Great classic / vintage gallery

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

From L'Erioca

http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/10/ ... sony-dsc-7

 

[Goldie]

That was great - there are some jewel like bits of cycling machinery on display there.

I am still trying to work out how to explain that I'd like to give it a crack to our lass: "You know I like riding my bike love... well there's this race... in Italy..."

 

[latman]

she will hear ...... in Italy , and everyone will be happy!

 

[Johnsqual]

Am I right in thinking that the earliest riders used fixed gears for this kind of riding? :shock:

 

[Johnsqual]

And wait, just looking at the campagnolo corsa gearing photos: if I understand that correctly, it's a fixed gear and the gears work by
loosening the hub in the frame :shock: then shifting, then tightening
the hub back up while pedalling. Amazing.

 

[fiks]

And wait, just looking at the campagnolo corsa gearing photos: if I understand that correctly, it's a fixed gear and the gears work by
loosening the hub in the frame :shock: then shifting, then tightening
the hub back up while pedalling. Amazing.

It had a freewheel, you have to actually pedal backwards to change gear. If it had fixed sprockets, wouldn't the wheel just roll forwards and out of the dropouts as soon as you loosened the tension holding the wheel in the frame.

FWIW "fixed gear" means one gear ratio, no freewheel = "fixed wheel".

http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/campagnolo.html

http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.co...mbio-corsa-campagnolos-early-masterpiece.html

Am I right in thinking that the earliest riders used fixed gears for this kind of riding? Shocked

I gather that riders used the freewheel as soon as it was invented in the late 19th century. Fixed in itself is not amazing or something to be in awe of (IMO), a race is only as hard as the riders make it.