DONE IT! Scored meself a Fixie!!!

Duncan Farrow Wrote:

Good looking bike. And doesn't a garage door make a fantastic
backdrop for photos of fixies? See
http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~dfarrow
and click on the obvious for my garage door (with bike in the way).

Have you submitted it to www.fixedtgeargallery.com yet? Mine is #1020.

Duncan.

PS To e-mail, remove finger.

Im waiting to get it roadworthy before submitting it.
Getting the fork drilled for the brake on Saturday.
did yours come with that brake lever or did you get it yourself?

chose the grarage door cos i thawt the horiz lines gave a decen
reference for angles,etc (and it was there! :-) )

cant wait to ge thtis out on the road. might take it for a spin roun
the flatter parts of my neighbourhood on the weekend..

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flyingdutch

flyingdutch wrote:

Duncan Farrow Wrote:

Good looking bike. And doesn't a garage door make a fantastic
backdrop for photos of fixies? See
http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~dfarrow
and click on the obvious for my garage door (with bike in the way).

Have you submitted it to www.fixedtgeargallery.com yet? Mine is #1020.

Duncan.

PS To e-mail, remove finger.


Im waiting to get it roadworthy before submitting it.
Getting the fork drilled for the brake on Saturday.
did yours come with that brake lever or did you get it yourself?

chose the grarage door cos i thawt the horiz lines gave a decent
reference for angles,etc (and it was there! :-) )

cant wait to ge thtis out on the road. might take it for a spin round
the flatter parts of my neighbourhood on the weekend...



Mine came with a front brake but not that lever and not that caliper.
The original lever was very old fashioned with the cable coming out the
top (very ugly). Also, the caliper was some not very good quality
centre-pull. I thought that if the bike is to have one brake, it should
be a good one! The lever is one of a pair of Dia-Compe bar end levers.
The caliper is of an Orbea, I got it brand new from a shop for $20.
Apparently, Orbeas get delivered with two brake sets or something so
there's lots of spares.

I've only done about 100km on mine so far and it's great. On Sunday I
caught up with someone riding a white carbon Bianchi which I think go
for around $11,000 - my bike was $500. Almost as satisfying as passing
gridlocked cars.

Cheers,
Duncan.

PS To e-mail, remove finger.