Not only vanity and procrastination leads me to present here my beloved fixed wheel bike (...I do it here before deserting
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/ ...). I had this idea of making a picture of all the bikes I own around every birthday to see how I change and my bikes with me. At the moment, I own two ride-able bikes, a fixed wheel and a geared bike and this post is of course about the fixed wheel.
I'm a bit proud of it because it was my first 'self built' bike (including the rear wheel, excluding the front wheel) back in 2008. It is my 'can do everything but not pulling a trailer bike'. It is also used to bring my son to and from nursery (hence the bracket for a child seat on the seat tube). Noticeable achievements in this year include a SR series and the Dartmoor Devil 2010 (but not [yet] PBP).
The frame is an alu make of unknown provenance off ebay (the geometry resembles road bike rather than track bike). The drive train consists of Shimano's M520 pedals, a double Ultegra 6500 crank with 39 teeth front and 16 at the back. I ride a 67in gear. The rear wheel is based on a Novatec/Joytec (the same as the on-one stuff) double-fixed track hub with 36 DT Swiss Competition spokes on a Mavic Open Sport rim.
The bar is a Salsa Bell Lap Cross with a layer of road tubes and gel pads all wrapped up with Specialized Phat tape (hence the sausage like appearance). Stem is a cheapo MTB one with a Ritchey WCS Logic headset underneath. The brake levers are Shimano BL-R400s combined with a Ultegra (front) and a very long reach Alhonga brake (rear). The fork is an Columbus Carve carbon with a Sachs cup and cone hub on 36H wheel, bought around 2001. Rear tyre is a 35mm Michelin Touring Sport, front a piss yellow 25mm Continental GP4000. Finally, the butchered Brooks B17 saddle on a alu seat post is a gift from a friend who had no Brooks bum.
It has changed quite a bit since is inaugural ride. Until last Winter it was more a cyclo-cross bike. The rear tyre then was a Continental Cyclo-Cross with a Panaracer Flataway inlet, the front wheel a Shimano RS-10 with a Vredestein Premiato tyre (both tyres are nominal 32mm, the Premiato is a de facto 30mm tyre with a hint of puncture protection - hence no Panaracer Flataway)... then there were the no mudguards but 38mm tyres summer months ....
