as far as i’m aware, yes, from 2008
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huh. the front page at http://fixedgeargallery.com/ is down so i couldn’t navigate to pengy except via the internet archive, but i do see that the actuall page for pengy is still alive and active. one of those websites that isn’t fully offline but is slowly rotting, i guess
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Good to use archival link to have a persistent working one
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I agree. I thought there might also be a reason for diverting traffic. This forum has reasons, so I often default to think I’m none the wiser.
Well now I’m distracted because that random 2008 FGG link has my wife’s bike. So thank you for that little jog down memory lane.
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Alright gang I might need to be talked off the ledge here.
I built up this Nishiki Modulus as a fast hybrid and I am trying to determine whether or not it is the worst idea in the world to build up a 650b wheelset for it. Probably a bad idea because I don’t really have time to build wheels, but at the same time it looks like it would clear 42s and I am 584-pilled but everyone is saying it’s a dead wheel size but my main bike has 26" wheels so maybe I am too far gone?
Pictures? ATMO depends on how it slots into the rest of your stable. If it fits 28s or 32s and you don’t have another skinny-tired roadie kinda thing I’d leave as-is to serve that role. If it only clears 700x25 then I’d be way more tempted to put in some 650b x 38 or 40.
Damn Jimmy you got me. It clears 30mm G-Ones with ease and currently has the cromulent ultegra>open pro wheelset you sold me. I should just put on some more comfortable handlebars and that should be enough!
Edit: and my other bikes are a 90s mtb basket bike and a 650b disc dynamo whatever kind of bike so the nishiki definitely has its own thing going on in my stable
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agree with jimmy, leave as-is, use money saved by not buying wheels on v expensive skewers for 26 basket bike.
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I found one of these on the side of the road in a hard rubbish pile:
Gonna do some dithering.
The bad: shifters are fucked, one of them is snapped in half, straight in the bin. Bars are shit. The top of the steerer was a bit mangled and the star nut was destroyed but somehow still wedged in the steerer: I cut a couple cm off the steerer and now it’s fine. No chairpole or saddle. The rest of the group is Sora in reasonable condition but meh. Sora.
The good: it’s my size. The frame and fork are in really good nick, there are only a couple of scratches. The headset and BB are both tip top. The wheels are pretty standard low end road wheels (28h, for Igor’s survey) with brand new 25mm gators.
So to the dither: I’ve got a complete 6800 groupset which I can throw on there. I also have stem/bars/saddle/chairpole. I also have a set of Fulcrum 3s. Pretty sure I have a full set of good used cables. Gonna set myself a challenge of getting it on the road without spending an additional cent, and I reckon I’ll be able to do it.
NGL, I love faffing around with this kind of stuff.
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Faffing is what makes us human.
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28h wheels? back in the rubbish pile
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All of a sudden I really want a brakeless fixed gear folding bike. I have a swift that would make this really easy but doing it with a bike friday pakit would scratch the itch better. Plus would be like 11 pounds.
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My buddy did this back in the aughts with a jb welded cog on some like kids bike mag wheels.
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@Bootus am I remembering correctly that you built both a Disc Trucker and a Mod Zero?
damn i had the sickest brakeless fixed gear folder, lemme see if i can find a pic.
edit: found. back when life was simple.
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Yeah. That wasn’t the plan, but that’s what happened.
Which one is better, presuming one is going to festoon either one with lights and racks and fenders
I like them both but it kinda depends. The disc trucker is a 26" which worked really well last winter for switching out between two different sets of wheels with different tires depending on the weather / trail conditions. Studs for snow and ice and something else for the dry days. The mod zero has some 700x40-ish tires on it and it feels faster and I think has a better ride (unsurprisingly). Both have lights, fenders, front and rear racks, front baskets, and bags for commutepacking. They’re basically the same bike other than different wheel and tire sizes.
If winter commuting wasn’t a thing or I was okay with narrower winter tires, I’d likely pick the mod zero if it came down to a choice between which to keep.
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The mod zero was meant to replace two other bikes, which it did but those two frames are still around. And then whoops I still had a single 26" studded tire and here we are.
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