London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

phil wood carbon drive cog, the future is now, i m drooling half way

omg

And surprisingly light!
But still hideous and stupid.

i'm looking forward to se belt drives on the track

Never going to happen. The only racing vehicles which have more power than they know what to do with are dragsters (bikes and cars), and not coincidentally that's also the only place you see belt drives in use for racing, as supercharger drives on cars and primary drives on bikes. Everything else uses chains because the hysteresis loss in a belt drive is power lost which you can't afford.

No problem, I'd like to get another look at it sometime soon. I just spoke to Justin, about holding on to his last Ti fork for me. I'd like to say you cold try mine but not sure what's going to happen....

If that bike had a rohloff I'd definitely say it was total porn. But minus that point, it's 95% porn.

Anyone know what selle italia this is? -it's not the normal turbo...

new turbo.or maybe not

I really can't remember this being a repost... anyway worth the looks.

New Turbo is exactly the same shape as the old one


the chamfer on the underside of the nose on that Alan suggests Turbomatic, although I don't think it is one

Flip the stem and lose half the spacers, then I'd ride it.

Love this.

Agree. Also lose the Thoork - Fucking painful things!

A turbo shot with a long lens?

Don't agree.
Upward pointing stems are not porn, maybe the right stem on a BT or so.
On the majority of bikes it doesn't look right.
This amount of spacers is just acceptable.

But if we're just talking about porn (no this bike is certainly no porn IMO), there should be less spacers. Def. no rising stem.
Perhaps a high concave upper part of the headset would be the right solution. Also to make a smoother transition from headtube to spacers stack.
Oh, and the stem is too short to make it porn.

Fixed

lush!

Shame about the ourys.

Even though i ride them myself, i still think risers look all wrong on a classic track bike

Agreed. Needs drops.

what the shit is wrong with them... ourys rock man, they're big and chunky and grippable unlike those appalling spindly grips that have doing the rounds ever since oury went out of favour... i'm so sad you hate ourys everyone. and that black bike up the top of this page is disgusting, looks like a constipated lump of coal. nagasawa rules!

until you remember that drops are impossible to ride without brakes, i don't care what anyone says it's true. and furthermore you're wrong it doesn't it looks geat with ourys, they are the best grips pound for pound. anyone disagrees is a willy wonker.

calm down, dear!

It's all good for riding around the town, but that's not what the porn is about (you know, like the real porn - not everyone has 12" dick)

No it's not.

also it's personal preference, other says drop because they like to have drop, you prefer it to have oury, which is fine.

You may not care what anyone says but it is still not true I'm afraid.

I ride with drops and find it just as easy as with risers. As long as your bike fits you and you can actually ride in the drops (which I do 80%+ of the time) then stopping is easy.
If you use drops incorrectly and just hold the flat part next to the stem then I would agree they would be useless, but you don't do that. Do you? :-)

I agree with you about Oury's and I find them comfortable too but they look out of place on a classic thin tubed steel track frame (as do risers)

Gripshift = Fail Bike.

That's like failing a bike for saddle choice. Some people love twisters.
On the other hand, cable actuated disc brakes do make it fail to be porn

and what makes you say that?.. just wondering
IMO that bike don't really belong here at all, apart from fork and bar/stem combo thingie

Cable discs are a compromise for people who either can't afford real brakes or can't get hydraulic levers, i.e. for drop bars. They need too much regular adjustment and maintenance. Should have had a nice high-end hydraulic brake.

out of own experience - not really.
but generally agreeing on the rest of what you said - cable discs go on MTBs mostly, MTBs not = porn

i am currently rockin 4cm of spacers. is this acceptable? haha. i am playing about with bar height after getting a new frame. the spacers are nice hope ones.

Sublime.

Gorg!!

nice nice wiv a bowl of rice

Make sure you go to the nursery TJ, save yourself some trouble ; )

Hi folks,
im new here and im also not riding fixed since a long time.. just a few month.
So here are my girls. My fixie is an old Raleigh Royal from a friends father, and my not yet fixed gear mtb was my first 'nice' bike.

bye x_O

This is the wrong thread.

skremon, delete your post and run!

The thread is right, its the bikes that are wrong.

Its really a total different saddle. The shape maybe "almost" exactly the same (its not though),but they feel different, have different writing, different leather, foam. pretty much everything. The new ones are reallllllly horrid. Really horrid. Which is weird, cos the Regal, Rolls and the other one whose name has temporarily slipped my mind are all nice (not as nice as the old ones, but still nice.) The new turbos are hideous, and horrid, and shit.

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True. Fuck you Balki!

Due?

U should really read the rules.

Agree, they look waaay shittier than the OG.
Still getting one tho. wanna try it 1st.

Call the RSPCA!

But what was the original argument here? I can't see how what your hands are gripping onto affects skidding / pedal breaking?
The distance between your hands? Position of shoulders or upperbody? Good grip?

The main thing which effects pedal breaking is not braking enough before you lean over into a corner

want!!!

When I says drop, I don't necessary mean super narrow track drop with only 1mm worth of straightness on the top.

different handlebar doesn't really make much difference when resisting the cranks, if the rider find it's comfortable to ride on super narrow drop, who am I to says difference?