Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Single speed

Today's Wandering Wednesday was the maiden voyage of my single speed. You can see in the pic what a fine job of assembly and tuning the wrenches at spoke n sport did. The wheels were built by senor snakebite. I paid for everything and attached the aero bars.

Everyone seemed to think aero bars on a single speed were a waste but little did they know this would let me pretend to be a track racing star like young Phinney at the olympics.

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised how easily the bike challenged the hills on the harrisburg loop. I'd almost want a little harder gearing on it... Maybe after a few more rides.

Oh- the steel is totally comfortable to ride on-nothing hurts from the ride. O may also have to consider checking position and the saddle and look for a similar setup for the race bike. I think for my next bike I will look at a surly or hampsten steel frame single that can take some big tires.

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5 comments:

Snakebite said...

Welcome to the world of single speeding.

thE_kErnEl said...

single simplicity is scrumptious

Anonymous said...

Nice bike, and yup, steel is real!

DIRK said...

Bike Porn - YEAH !
Cool Bike.

Anonymous said...

Figured I'd drop this here since you have been online here more recently than the Space site. I found out from Kyle and Spoke and Sport that the Giant just needs a rear hanger. So I told them to go ahead and hook it up. Call you sometime this week. - Josh