaw with my hand and I helicoptered that shit. Luckily my e stop reflexes are good. Threw the drill press head all out of alignment but other than that no significant damage to anything. Got pretty lucky. Still not sure what went wrong though which is kind of bothersome
I finally went for a ride today. Only 20 miles. After flying down the hill from my house, I realized that I, um, forgot my batteries. Instead of going back I kept going, so I single speeded the whole thing in 48/14 (or whatever, third smallest cog).
You’re making me reconsider di2 on my stoemper. I seriously fear forgetting to charge…my bike.
Counterpoint:
you already love singlespeed bikes and the worst case scenario with roboshifting is that you wind up with a singlespeed for a ride.
di2 batteries last so long. If you can remember to charge a battery once every 2-4 months you’ll be fine. Di2 also kills the front dangler first when battery is low, so you get like 200 rear shifts to get you home before you’re fully sol.
Etap has a much much shorter battery life for its individual pods (like 15-60 hours of use).
Oh I’m doing 1x anyway
My battery was in the charger, so I did indeed remember to charge my battery. Leaving the battery in the charger is a whole other level of dumb that only I am capable of.
that kinda defeats the point of di2 tho
this banter makes me hate di2 even more
nope, I’ve never ridden it
I don’t want my bike to need batteries though.
SQ: can you run di2 off a dynohub?
that kinda defeats the point of di2 tho[/quote]
I wouldn’t be doing di2 other than it’s the cheapest way for me to get this bike on the road. And it’s flossy and clean.
[quote=kmcdon]this banter makes me hate di2 even more
nope, I’ve never ridden it
I don’t want my bike to need batteries though.
SQ: can you run di2 off a dynohub?[/quote]
There was a review of a Chapman in BQ a couple issues ago that ran both a light and di2 from a hub. Seems like a lot of kludging to achieve something you could accomplish by using any of the excellent mechanical shifting groups out there