ain't got no straps?
you crazy

you knew someone would say it

yeah man, straps are such a downer
i don't follow your logic but i accept it

I have tons of fun riding with my clips and straps.

one shot from my winter ride today. see the rest of the shots at this place

im loving the half fenders! and i am very happy to see a ss/fg singletrack...
i altered my handlebars a bit on the kona... still have to add a front fender and do a front tire change... i'll be posting pics of it again when its ready...
-pete

Boe,

I like your winter beater more than half the $2k+ blinged out bikes in the main pics thread.

my winter ride The International Drug Mule












Free Bike everything except the spokes and the rear hub came out of the junk bin
the rear hub is a ss cassette with disc brake mount soone to be a bolt on fixed cog
and yes those are three leading three trailing wheels front and back with steel rims

I don't know if I ever posted my nice bike, but I can't seem to resist putting this one up whenever there's a chance. Just started snowing on the way home tonight, gotta love the silence of the city the snow makes, the better to hear the crunching snow with.





How you know you need a new chain - this started off here last year, and now the axle sits right down in the dropout. Somehow still have the same tight spot in the chain though - and don't go and say it's because it's biopace.



Wish I was a pirate:

05 langster custom fender and modified mks track peddals soon to have bull horn bars. this is my first fixed bike and im hooked for life i love it, any seggestions on what i should do to it next would be cool.

That's the winter beater? Seems too "shiny" still.

im in california so the winters are not to bad just a little rain here and there

197? Coventry-Eagle.
57cm. reynolds 531
SS 17-52

What's your ratio?

Right now 42/14, for s/s and fixed. Perfect for T.O. riding. I also have a 38 and plan on using it with a 15 once the snow arrives.

I had a mishap w/ the big ring a few years back so I ground it down for leg and pants protection.
It's a convert from way back.frosty 002 Small Web view.jpg

Nice headbadge!
My vinter beater: Made entirely of titanium and platinum...
Kocmo titanium frame, titanium seatpost, Fizik arione saddel. Record cranks. Eno rearhub, dura ace front hub and cxp33 rims. Look titanium stem and ritchey WCS handlebars.

this isnt mine, but i think im digging it (minus the stem).
https://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/dec/BrianOhlen.htm

whats everyone running for ratios for snow? and in what type of terrain (ie: mountainous, way hilly, rolling hills, flat, city, burbs, interstate, cobblestone, ready rock, "mt.goats find a different route")

i'm running 38:16 with knobbies and alot of decent hills once for more then the second half of my daily commute (i would guess about 8-10 decent hills)

thinking i might go 38:18 once it gets whiter
-pete

that's your winter beater?!

almost all of the bikes in this thread are incredible--so much more soul than 2/3 of the clones in the photo thread--not to mention the fact that so many of them have odd frankencycle tweaks implemented to tune them to the individual needs and proclivities of the riders. A+!

+mudguards

Since the winter is just acting here I have an acting winter bike (a real one still in the works).





Jokes revolving around bull.. and "bueller?... bueller?..." expected and welcome.

Still missing this kind of winter ride

My old winter beater

2 previous winter beaters... miyata 310 conversion and IRO Mark V.
sold both of them, now only have my "nice" track and road bicycles. yikes for salt!