New Fixie in Town!

NickZX6R said:

Here it is...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_fixed.jpg

More pics here...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni.html

I'm still yet to find a reliable way of getting the rear wheel straight,
probably exacerbated by stainless steel dropouts and the fact that the
frame is about 3-4mm wider than the hub 🙂 I'll get around to fixing
that on the weekend. And the chainring is knackered and the seatpost is
too short 🙂 (but the Chorus aero looks better in the pics than a black
Easton 🙂

For the anoraks, the ingredients are:
1994 Marinoni frame - lugged Columbus SL
3T Bars and Stem
Chorus Aero seatpost (which I can't ride on)
Fizik Arione Saddle
Cheap wheels (Suzue Hubs & Araya rims)
EAI 18T steel cog
Hippy's Miche chain (thanks Hippy!)
105 headset
600 BB & cranks (42T)
RX100 brake caliper
CX brake lever

Have to do some nicer pics for fixedgeargallery.com

Cheers.
-Nick

That's most pretty. I'm a good deal slower than you, I'm sort of moving house at the moment though.

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Quoted message said:

Here it is...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_fixed.jpg

More pics here...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni.html

I'm still yet to find a reliable way of getting the rear wheel straight,
probably exacerbated by stainless steel dropouts and the fact that the
frame is about 3-4mm wider than the hub 🙂 I'll get around to fixing that
on the weekend. And the chainring is knackered and the seatpost is too
short 🙂 (but the Chorus aero looks better in the pics than a black Easton
🙂

For the anoraks, the ingredients are:
1994 Marinoni frame - lugged Columbus SL
3T Bars and Stem
Chorus Aero seatpost (which I can't ride on)
Fizik Arione Saddle
Cheap wheels (Suzue Hubs & Araya rims)
EAI 18T steel cog
Hippy's Miche chain (thanks Hippy!)
105 headset
600 BB & cranks (42T)
RX100 brake caliper
CX brake lever

Have to do some nicer pics for fixedgeargallery.com

Cheers.
-Nick

Nick,

Very nice. It looks great and colour is fantastic.
As for the rear axle spacing problem if the axle is long enough try
inserting a couple of thin spacers inside the axle lock nuts on each side of
the hub being careful not to upset the chainline. Else if the axle is too
short then you may need to look at cold setting the rear triangle of the
bike or sourcing a longer axle.

Unless you can match the colour of the paint, or are considering a total
repaint, I probably would not worry about removing the "used to have gears"
bits.

Have fun riding it (I'm sure you will)
Geoff

NickZX6R said:

Here it is...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_fixed.jpg

More pics here...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni.html

<chunkybase>chunka-chunka-wow-wowwwwww!</chunkybase>

Geoff said:

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Quoted message said:

Here it is...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_fixed.jpg

More pics here...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni.html

I'm still yet to find a reliable way of getting the rear wheel straight,
probably exacerbated by stainless steel dropouts and the fact that the
frame is about 3-4mm wider than the hub 🙂 I'll get around to fixing that
on the weekend. And the chainring is knackered and the seatpost is too
short 🙂 (but the Chorus aero looks better in the pics than a black Easton
🙂

For the anoraks, the ingredients are:
1994 Marinoni frame - lugged Columbus SL
3T Bars and Stem
Chorus Aero seatpost (which I can't ride on)
Fizik Arione Saddle
Cheap wheels (Suzue Hubs & Araya rims)
EAI 18T steel cog
Hippy's Miche chain (thanks Hippy!)
105 headset
600 BB & cranks (42T)
RX100 brake caliper
CX brake lever

Have to do some nicer pics for fixedgeargallery.com

Cheers.
-Nick

Nick,

Very nice. It looks great and colour is fantastic.
As for the rear axle spacing problem if the axle is long enough try
inserting a couple of thin spacers inside the axle lock nuts on each side of
the hub being careful not to upset the chainline. Else if the axle is too
short then you may need to look at cold setting the rear triangle of the
bike or sourcing a longer axle.

Unless you can match the colour of the paint, or are considering a total
repaint, I probably would not worry about removing the "used to have gears"
bits.

Have fun riding it (I'm sure you will)
Geoff

Thanks Geoff. I fixed up the hub last night. I had 2x3mm spacers (it's a
126mm frame and a 120mm track hub. ANd the rear hub came with spacers
already, which were too small. So I just switched them over and now
tensioning and getting the rear wheel in is fine. In fact, right now
it's too tight 🙂

It's not quite rideable because the BB and HS need regreasing
desperately, but I just wanted to get it built so I could see if it was
worth keeping. So, if the weather holds out I'll take it for a short
spin, maybe down to the LBS to get the regreasing done.

Cheers.

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Nick

flyingdutch said:

NickZX6R said:

Here it is...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_fixed.jpg

More pics here...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni.html

<chunkybase>chunka-chunka-wow-wowwwwww!</chunkybase>

Hey FD,

Shame it's not a 70s frame like I first thought. Then some funky wah wah
effects would be appropriate 🙂

wokka wokka wokka

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Nick

"NickZX6R" <[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

More pics here...
http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni.html

Well, you already have my comments, so I'll just say
"SWEET!" and you have an updated 'most recent' spot
in a.b fixie gallery here:
http://thehippy.net/nucleus/index.php?itemid=194

Quoted message said:

Hippy's Miche chain (thanks Hippy!)

You are mistaken.. it's Nick's Miche chain.. ;-)

hippy

users.on.netmarinoni frontF.jpgOpen ↗

MTB brake on road bars? ..... "I don't agree with that in the work-place"...

Apart for that it looks really slick.

Shabby said:

http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_frontF.jpg

MTB brake on road bars? ..... "I don't agree with that in the
work-place"...

Cyclo-cross, not mtb.

It's a neater idea than road levers if you don't have bullhorns and
time-trial levers.

hippy

hippy said:

Shabby said:

http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_frontF.jpg

MTB brake on road bars? ..... "I don't agree with that in the
work-place"...

Cyclo-cross, not mtb.

It's a neater idea than road levers if you don't have bullhorns and
time-trial levers.

hippy

Where did you get the levers?

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quote='hippy'Shabby said:

http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_frontF.jpg

MTB brake on road bars? ..... "I don't agree with that in the
work-place"...

Cyclo-cross, not mtb.

It's a neater idea than road levers if you don't have bullhorns and
time-trial levers.

hippy[/QUOTE]

MTB brake with flat handlebars is neat, but most cross bikes are set up with standard road setups. If you're going to ride on the tops (beacuse you have no hoods and your brakes are on the tops) then there's little point having drops.

cyclingnews.comcrossOpen ↗

Check out the photos here, it's mostly STI.
cyclingnews.comCXworlds05Open ↗

I (still) don't agree with that in the work-place.....

Shabby said:

hippy said:

Shabby said:

http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_frontF.jpg

MTB brake on road bars? ..... "I don't agree with that in the
work-place"...

Cyclo-cross, not mtb.

It's a neater idea than road levers if you don't have bullhorns and
time-trial levers.

hippy

MTB brake with flat handlebars is neat, but most cross bikes are set up
with standard road setups. If you're going to ride on the tops (beacuse
you have no hoods and your brakes are on the tops) then there's little
point having drops.

I don't need to have my hand near the brake lever all the time.

Anyway, CX levers can be installed inline with road/STI levers. They're
mostly used by CXers so that they have brake levers on the tops AND
road/STI levers.

Quoted message said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross/?id=faq#bikes

Check out the photos here, it's mostly STI.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross/2005/CXworlds05/?id=race4

I (still) don't agree with that in the work-place.....

Just accept it - people make their own choices for unfathomable reasons.

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Nick

hippy said:

Shabby said:

http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_frontF.jpg

MTB brake on road bars? ..... "I don't agree with that in the
work-place"...

Cyclo-cross, not mtb.

It's a neater idea than road levers if you don't have bullhorns and
time-trial levers.

hippy

Actually I do have TT bars for it - just don't have a suitable
stem...yet🙂 Gotta nice Dia Compe lever though 😉 Even got the spinachy
bars to try out.

And there's also the aero levers which I don't have another drop bar
for...yet🙂

I like options.

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Nick

Shabby said:

hippy said:

Shabby said:

http://www.users.on.net/~angrydwarf/marinoni_frontF.jpg

MTB brake on road bars? ..... "I don't agree with that in the
work-place"...

Cyclo-cross, not mtb.

It's a neater idea than road levers if you don't have bullhorns and
time-trial levers.

hippy

MTB brake with flat handlebars is neat, but most cross bikes are set up
with standard road setups. If you're going to ride on the tops (beacuse
you have no hoods and your brakes are on the tops) then there's little
point having drops.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross/?id=faq#bikes

Check out the photos here, it's mostly STI.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross/2005/CXworlds05/?id=race4

I (still) don't agree with that in the work-place.....

Oh, and another cool thing about the CX lever is the hinged clamp so I
can take the whole brake setup off with just 2 bolts - because I want to
try it out on a velodrome.

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Nick