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fixed.
i´m convinced many out there already know this movie but somehow it never got my attention until today. pretty nice.
fixed from David Holfelder on Vimeo.
The Impossible Hour
On 25th October 1972, after he had raced a full road season winning the Tour, Giro and several other races, Eddy Merckx set the Hour Record in Mexico City.
His bike in detail:
- Columbus special record tubing with specially cut pressed steel lugs and Campagnolo forged dropouts
- custom aluminium headset
- Campagnolo Record small flange hubs with removed dust caps and hollow axles
- Clement Seta Pista tires filled with helium
- 175mm Capagnolo Record prototype crank with 52t Record chainring
- 14t alloy cog
- 3/32 Regina Record chain, custom drilled
- Selle Royal Eddy Merckx saddle
- Campagnolo Record 27,2mm x 180mm seatpost, drilled below insertion into seattube
- Campagnolo Record Strada SL pedals, customized with cut down cages, titanium spindles, Christophe steel clips, Binda straps
- Cinelli Campione del mondo handlebars, 40mm wide, drilled
- custom Pino Morroni titanium stem
In total the bike weighed about 5,5Kg and not only a few people thought that the bike was about to deflate when Merckx would start to pedal. It withstood and Merckx rode 49,431 with this bike in 60Minutes. After that the record remained untouched until 1984, when Francesco Moser broke it using a specially designed bicycle and meticulous improvements in streamlining. Over 15 years, various racers improved the record to more than 56 km. However, because of the increasingly exotic design of the bikes and position of the rider, these performances were no longer reasonably comparable to Merckx's achievement. So in 2000 the UCI required a "traditional" bike to be used. When time trial specialist Chris Boardman had another go at Merckx's distance 28 years later, he beat it by slightly more than 10 meters.
Sources: wiki, stahlrahmen-bikes
His bike in detail:
- Columbus special record tubing with specially cut pressed steel lugs and Campagnolo forged dropouts
- custom aluminium headset
- Campagnolo Record small flange hubs with removed dust caps and hollow axles
- Clement Seta Pista tires filled with helium
- 175mm Capagnolo Record prototype crank with 52t Record chainring
- 14t alloy cog
- 3/32 Regina Record chain, custom drilled
- Selle Royal Eddy Merckx saddle
- Campagnolo Record 27,2mm x 180mm seatpost, drilled below insertion into seattube
- Campagnolo Record Strada SL pedals, customized with cut down cages, titanium spindles, Christophe steel clips, Binda straps
- Cinelli Campione del mondo handlebars, 40mm wide, drilled
- custom Pino Morroni titanium stem
In total the bike weighed about 5,5Kg and not only a few people thought that the bike was about to deflate when Merckx would start to pedal. It withstood and Merckx rode 49,431 with this bike in 60Minutes. After that the record remained untouched until 1984, when Francesco Moser broke it using a specially designed bicycle and meticulous improvements in streamlining. Over 15 years, various racers improved the record to more than 56 km. However, because of the increasingly exotic design of the bikes and position of the rider, these performances were no longer reasonably comparable to Merckx's achievement. So in 2000 the UCI required a "traditional" bike to be used. When time trial specialist Chris Boardman had another go at Merckx's distance 28 years later, he beat it by slightly more than 10 meters.
Sources: wiki, stahlrahmen-bikes
Rossin Track Frame on eBay
I found this awesome frame today on ebay. 480€ is a pretty good price considering that the frame was never built up before. I´d love to see the complete buildup.
Danny MacAskill - Way Back Home
yes trials riding is far away from riding fixed-gears but i think everybody into bikes just has to love macaskills videos - genius
aero doesn't always has to be expensive
just found these pics - really funny. a cheap way to aero up you fixed gear. loving the visor!
found here
found here
Fixed Gear Bike Movie "KEYAKI Avenue"
I found this today on youtube. I like it cause the focus is on RIDING a trackbike what has become seldom these days. I´m pretty sick of all the bmfix videos out there currently. It´s just not what riding a trackbike for me is about. Less tricksin - more fixin!
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