Fast guy pic

"Phil, Squid-in-Training" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/RobertStuck.htm

Something for those who believe the 53-16 on my fixie is an extreme
gear!

Wow.

With those tires, he might not even be able to pedal that thing away
from the line. Heaven help him if he needs to stop.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

Phil said:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/RobertStuck.htm

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OMG! His front valve stem isn't between parallel spokes! How did they
inflate the tire?!?!

Phil said:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/RobertStuck.htm

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Phil

Now that's a 'chain wheel' not 'ring'

John

Squid-in-Training said:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/RobertStuck.htm

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More proof no one needs an 11 tooth cog.

JT

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Phil said:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/RobertStuck.htm

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They knew little about aerodynamics in those days. The chainring looks
great, but it would have been better as a plain disc at the sort of
speeds he no doubt intends to ride. Face it, he's not going to be going
uphill in that gear, so weight is fairly irrelevant.

Zog The Undeniable said:

Phil said:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/RobertStuck.htm

Shamelessly stolen from a.m-b.

They knew little about aerodynamics in those days. ...

It would take massive amounts of Dippidy Do to keep his coif in place at
the expected blinding speeds, too.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Mark Hickey said:

"Phil, Squid-in-Training" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/RobertStuck.htm

Something for those who believe the 53-16 on my fixie is an extreme
gear!

Wow.

With those tires, he might not even be able to pedal that thing away
from the line. Heaven help him if he needs to stop.

What is wrong with the tires?

--
Michael Press

Michael Press said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Mark Hickey said:

"Phil, Squid-in-Training" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/RobertStuck.htm

Something for those who believe the 53-16 on my fixie is an extreme
gear!

Wow.

With those tires, he might not even be able to pedal that thing away
from the line. Heaven help him if he needs to stop.

What is wrong with the tires?

Look at the contact patch length on that rear tire - the thing can't
have more than 30-40psi in it.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:53:16 -0700, Mark Hickey <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Michael Press said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Mark Hickey said:

"Phil, Squid-in-Training" <[email hidden]>
wrote:

>http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/may/RobertStuck.htm

Something for those who believe the 53-16 on my fixie is an extreme
gear!

Wow.

With those tires, he might not even be able to pedal that thing away
from the line. Heaven help him if he needs to stop.

What is wrong with the tires?

Look at the contact patch length on that rear tire - the thing can't
have more than 30-40psi in it.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

Dear Mark,

A good point, but possibly mistaken.

Such pictures were often posed in studios on thick carpet--you can see
that it's a studio background, but it's hard to tell if the tire is
flat on a hard surface or sinking slightly in.

I can see thin spokes, but not any lines indicating hard wooden
flooring.

There's a faint dark line on the sidewall above what looks like a long
contact patch, but it's so dark and shadowy that I can't tell if the
tire is bulging sideways at low pressure.

Normally, the tires on such a bike would be highly inflated, at least
in use.

But you could be right--many track riders deflate their high-pressure
tires when not actually riding them.

Given the huge gear, it's either an impressive track-stand or else
retouched to hide a support. That's roughly a 100-tooth front
sprocket, assuming that it extends past 175mm cranks to about a 200mm
radius, good for about 65 mph at 90 rpm. Even with the tire inflated,
you might be able to stand on a pedal and fall over before you moved.
Presumably the bike was built for speed records and stunts behind
trains or cars, but even those lacked such huge gearing:

http://www.bicyclelongisland.org/murphy/murphy.htm

The picture in the link shows Mile-A-Minute Murphy's 60 mph bike with
far from impressive gearing--and what looks a little like a good angle
on a flattened rear tire like the one that you're seeing.

With luck, someone will explain more details about how such pictures
were posed.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

catzz66 said:

It would take massive amounts of Dippidy Do to keep his coif in place at
the expected blinding speeds, too.

He looks more like a Dapper Dan man to me.