I'm in.
2011-08-22 01:25:51
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interest in a single speed ride (you don't need a ss bike)?
marko and i were discussing the idea of having a single speed bike ride sometime. those of you who have single speeds and fixed gear bikes will obviously not need to alter anything. to those of you who don't own a single or fixed gear bike, you would pick a gear and stay in it for the whole ride. it wouldn't be full of hills or anything, but obviously, you need to climb a hill or two to get around in this city. any thoughts? any interest?
2011-08-22 01:14:23
Depemding on when I would like to give it a try, cant promise anything but it sounds like fun. I would be really open to a saturday day ride.
2011-08-22 02:05:51
Depending on if I'm available, but sure. I have a habit of sticking in one gear for flock rides anyway.
2011-08-22 02:13:43
Love it. 
2011-08-22 02:27:05
Do we hafta wear black? (just kidding, I know I dress like a dork).
2011-08-22 02:53:38
i will wear a white belt for this.
2011-08-22 02:59:35
I'm in...I usually ride in one gear anyway!
2011-08-22 03:42:48
Since it has been discussed elsewhere of the ability of StefB to stomp ass on a SS, this smells suspiciously of some kind of ambush (he says, walking backwards into the unlit room in the abandoned house).
2011-08-22 13:36:26
say when.
2011-08-22 13:45:11
@edmonds --totally agree! StefB did the MS150 on her SS -including the century option!
Regardless, ambush or not, I'll bite!
"Thor" ((my new road bike)) is pretty much a single speed at this point, so this might be a good ride to take it out.
Although , hills.... ugh!
2011-08-22 14:14:24
I am actually not as fast as people say, but that is a nice boost to the ego
2011-08-22 14:14:30
Stef..... you kicked ass at the MS! So whatever! 
2011-08-22 14:16:44
Sounds like fun. Schedule permitting, I'm in.
2011-08-22 14:26:52
anyone other than john and me riding fixed?
2011-08-22 16:55:32
Colin, I am.
2011-08-22 17:04:00
I ride fixed.
2011-08-22 19:35:49
you got something other than your bmx then? what did you wind up doing? also we need to get chris on this ride. the penny farthing is definitely a single speed.
2011-08-23 14:05:49
penny farthing is definitely fixed
2011-08-23 15:22:32
well yeah...
2011-08-23 15:23:48
"you got something other than your bmx then? what did you wind up doing? also we need to get chris on this ride. the penny farthing is definitely a single speed."
A Trek Earl as my "daily driver", and a frame from Mark that I'm building up into another fixed bike.
2011-08-23 16:16:19
i want a pennyfarthing with a freewheel
2011-08-23 19:02:35
@mark: the classic technique is to simply take your feet off the pedals.
2011-08-23 19:12:28
too skerred! i find that doing that makes it hard to stop... is the classic pennyfarthing brakeless?
2011-08-23 19:15:50
is the classic pennyfarthing brakeless?
Nah, it had redundant braking systems.
A) A spoon on a hinge (I'm not kidding)
The sole of your shoe
C) The sole of your foot
D) Any convenient immovable object.
2011-08-23 19:34:39
E) stick in spokes
2011-08-23 19:41:03
the nut guard on the thing isn't much more confidence inspiring than the brake. it looks like an edging guide from a weed whacker.
2011-08-23 21:18:58
Would this event happen on say... Friday?
I don't see a Flock on the calendar
2011-08-23 23:25:00
I wanted to but I think i may be tied up with things before going out of town this weekend. I may do it on the off Friday next month. I will keep you guys posted.
2011-08-24 00:35:47
SS Ride! Keep me posted. I'll bring Chico too, I'd think he'd like it.
2011-08-25 21:36:29
Chris said he's in but the penny farthing will only come out if the ride is super mellow as hills are terrifying.
2011-08-26 03:02:36
The two minutes I was on a penny farthing, was the scariest time I've spent on two wheels. That was on a perfectly level stage.
2011-08-26 03:09:32