Road Cycling Essentials
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What's with all the hate? Especially if you haven't tried it. 
Labelling single-geared riders as hipster wannabe track cyclists is like calling roadies fat MAMILs.
The fact is one gear is more practical for some people.
Labelling single-geared riders as hipster wannabe track cyclists is like calling roadies fat MAMILs.
The fact is one gear is more practical for some people.
Plenty of hipsters rocking the "fixie" look with a freewheel now as well.
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Fixed is too much effort if you're going to ride sensibly and stop for the lights not bombing through traffic. I think I go through ~106 traffic lights on my commute, no way would I want to stop that often riding fixed, my bike set up SS is much better.
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What's with all the hate for fixed gear? Some of us just prefer to ride fixed.
Sand it back but try not to go as far as the carbon fibres. You just want to key the top coat and then spray over it to tidy it back up. Paint thinners will not attack the CF in any way, but DON'T get acetone on it.
So trying to sort my saddle position out according to this...
My cleat position is correct as is my seat height. It is just the angle of the seat I need to get right now, as I've been having pain (muscle ache I think) at the top of my gluteus maximus and around my coccyx.
Previously my seat was angled down, judging by eye level (but not by the angle indicator on the seat post). I've changed it now so it is (near enough) horizontal to the eye, like so...
Would everyone say that is level enough? Better to point up than down, right?
My cleat position is correct as is my seat height. It is just the angle of the seat I need to get right now, as I've been having pain (muscle ache I think) at the top of my gluteus maximus and around my coccyx.
Previously my seat was angled down, judging by eye level (but not by the angle indicator on the seat post). I've changed it now so it is (near enough) horizontal to the eye, like so...
Would everyone say that is level enough? Better to point up than down, right?
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Great, thanks. They're not in terrible nick so I just want to remove the scratches and remnants of the manufacturer logo on the lever and then spray over to freshen them up. Thanks for the advice on the acetone.
Not sure if I'll be able to revive the scuffed plastic around where it says SRAM above the levers (http://www.winstanleysbikes.co.uk/images/prod_25351.jpg) - any ideas?
And I love fixie riders really, a bike is a bike.
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Wear a mask when sanding it down - carbon dust isnt nice.
I quite like this quote by Henri Desgrange:
“I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft… As for me, give me a fixed gear!”
“I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft… As for me, give me a fixed gear!”
What hate lol? I see some people saying they simply dont like it thats about it 
i cant see anyome here HATING on everything fixie/ss? I mean yes the general stereotipe of fixie=hipster is not surprise.. same with roadies = lycra covered 40yo/old
i cant see anyome here HATING on everything fixie/ss? I mean yes the general stereotipe of fixie=hipster is not surprise.. same with roadies = lycra covered 40yo/old
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Great, thanks. They're not in terrible nick so I just want to remove the scratches and remnants of the manufacturer logo on the lever and then spray over to freshen them up. Thanks for the advice on the acetone.
Not sure if I'll be able to revive the scuffed plastic around where it says SRAM above the levers (http://www.winstanleysbikes.co.uk/images/prod_25351.jpg) - any ideas?
And I love fixie riders really, a bike is a bike.
You can't do anything about the scuffed plastic, that's the main lever body.
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I thought as much, it's only a tiny bit but thought I'd ask before I start dismantling.
Thanks for advice - I thought that might be the case as looks kinda weird how I had it in the above pic!
Have readjusted it and it is now like this
It is now on 5 (degrees?) on the seatpost indicator but looks horizontal when I lined it up against the dado rail (which is level!)
+1
Some saddles have a high back like the Charge Spoon....i levelled this up at first and had sore nuts after getting to work! (13miles).
I usually work off the middle to the end being flat (using a spirit level) as Diablo has marked, seems fine on the Fizik Arione i have now (must sell the Spoon).
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