recumbent fixies?

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Hello fellow cyclists,

Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed
gear recumbent?

Cullen

 

[Peter Clinch]

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello fellow cyclists,
>
> Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed
> gear recumbent?

Well, I imagine that the 'bent unicycle (yes, there really is such a
beast!) would have had to have been...

Pete.
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[gotbent]

Actually, I saw on their site that Schlumpf makes a unicycle hub. Here is a
link to the unicycle hub:
http://schlumpfdrive.com/?schlumpfdrive:home:welcome.

Now that that is out of the way, I don't remember seeing anything about
someone riding a 'bent fixie, either here or on a couple of the other bent
fora I frequent. Seems like it would be easiest to do on a recumbent trike,
but can't imagine why someone would want to.


"Peter Clinch" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> [email protected] wrote:
>> Hello fellow cyclists,
>>
>> Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed
>> gear recumbent?
>
> Well, I imagine that the 'bent unicycle (yes, there really is such a
> beast!) would have had to have been...
>
> Pete.
> --
> Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
> Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
> Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
> net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/



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[DougC]

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello fellow cyclists,
>
> Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed
> gear recumbent?
>
> Cullen
>

On one of the photo sites - flikr or something like that--there is a set
of three photos of a fixed BikeE. The chain is tensioned by a floating
chainring placed halfway between the cranks and hub.

I don't remember what search terms I was using, I ran across it while
searching for something else.
~

 

[Keats]

Peter Clinch" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> Hello fellow cyclists,
>>>
>>> Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed
>>> gear recumbent?
>>
>> Well, I imagine that the 'bent unicycle (yes, there really is such a
>> beast!) would have had to have been...
>>
>> Pete.
>> --

"gotbent" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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<snip>
....................... I don't remember seeing anything about
> someone riding a 'bent fixie, either here or on a couple of the other bent
> fora I frequent. Seems like it would be easiest to do on a recumbent
> trike, but can't imagine why someone would want to.
>

If you just have to have a recumbent fixie make sure you are a flatlander.

Keats

 

[Tom \Johnny Sunset\ Sherman]

(not Tom) Keats wrote:
>
> If you just have to have a recumbent fixie make sure you are a flatlander.

I did a club ride in Champaign County, Illinois on my RANS Rocket where
I only used the middle chainring and three (3) gears in back. From this
experience, a recumbent fixie would be usable in such conditions.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition"

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[Peter Clinch]

gotbent wrote:
> Actually, I saw on their site that Schlumpf makes a unicycle hub. Here is a
> link to the unicycle hub:
> http://schlumpfdrive.com/?schlumpfdrive:home:welcome.

There is (or at least was) a demo machine at Kinetics, my usual
'bentmonger and Schlumpf stockist, and I've ridden it. I couldn't
change gear on the move and it took a while to get used to it in
overdrive (I'm used to a 26" wheel Muni, and the freemount resistance
needed for that, but with an effective 40" wheel I kept on not pushing
on enough to start and dropped straight back off), but once I did it was
great fun, getting a respectable turn of speed for the first time in my
unicycling career.

If I had a spare ~£700 lying baout I'd like one, but I don't... :-(

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

 

[DougC]

DougC wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Hello fellow cyclists,
>>
>> Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed
>> gear recumbent?
>>
>> Cullen
>>
>
> On one of the photo sites - flikr or something like that--there is a set
> of three photos of a fixed BikeE. The chain is tensioned by a floating
> chainring placed halfway between the cranks and hub.
>
> I don't remember what search terms I was using, I ran across it while
> searching for something else.
> ~

Okay, here we are:

> http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewish/tags/bikee/

found on this page (about BikeE's):

> http://www.tachyonlabs.com/mybike.html
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I dunno how many other recumbents would work like this, but this one
seems to.
~

 

[Roger Zoul]

Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman wrote:
:: (not Tom) Keats wrote:
:::
::: If you just have to have a recumbent fixie make sure you are a
::: flatlander.
::
:: I did a club ride in Champaign County, Illinois on my RANS Rocket
:: where I only used the middle chainring and three (3) gears in back.
:: From this experience, a recumbent fixie would be usable in such
:: conditions.

There's certainly some terrain for which a 'bent fixie will work. However,
IMO, on more general terrain a 'bent fixie is just going to result in a more
difficult riding experience. For those that are into that sort of thing, one
can certainly just decide you use one gear setting and be willing to live
with the extra weight.