fixed gear bike -- straight chainline

[mekore]

noisy

[BackyardAmusement]

To check the chainline, here's what I do. watch?v=sFMa1EP7d2M

[blammblamm]

I ride 54/15 on my singlespeed (with freewheel). Fuck y`all. ;D

[inivonwini]

holy pee I'm dieing

[fordieform]

ohlawdy thats a sexy ass action you got there

my chainlines a bitch and because of it my wheel stops spinning in five secs; ugh straightening that shit out is gnna take forever, but end results are worffit i think

-hero

[MorkaGraven]

I used to ride 40x13 and found it tough.

[doublebubblemax72]

my dura ace hub dosent spin like it use to should i service it.

[skippuhh]

is this sound normal? my fixie makes the same clicking sound as yours when its spinning.

[wayfarin]

it means the chainline isn't straight or the chain isn't tensioned enough.

[specificxboat]

get i bigger cog because if you get a smaller chainring, depending on how many teeth their are, you'll be pedaling fast when going like 13 mph. the best thing to do is if you have a flipflop hub, get a cog one or two teeth bigger than the other.

[floovio]

It's easier to spin a big gear on rollers, alix4d.

[alix4d]

51x14 thats crazy, but awesome i thought my 47x16 was hard.

[jamesboland]

i ride a 46x15 and i really got used to it. everyone elses bike feel like theyre in a stupidly high gear

[porcelainseven]

wow thats a straight chain!

[jaythefatty]

ha ha, owned.

[cokmastuur]

oh snap!

[cyclingdc]

ha ha. Who rides Time Impacts on a fixie?

[stewie190]

ur rim is bent a lil

[hereinastoria]

Fixies are nice. I eat them as a snack during my commute to work through the East Village - on my twenty-year-old Fuji Palisade, no less.

Friggin' hipster clown bikes.

[fitzpantsenson]

lets see you do a trackstand on your friggin' twenty year old fuji, you bike elitist douche bag.

[hereinastoria]

Fitz:

-Only nine months to come up with this. Are you always so quick on the uptake?

-Then again, you write like a ten-year-old, so you've got time to improve.

-Oh! Oh! My bike doesn't trackstand very well! The shame of it all!

-Maybe trackstanding doesn't matter much outside of a track-unless you're posing.

-Maybe I have more useful things to do than trackstand-like go somewhere.

-"Elitist" and "twenty year old fuji"? Cognate dissonantly much?

Time for the next fad, dude.

[fitzpantsenson]

yeah, sorry I don't scour youtube daily searching for your posts, so it did take me 9 months to reply to your condescending comment.

But what's really funny is, I saw that you had posted that so long ago, so I just wanted to see if your self-righteous ass was still out there ripping on 'hipster clowns' daily, and yep!

glad to see you take yourself so seriously, and cognate isn't a verb, jackass.

[hereinastoria]

1. Unexpected e-mail notices happen, even after nine months, and like they just did again.

2. Irregular gerunds happen, too.

Nice to see your writing is improving a bit. Maybe you'll consider that as a hobby instead of some weird obsessive-compulsive need to see if I'm "ripping" on people (daily?), although I wouldn't want it to interfere with your trackstand practice time.

[fitzpantsenson]

uh-huh, gerunds. what are you an english teacher? that would explain your bulging hubris.

although since i don't take the time to press the shift key i know i'm just giving your arrogant ass ammo to condescend to me for typing "like a ten-year-old".

and who knows, maybe this knuckle dragging fixie rider will take up writing as a hobby just to spite overweening, egotistical knit-pickers like you.

now quit wasting my trackstand practice time and get back to whatever it is you do.

[plutoplatters]

my dad's bigger than both of your dads !!!

[AndiJF]

Er... So you've got a straight chain-line? So has my hub-geared commuting bike with a shopping basket on the front.

[floovio]

So much hate... it's just a stupid video. Get out and ride already.

To answer earlier comments, track cogs are interchangeable (1.37" x24tpi).

Lockrings (italian / english&iso / french) have different threading.

The Campy alloy lockring is italian threaded, 1.32 x24 TPI. :-}

Do some research before you try and demonstrate your degree of "knowledge".

[SkullHead72]

get a job

[atombee]

dura-ace cogs were not meant to be threaded onto pista hubs, have fun trashing the threading!!!

[chuckmorris]

Looks like someone's gonna win an Oscar!!!!

[nothingfeelsgood]

dura-ace cogs were not meant to be threaded onto pista hubs, have fun trashing the threading!!!

[matthewwest64]

Congratufuckinlations - you have a straight line between cog and ring. Whoooopie!!

[GuitarzanJr]

lol mines terrible...i skid and if im goin fast where i apply a lotta force the chain comes off...lol i gotta space out the ring but itll never be perfect

[bonercycle]

so?

[unregisteredcoward]

Wow.

[floovio]

It would be a ridiculous gear ratio for the streets... maybe even for the track. But not for rollers! :0

[turnercurran]

thats a ridiculous gear ratio

[jfcash84]

Those are the same kind of pedals on my roady! They rock!

[jez135]

Damn, you got good spin on that chainline. Mine's tight so she'll only spin like 1.5 times around. Better workout that way

[theseanman]

Yeah, I forgot how far clipless technology has come since 1986 when I ran LOOKS on my converted f.g. It was pretty harsh. I had to go to clips and straps.. Even though that's theoretically harder. But I see they even use clipless in BMX now so if it works there, f.g. should be no problem.

[theseanman]

how common is it to run fixed gear with clip-in pedals?

[chonj07]

very.