I might take on the warner park switchbacks this weekend, so I modded up a 16-18-20 cassette.

You change it by hand then? :S

Yup, ride out ten miles, then change by hand, ride the hills, change back and ride home. Fixie riders often will mount a freewheel with two more teeth on the flip side of their hubs to limp home on if theyre tired or if its windy.

what about chain tension?
and after all that pissing about, why not just get a deraillier?
Then you can have up to 9 gears on the back!


I know its a strange concept, but give it chance!!!

what about chain tension?
and after all that pissing about, why not just get a deraillier?
Then you can have up to 9 gears on the back!


I know its a strange concept, but give it chance!!!

Horizontal dropouts let you use about a 5t difference in cogs, and it only takes a few seconds to stop, loosen the QR, switch, and remount.

Why? Because I can. Because cycling isnt always about being just like everybody else, and sometimes its about being a bit silly. Shifting takes brain space, and Im a bit dim. Anyway, I rode the first twenty of the Tour de Holler last weekend with the 10spd DA CF set and dropped back into the peloton mainly as I found them infantile. I only skipped an optional 10 mile part of the Tour as its alpine bordering on insanity. Its barely manageable on a 42X25, so Im trying it on a 20t cog. Burn baby, burn!

I used to find with QR and Horizontal drop outs, if you didnt have a tensioner then the wheel would shift when you put any sort of real power through it.

You didnt tighten the QR hard enough and/or your drops didnt have enough knurling. I climb a few monsterous switchbacks around here, and never a slip. A fixie rider said the same thing to me on the tour, and I asked him why QR is good enough for derailleur bikes, but not fixers, and he was silent. Ive ridden SS on and off for a decade and never had a slip, just tighten that bitch.

I must add: dont even think about riding aluminum skewers on a SS/fix. Steel is the only option other than unobtanium.

Also, probably something to do with landing from 6ft up.

What? I do that all the time on my road bike! Yessiree, theres nothing more fun than bunny hopping an Escalade just to se the look on their faces!