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recumbent fixies?
Hello fellow cyclists,
Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed gear recumbent? Cullen |
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recumbent fixies?
Actually, I saw on their site that Schlumpf makes a unicycle hub. Here is a
link to the unicycle hub: http://schlumpfdrive.com/?schlumpfdrive:home:welcome. Now that that is out of the way, I don't remember seeing anything about someone riding a 'bent fixie, either here or on a couple of the other bent fora I frequent. Seems like it would be easiest to do on a recumbent trike, but can't imagine why someone would want to. "Peter Clinch" wrote in message ... wrote: Hello fellow cyclists, Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed gear recumbent? Well, I imagine that the 'bent unicycle (yes, there really is such a beast!) would have had to have been... Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Peter Clinch" wrote in message ... wrote: Hello fellow cyclists, Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed gear recumbent? Well, I imagine that the 'bent unicycle (yes, there really is such a beast!) would have had to have been... Pete. -- "gotbent" wrote in message .. . snip ....................... I don't remember seeing anything about someone riding a 'bent fixie, either here or on a couple of the other bent fora I frequent. Seems like it would be easiest to do on a recumbent trike, but can't imagine why someone would want to. If you just have to have a recumbent fixie make sure you are a flatlander. Keats |
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(not Tom) Keats wrote:
If you just have to have a recumbent fixie make sure you are a flatlander. I did a club ride in Champaign County, Illinois on my RANS Rocket where I only used the middle chainring and three (3) gears in back. From this experience, a recumbent fixie would be usable in such conditions. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia "I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition" -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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recumbent fixies?
gotbent wrote:
Actually, I saw on their site that Schlumpf makes a unicycle hub. Here is a link to the unicycle hub: http://schlumpfdrive.com/?schlumpfdrive:home:welcome. There is (or at least was) a demo machine at Kinetics, my usual 'bentmonger and Schlumpf stockist, and I've ridden it. I couldn't change gear on the move and it took a while to get used to it in overdrive (I'm used to a 26" wheel Muni, and the freemount resistance needed for that, but with an effective 40" wheel I kept on not pushing on enough to start and dropped straight back off), but once I did it was great fun, getting a respectable turn of speed for the first time in my unicycling career. If I had a spare ~£700 lying baout I'd like one, but I don't... :-( Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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Okay, I gots it....
DougC wrote:
wrote: Hello fellow cyclists, Has anybody here know, or have heard, of somebody who rides a fixed gear recumbent? Cullen On one of the photo sites - flikr or something like that--there is a set of three photos of a fixed BikeE. The chain is tensioned by a floating chainring placed halfway between the cranks and hub. I don't remember what search terms I was using, I ran across it while searching for something else. ~ Okay, here we a http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewish/tags/bikee/ found on this page (about BikeE's): http://www.tachyonlabs.com/mybike.html --------- I dunno how many other recumbents would work like this, but this one seems to. ~ |
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Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman wrote:
:: (not Tom) Keats wrote: ::: ::: If you just have to have a recumbent fixie make sure you are a ::: flatlander. :: :: I did a club ride in Champaign County, Illinois on my RANS Rocket :: where I only used the middle chainring and three (3) gears in back. :: From this experience, a recumbent fixie would be usable in such :: conditions. There's certainly some terrain for which a 'bent fixie will work. However, IMO, on more general terrain a 'bent fixie is just going to result in a more difficult riding experience. For those that are into that sort of thing, one can certainly just decide you use one gear setting and be willing to live with the extra weight. |
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