Fixed gear
From WikiLinks
- Fixed wheel
- The Fixed gear gallery: thousands of pictures of people's fixeds and a load of other useful stuff too.
- My Fixed Gear: The fixed gear and single speed rating gallery.
Articles
- The Power of one by Guy Andrews on RoadcyclingUK.
- Converting a Rear Hub for a Fixed-Gear Wheel
- 63xc.com The off-road fixed gear site with loads of useful articles
- Sprocket and gearing choice (Bikereader forum thread)
- Chainset and hub choice (Bikereader forum thread)
- Introduction to fixed cycling technique by Gregg Goode
- Good and bad cogs on 63xc.com
- Surly Spew: a load of articles on riding single / fixed off and on road
- Getting fixed by Myra VanInWegen
- Fixed FAQ
- Pumaville Fixed Gear 101 book Even Puma is getting into fixed now! This booklet describes the street and courier aspects of fixed more than the kind of fixed riding I do. It's got some useful stuff though.
- How to secure a rear sprocket without a chainwhip. The article mentions there's no need for a lockring using this method. I would use a lockring myself.
- Calculating rpm given speed and wheel size
- Does it make you go faster? the view of a personal trainer
- Magic gear calculator Chart that gives possible chainring and cog combinations for a given distance (center of BB to rear axle)
Stories
- Why real men get fixed
- Fixed impressions: The Gonterian's blog
Shops that carry fixed stuff
- hub jub: carry specialist fixed gear, mostly hubs, also EAI cogs. Will at Hub Jub is a really friendly character who gave me loads of pointers and advice when I built my first fixed. Recommended.
- Alans BMX carries a range of freewheel sprockets (screw on to track hub)
- JE James cycles also carry a range of freewheel sprockets (AC racing and Shimano)
- Byer cycles are not an online shop, they are mail order. They have an online brochure with some cheaper fixed components: chainsets, sprockets, hubs.
- John's bikes in Bath, my LBS. Very helpful and friendly staff. They carry some track stuff and can get more on order.
- Park tools the best cycling tools out there. They also have some very good maintenance articles.
- Sheldon Brown Sheldon again. He knows more than most about fixed/single. A good first place to find out about things. He has a good article about gear ratios (including crank length], about singlespeed conversions, fixed gear conversions and [ http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed/ more]
- Solitude cycles hand built fixed and single speed frames
- Oxford Cycle Workshop specialists in fixed gear and singlespeed conversions using classic frames and recycled parts.
