Now I remember why I work in Devon.
John Nye
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Poor old instagram…
Moving places.
“GOOD IS SOMETHING YOU DO, NOT SOMETHING YOU TALK ABOUT. SOME MEDALS ARE PINNED TO YOUR SOUL, NOT TO YOUR JACKET.”
JUST READ THIS ON CYCLINGNEWS - THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF HOW BARTALI HELPED SAVE UP TO 800 JEWS FROM THE NAZIS, BY SMUGGLING DOCUMENTS IN HIS FRAME WHILE OUT ON 380KM TRAINING RIDES.
MINDBLOWING.
via + THANKS LYNDON WADE.
Reblogged from Hanging Around
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… and by the way, I can’t afford to pay you for this job, but you will be paid in karma — which is so much better and more permanent anyway.
— (via clientsfromhell)
Reblogged from Clients From Hell
A sorry cliché
Desk
I want to design defensive driving class schedular website.
Budget £20 - £ 150.
Longform to a tweet
Fixies represent poseur. Take what I saw last night, an 08 or 09 aluminium Dolan Kilo trackframe,
(similar to this DF3 )
Lovely, except it had, BMX pedals, a painted chain, short flat handle bars and a saddle that was way to low. Theres nothing wrong with that? Yes there is. That is a bike that was built for speed, not for nipping to McDonalds. Its a bike that was built to be ridden for seconds at a time, have 2kW of legpower ripping through the rear stays, hitting 40mph.
The frame angles are to steep for it to be ridden comfortably for any length of time. Thats why the saddle was to low. A low saddle reduces you power output.
A Dirty chain costs you 7% of your power output. I hate to think what a painted chain costs.
Izumi build chains like Brunel for a reason, BMX chains can be snapped on a track bike, real power gets put through them.
The steep frame angles make this a twitchy frame, great if you need to switch lines in a sprint, combined with stubby flat handle bars makes this bike what I can only imagine an “interesting ride” around town.
So fundamentally there is nothing wrong with riding a bike like this, but don’t ask me to like it. It’s form with the trendy pretence of function.
Is How that frame should look
Bikes are the ultimate in functional transportation, fast cheap efficient. Now there is a lot of form that goes into it. I’m the first to admit that the form of my bike is important, white tape, wash and polish the frame, clean chain, shorts and socks just so, legs clean shaven if racing. At the core of all that function rules.
Now ok not all people who ride fixed are poseurs, and there are many good reasons to ride fixed, its cheaper, great for your souplesse, teaches you a lot about riding and even more about the terrain you suffer over.
Making a bike inefficient, ugly(imho), uncomfortable and overly twitchy? Your no cyclist.
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