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god hates fixies

ironlung — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:12:57 +0000

hahahahahaha, oh man, THAT’S awesome.

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I’m OK, You’re OK, Villain’s Very OK

wrongrobot — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:46:50 +0000

So today I finally had the opportunity to do what I’ve been wanting to do for a few weeks now: get Villain back into rotation. Ghostal is now for sale, so I’m not riding it, lest it explodes in irony, and my riding time has been split between Crook and Ye Blacke Death. But I built up the new Villain 3.0 in anticipation of the Tour de Lung road ride Team lope is hosting, now hopefully set for October. But I need some saddle time to iron out any kinks in what was my first road bike build.

So far so good! MAYBE seat comes down a hair. Shifting and braking are solid. Feels great.

Tell you what I forget about road bikes after a lot of continuous fixie riding: they’re FAST. I was flying today, both directions of m commute. Just flying.

Anyway, that is all. Just good times, with gears=gasp!=I=said=gears!

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Cozzi Kills it, as the Kids Say

wrongrobot — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:12:03 +0000

Anthony Cozzi makes me want to BE a fixie-riding, flare-having skeleton.

http://prollyisnotprobably.com/2010/08/ … _print.php

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10 Days of cycling bliss: SF to SB

Cyclomania — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:07:28 +0000

K and I just finished purchasing all our hotels for our first bike trip together, actually together or alone for that matter. This is nothing like the grueling fixie ride to LA that you guys did since we will be doing this in the pure comfort of gears, hotels, swimming pools, day breaks, and restaurants but it should be a little challenging with 380 miles of riding, without any of our miscellaneous adventures along the way, and 26k feet of climbing. How lucky am I that I got a girl who is willing to do that!

Anyway, the plan is to leave from SF on Saturday with a single night sleepover in Santa Cruz, Carmel, and San Simeon. We will be staying in SLO 2 nights since I went to Poly and haven’t been there since I graduated and K has never been there (a little show and tell time) for 2 nights and then 1 night in a fancy place on the beach in Pismo. We then take off to stay 3 days in Santa Barbara, which incidentally has to be the most expensive city to stay in (at least for any of the places we would want to stay at)! It beat NY in my book!

For those of you actually keeping count you will see that we used up all our days in cycling fun and city visiting so we cheated and got a rental car for our trip back on Monday.

So, I realized that I didn’t have a great backpack for cycling and also that we are going to need a whole lot more than just a change of clothes. We will need some essentials like tools, pump, lube and such. Oops, my bag just got a bit heavier, DAMN!, good thing I bought a new one (I’ll tell you all about it when it comes in and I try it out).

If you guys have suggestions for things I should bring, restaurants to visit, or just some scenic routes/rides along our route please chime in. I am all eyes!

This is a wonderful cause so donations are welcome!

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TLTC Ride Report: Team Hype Solo Wiggle

wrongrobot — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:03:19 +0000

Team Hype was up in SF this weekend, so we volunteered to give them a guided tour of one of our mellow Marin hops. Unfortunately, TH’s Remi had to go it alone, as his brother-in-arms, Shoelace, was home growing chest hair. But not to worry, we gave him a workout!

We took Remi over the bridge (no tourist bike collidery or SUV crushery or wet-grate slidery, so we were statistically in the green) and down through Sausalito to the Paradise Loop with the Strwberry Extension. This is a great staple ride here in Marin, because it can be done in many different ways: as I do it most often, these days, as a lunch ride; you can do it bombing on road bikes, mashing on fixies, easy-cheesie with inexperienced rider friends, whatever the flavor of that day might be. Remi was on his road bike a DA-4-Life Fuji, and Lung and I were on our Leader and Cinelli bikes, per the usual. It was a good ride, pretty brisk pace through the hops. We warned Remi not to be fooled by the mannequin in a squad car, but sure enough, we rolled up and he promptly through himself on the ground, raised his hands over his head (for protection, not surrender) and had his cameraphone running. I eased his burden. "These aren’t PV cops, brother!" I says.

I brought the powdered donuts. Of course, by 9am the powdered donuts were already sold out, so we had glazed donut holes. Which are, admittedly, for babies.

Great ride, good friends, and we even met some nice girls on a lay-of-the-land tour (no, Lung, NO) and helped them out of a flat tyre bind. Good mojo all around.

Read Hype’s report here…

Update: Forgot to mention, got a call-out on my green Cinelli Mash build from a rider passing in the opposite direction. Oh yes, Mash’s Rainier. That was nice!

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Re: Fixie For Sale: Ghostal $695

ironlung — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:06:47 +0000

and to anyone reading, i’ve ridden this bike and it is TIGHT.

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Fixie For Sale: Ghostal $695

wrongrobot — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:02:17 +0000

Ghostal for sale. This was my first bike build on a brand new track frame rather than a conversion. It’s up for $695 obo

This is a complete build, assembled from scratch. The build is tight and true, and the bike rides very smooth. You have the option of Nitto bullhorn bars or Soma Walker drops, which I will mount for you while you wait.

Current Build:
- Origin 8 Del Pasado Frame/Fork with custom vinyl
- white on white pre-built Fixed wheelset
- white track tyres
- Cardiff leather saddle, white (brand new, already Proofide treated)
- Velo Orange stem and headset
- Nitto Bullhorns with Keirin grips; or Soma Walker drops with same grips
- Paul Comp cross lever (hard to find, brand new, aluminum)
- Shimano Ultegra brake
- Sugino cranks
- Shimano A530 pedals

The saddle that comes with the bike is the white Cardiff saddle, not the Brooks. The brake lever pictured has been replaced with a streamlined Paul Comp lever as noted. Bike is very clean; Will be sold with brake but you may sell the brake back to me for $20 if you don’t want to use one. That’s your call!

Make sure to contact me early if you want this bike. I will be in and out all weekend, so use phone: four one 5 4 six 5 272 four or email ( wrongrobot at thirdraildesignlab dot com) ASAP to set something up…

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Trek District Carbon

wrongrobot — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:26:34 +0000

I often joke that I don’t count grams, I count pizzas… but everyone loves a light bike (until they shatter). This is the Trek District Carbon, a bike recently shown at Trek’s big convention. It’s a $3,000 fixie with a belt drive. 12 pounds. That’s TWELVE.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/08/ … rld2011_18

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I Have a Brilliant Idea!

wrongrobot — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:45:34 +0000

What if there was a way to add threading to a steerer to keep it more rigidly in place than those flim-flam star nuts that fall out when you slam your fixie freestyler against a construction barricade?

We could thread the inside of an oversized steerer tubs and then bring in a massive, heavy threaded bolt up top. It’ll be epic!

"But wait, why not just use a compression bo-"

No man, those are flim-flammy too. What if you do a super fly trick and get the bike run over by a MUNI bus? That compression bolt will compress it’s way right out of existence!

"But, OK, what about threading the outside of the steerer tube and then just using nu—"

Oh come on, don’t be preposterous. This is fixie freestyle. It must be EPIC! And massive! And heavy! And unnecessary!

http://www.lockedcog.com/bikes/14-bike-co-threads/

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CoD4: Modern Conflict: Another Fixie Seen

wrongrobot — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:11:45 +0000

I think that’s the third I’ve run or fallen past in this game. Granted it looks like it’s an old beater coaster, but I choose to see what I choose to see. And no, I couldn’t RAHHHHDE it.

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