The new 2004 trend...

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Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
jumping on the bandwagon. If you have the balls and

the

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ability to ride one, get one.

Now if only I can get my new seat collar from the bike shop, I'll be able

to

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get to riding mine again...

It would really be cool if you actually had a track to ride one on.

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Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
jumping on the bandwagon. If you have the balls and

the

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ability to ride one, get one.

Now if only I can get my new seat collar from the bike shop, I'll be able

to

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get to riding mine again...

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

Get a flip-flop hub so you can ride as either a fixed gear or single speed. Recommend that you do
add brakes for any track bike. State laws in most place require them and last thing you want to do
is run over a little kid that jumps in front of you.

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Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
jumping on the bandwagon. If you have the balls and

the

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ability to ride one, get one.

Now if only I can get my new seat collar from the bike shop, I'll be able

to

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get to riding mine again...

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

there's a track in San Diego that I've ridden a few times. Riding a fixie is kind of fun until that
first time where you stop pedalling. My back end bucked a little but I quickly started pedalling
again to keep from going down.

the fun part about the track here is that for a while there was a root from a tree poking through
the cement in turn one so if you were going high you couldn't help but catch a little air!

Michael

Carla A-G said:

Track/Fixed gear bikes.

Argh...Arghhhh....Arggghhhh. No!!!! No, no, no, no, no.

No.

--
Matt

Fear of a flat planet

Carla A-G said:

Track/Fixed gear bikes.

I see a number of them here, still not statistically signifigant but a few now and then.
Singlespeeds are all the rage though, I'd say a singlespeed passes my house every hour or so on
nice days.

I dinna understand. What are fixed gear bikes? Just when I get a decent bike (KHS Fxt Rage, IRD
Hydraulics, LX, Bomber, Fox etc) y'all start talking single speeds. Now it's fixed gear. A man just
can't keep up.

Ask nice and someday I'll post pics of my homegrown studded with 185 roofing nails rear tire that
makes riding possible this time of year on the north east coast.

Tidman

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Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
jumping on the bandwagon. If you have the balls and

the

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ability to ride one, get one.

Now if only I can get my new seat collar from the bike shop, I'll be able

to

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get to riding mine again...

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

Carla A-G said:

Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
jumping on the bandwagon. If you have the balls and the ability to ride one, get one.

Now if only I can get my new seat collar from the bike shop, I'll be able to get to riding mine
again...

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

They've been pretty popular around here for a number of years. People like to put those old school
swept (pre drop) bars on them. Looks fun in a masochistic kind of way.

Matt (a little ahead of the curve here in the G-Spot)

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It would really be cool if you actually had a track to ride one on.

We do, the track is being re-built at the moment:

kissena.infoindex.htmlOpen ↗

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

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Get a flip-flop hub so you can ride as either a fixed gear or single

speed.

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Recommend that you do add brakes for any track bike. State laws in most place require them and
last thing you want to do is run over a little kid that jumps in front of you.

Been riding mine for quite a while now, but my seat collar broke and it was an odd size and I had
to order one, so I'm waiting to hop back onto it. It already has a flip flop hub but I'm keeping
it strictly fixed gear, its more efficient that way and its a better training tool. I already
have a front brake and a dummy rear brake lever. I ride it on the road all the time, never had
any problems.

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

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there's a track in San Diego that I've ridden a few times. Riding a fixie is kind of fun until
that first time where you stop pedalling. My back

end

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bucked a little but I quickly started pedalling again to keep from going down.

I remember the first time I rode a track bike, I forgot it was fixed and I stopped pedalling, I
almost lost all my front teeth on the handlebar...

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

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Carla A-G said:

Track/Fixed gear bikes.

Argh...Arghhhh....Arggghhhh. No!!!! No, no, no, no, no.

No.

I'm with you... what's with this [censored]?

Next, they're going to switch back to 1-piece cranks all over again.

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

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It would really be cool if you actually had a track to ride one on.

We do, the track is being re-built at the moment:

kissena.infoindex.htmlOpen ↗

We do too, but 36 degree concrete turns, that were two stories high did not appeal to me (I'm a
wuss, when it comes to heights). I did, at least get the
R/C car racing started there about 10 or so years ago.

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"Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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| Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
| jumping on the bandwagon. If you have the balls and
the
| ability to ride one, get one.
|
| Now if only I can get my new seat collar from the bike shop, I'll be able
to
| get to riding mine again...
|
| - CA-G
|
| Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!
|
|

I almost broke my ass on a kierin bike a few years ago.

"Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
jumping on the bandwagon.

Christ, Carla, I hope not. I'd hate to see the Old Skool crowd overrun by dorks. I mean, imagine. A
year from now we'll have people posting [censored] like:

kick-ass triple for that much! What a ripoff!"

We elitists will have to take up unicycling or bicycle B.A.S.E jumping or something.

CC

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Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
jumping on the bandwagon. If you have the balls and

the

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ability to ride one, get one.

Now if only I can get my new seat collar from the bike shop, I'll be able

to

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get to riding mine again...

It would really be cool if you actually had a track to ride one on.

yeah, and unfortunatly they just closed our local velodrome due to Lack of Interest. I don't think
thats the next trend. At least not round these parts.

Dave (sad times down at [censored] Lanes Velodrome!)

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Carla A-G said:

Track/Fixed gear bikes.

I see a number of them here, still not statistically signifigant but a few now and then.
Singlespeeds are all the rage though, I'd say a singlespeed passes my house every hour or so on
nice days.

The hype is in full force. There's no turning back! It's your destiny Luke!

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Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
jumping on the bandwagon. If you have the balls and

the

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ability to ride one, get one.

Now if only I can get my new seat collar from the bike shop, I'll be able

to

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get to riding mine again...

It would really be cool if you actually had a track to ride one on.

yeah, and unfortunatly they just closed our local velodrome due to Lack of Interest. I don't think
thats the next trend. At least not round these parts.

Other uses were found for ours, besides biking. Skating, and R/C car racing. Cool as hell to see a
48" long 1/4 scale car going around the track.

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It would really be cool if you actually had a track to ride one on.

yeah, and unfortunatly they just closed our local velodrome due to Lack of Interest. I don't think
thats the next trend. At least not round these parts.

Dave (sad times down at [censored] Lanes Velodrome!)

That sucks. They're just finishing a brand new, wooden, indoor one here. Hopefully, the public will
have access because I'd love to build up a little steel track bike.
--
Slacker

Carla A-G said:

Track/Fixed gear bikes. That's right. They're showing up everywhere and everyone will now be
jumping on the bandwagon. If you have the balls and the ability to ride one, get one.

Now if only I can get my new seat collar from the bike shop, I'll be able to get to riding
mine again...

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

Trends svck. I hope people who get/convert a fixie will make it part of their lifestyle.

Trends svck, Bill ...one speed to rule them all, one speed to find them, one speed to bring them all
and on the trails pass them In the Land of Avalon where the geared pigs lie...