Can someone explain SS to me

[fingers]

Plus if you like mechs its no good

 

[P20]

It can teach you how to ride your normal geared bike a little better. You'll learn how to apply power more evenly and with greater care on technical sections in order to minimise wheel spin. Try it, its cheap to give it a go. Its not for everyone though. Mine was built mainly for the winter and the minimal maintainence, plus the shorter night rides means you get a better workout

 

[DM]

Perhaps its the early BMX generation that just 'get it' :?:

Possibly.

.... even the grifter had been converted too ss with a jubilee clip holding the gear cable in one place

Mine had a safety pin through the toggle chain, to stop it defaulting into top, because the Sturmey cable broke, or something.

 

[Charlieboy28]

You know i didnt get it at all,

but after the old BMX generation theory was put forward, I now get it and might just get meself one, also justifies owning another bike.

Those happy days of "playing out" on your bike all day long, bunny hopping your mate's tummy and not getting the timing quite right, ramps made from bricks and planks that snapped etc etc. lol cant wait!

Oh and sorry to be stupid and i could just google, whats a fixie? is that with just one chain ring up front but geared rear then

charlieboy28

 

[tee-one]

im slowly building one... but its not mtb.. its road.... should be fun when done, but gotta calculate spoke lenths and grind all the braze ons off the frame yet...

 

[DM]

Oh and sorry to be stupid and i could just google, whats a fixie? is that with just one chain ring up front but geared rear then

charlieboy28

Fixed = 1 gear; No freewheel.
When the bike rolls forward (or backward), the chain and cranks rotate.
It's the gearing system used on velodrome bikes. Those ones have no brakes and you slow down by resisting the "flywheel" momentum of the rear wheel using your legs.

But you can fit a "fixed" drivetrain to other types of bike. And fit hand-operated brakes, if you want.

Fixed has its merits.
But the whole concept has been jumped on by trend-swallowing idiots without the skill to ride one safely on the streets. And often with horrible taste re. bastardizing very nice old frames.

 

[Charlieboy28]

Certainly dont get that concept then, so you can't coast at all?
what about going down really big hills? The thought of it seems just wrong, like a two wheeled unicycle, can understand its use in a velodrome but is it practical on the street and off road.

Im perplexed

 

[jimihendrix]

Oh and sorry to be stupid and i could just google, whats a fixie? is that with just one chain ring up front but geared rear then

charlieboy28

A bike with one ring up front and gears on the rear is a 1x whatever the cassette is, so an 8 speed cassette would be a 1x8, ran a couple of bikes like this when i found i hardly ever used the granny or outer, think the last i had was a 34x11-30

I've never really got on with gears, never been able to get them set up perfect, even when i get the rear shifting nice the frickin front mech is rubbing somewhere, dont get on with headsets either, was always buggering them up BITD so i'm a bit paranoid with them now, so at least with an SS bike there's just one thing i dont get on with

 

[jimihendrix]

Certainly dont get that concept then, so you can't coast at all?
what about going down really big hills? The thought of it seems just wrong, like a two wheeled unicycle, can understand its use in a velodrome but is it practical on the street and off road.

Im perplexed

A fixie is exactly that, the sprocket is fixed to the hub, cant freewheel at all, going down mega steep hills is best avoided i think, unless the rider is really fit or mad or both

You'd definetely be bonkers to ride one offroad

 

[DM]

You'd definetely be bonkers to ride one offroad

Where have you been?
http://www.63xc.com/