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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
^^^^ nice vid!
I wound up putting a springer fork on the rat bike and it is now complete.
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That is Fricking sweet build , great job.
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Don't knock it until you try it champ. Fixed on the road is a totally different experience to the track. The track is nothing but hard work. On the road it's fun. If you have a flat road near you house you can get your gear ratio dialed in perfect. For hills you need gears IMO. I have a steel frame track bike with a front brake (so it's legal). I ride it 2 or 3 times a week on "my ring" which is about 6 kilometers total. 99.9% of the time slowing down or braking is done with your legs. It's also a great way to get your legs supple for the start of a new season although I ride year round.
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Back in college, when I worked at the local Schwinn shop, there was a Volvo mechanic who had the shop order and build a high end track bike, for him to use to get back and forth to work with. Mind you, he did lived near the Schwinn shop, , the Volvo dealership was not just across town, but across the river as well, between 15 and 20 miles, since there was no direct way there by bicycle, and the roads and bridges were not very cycling friendly at all. Mind you, he was a experienced cyclist, monster thighs and he could lock up the rear wheel, and that was his only brakes. I wonder what ever happened to him?
During that same time, one of the other mechanics at the shop, a older road Racer, but one who had built a few frames for himself. When you bring up the lugs, it reminds me of one of the frames that Doug Rowe built, as he used a small file to put his initials in the lugs, and it took him FOREVER to do that.
Ok, random cool bike.
As was pointed out on another forum, why didn't the builder use smaller nuts to run the cables instead of cable guides?
