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pioneer wrote:You mean a fair charge for removing the B/B only, not the powder coat aswell? Anywhere from a fiver to fifteen I'd say. A fiver it's a an LBS you know and use frequently, more if perhaps a national chain (Evans, Halfords). Though it is in fact, a piece of cake to do yourself and the tool isn't expensive either. But what did they charge you?

I'm odering a tool tomorrow . We're getting one made by Park .
We were charged 15 pounds,which we thought was a tad expensive being that the cartridge has only been in the frame a few months,and has not been exposed to any weather .
But going by what your saying,perhaps not .

A couple of years ago, £15.00 per hour is what bike shop mechanics were charging, so I guess your bill was about right.

But a B/B tool will pay for itself many times over.

Morning

15 squid for 15 minutes work,not bad if you can get it

BTW,i see 22t single freewheels are quite readily available-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271135538155? ... 1438.l2649

breakwellmz wrote:Morning

15 squid for 15 minutes work,not bad if you can get it

BTW,i see 22t single freewheels are quite readily available-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271135538155? ... 1438.l2649

I must admit we thought that . But then again we shouldn't have been . . this shop doesn't stock many bikes below a grand,if any at all .

Thanks for the info on the freewheel . Much appreciated .

tatanab wrote:

reohn2 wrote:Just a couple of thoughts,wind,cadence .

I hate a head wind as a result of living on an exposed coastline for half of my life. When riding fixed it is a bit like climbing a long drag - just get on with it. Cadence - on the flat my preferred rate is about 100rpm. In the times that I rode fixed a lot I could touch 200rpm on a descent but certainly could not maintain it.

About 1975 I went on a CTC tour in Normandy & Brittany, this was in the days when most people used a large saddlebag not muliple panniers for a week away. I went on fixed. I was almost always the first to the top of the hills and never the last one down. Of course, in 1975 I was 23 years old so much stronger/resiliant than now.

I really really truly positively hate that modern affectation "fixie"..
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I really love the fixie fashion
People are doing the right thing for the wrong reason, +1

Are fixies still the height of fashion?

Shirely the next big thing will be the e-fixie ?

I often see a pattern local to me, where someone initially buys a fixed gear bike with a single brake on it. Then they discover that pedalling all the time is not for them, so they turn the rear wheel and use the freewheel instead, (quite illegally, because they now have only one brake). Then they fail to maintain their one brake, and have an accident.

There are also quite a few riders on fixed who run around with no second brake. Some are competent enough to stop the bike most of the time but even so it is no substitute for having good brakes, not in a busy town with lots of clueless tourists milling about (who, if they look before they cross the road at all, will look the wrong way....). Other riders don't keep their machine in good condition, so the chain unships (or breaks) and then they have a prang.

Daft so and so's.....

cheers

Fixies sold in Germany for €299 have flipflop hubs and two brakes
Most are ridden with the freewheel side in use

Cyril Haearn wrote:Fixies sold in Germany for €299 have flipflop hubs and two brakes
Most are ridden with the freewheel side in use

That's how I would ride one. Downhills were created by God to give us a rest.

pwa wrote:

Cyril Haearn wrote:Fixies sold in Germany for €299 have flipflop hubs and two brakes
Most are ridden with the freewheel side in use

That's how I would ride one. Downhills were created by God to give us a rest.

That's the one good reason I have for believing in God

I dislike cycling fast downhill even with a freewheel. Used to get off and walk down Bwlch Oerddrws
Would that the laws of physics could be changed so one could cycle uphill without having to ride down again!