I stopped by the Old Spokes Home and checked in with old friends Ralph, Rob and Glenn. We passed a warm half hour with nostalgia, music and car talk—not a word about bikes. That’s when you know you’ve moved on to fogietude. Most of the bike stuff goes without saying.
I picked up a Surly 19T cog. I’m down-gearing from a 46/18 to 46/19 for the winter and possibly indefinitely. After being chastised as “Johnny Flatspot” I finally accepted the logic of tire wear and even gear ratios. Well, I almost never skid, so it seems a lot less relevant to me than to some brave and brakeless. In any case, it should even out the wear and tear on the rear tire and wheel.
Fall is clinging to life here in VT and mother winter is blowing cold. I hope to get in a few good rides here before I switch to winter [and full time walks to work.] I flopped my old rear blue loctite lockring wheel this summer in bike polo and various surgeries and long therapy sessions on the truing stand have failed to revive it—so I’m putting that 19T mentioned above on a burly fixed wheel that Ralph built for me a few years ago. Somehow it had fallen out of use and I found it while doing my laundry this AM! Cha Ching.
OK, by the way, please link back to this blog, I’m trying to crawl back up the “fixed gear blog” rankings and need your help.
PS I’m also looking for cool and unusual fix to feature in the blog in a “gallery” section. Ping me and let me know what you got. Maybe just send Picasa or Flickr links.
Over and Out
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Damn while your freezing your ass off in Vermont, we’ll be riding in 60 to70 degree weather here in Miami Brrrrrr. HaHa life’s just not fair , but then we got to avoid crazy foreign drivers all day!
Good Blog!
fixed gears rule!