Outside Decathlon today I saw a fixie chained to one of the racks.
Narrow handlbars and one front brake. But what made it stand out for
me was that it had very steep frame angles, and the rear wheel was so
close that the downtube was split into two.
I've never seen that before - I guess you lot will now tell me this is
common on track bikes or something.
The bike also looked to be built for someone quite lanky.
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Unusual frame?
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"John Hearns" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Outside Decathlon today I saw a fixie chained to one of the racks.
Narrow handlbars and one front brake. But what made it stand out for
me was that it had very steep frame angles, and the rear wheel was so
close that the downtube was split into two.
I've never seen that before - I guess you lot will now tell me this is
common on track bikes or something.
The bike also looked to be built for someone quite lanky.Flying gate?
cheers,
clive -
in message <[email hidden]>, John Hearns
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Outside Decathlon today I saw a fixie chained to one of the racks.
Narrow handlbars and one front brake. But what made it stand out for
me was that it had very steep frame angles, and the rear wheel was so
close that the downtube was split into two.
I've never seen that before - I guess you lot will now tell me this is
common on track bikes or something.
The bike also looked to be built for someone quite lanky.It's not common but is quite likely to have originally been a time trial
frame.--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/Error 1109: There is no message for this error
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"Simon Brooke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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in message <[email hidden]>, John Hearns
(') said:
Outside Decathlon today I saw a fixie chained to one of the racks.
Narrow handlbars and one front brake. But what made it stand out for
me was that it had very steep frame angles, and the rear wheel was so
close that the downtube was split into two.
I've never seen that before - I guess you lot will now tell me this is
common on track bikes or something.
The bike also looked to be built for someone quite lanky.Rigi, or Saxon.
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There was a guy in whitby who used to build bikes like that Rod Greaves I
think.
Cheers
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"Simon Brooke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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in message <[email hidden]>, John Hearns
(') said:
Outside Decathlon today I saw a fixie chained to one of the racks.
Narrow handlbars and one front brake. But what made it stand out for
me was that it had very steep frame angles, and the rear wheel was so
close that the downtube was split into two.
I've never seen that before - I guess you lot will now tell me this is
common on track bikes or something.
The bike also looked to be built for someone quite lanky.Rigi, or Saxon.
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