Simplicity Vs Complexity In Modern Living.

[Martinus]

It's definitely a trend with me; I just converted a multi-geared bike (whole drive train knackered) to a single speed bike for about $25 and it's proving really useful.

God, I fucking hate hipsters. You can be a useless, cheap loser but don't make a fucking virtue out of it.

[Tamas]

Dropping hte Marty attitude: what is the point of turning a multispeed bike into a single speed one? Honestly.

[Ideologue]

He said in the damned post, you foreigners.  The drive train was fucked up.  He fixed it.  Christ.

[11B4V]

He said in the damned post, you foreigners.  The drive train was fucked up.  He fixed it.  Christ.

Why not replace it??

[Tamas]

He said in the damned post, you foreigners.  The drive train was fucked up.  He fixed it.  Christ.

Removing the faulty part and degrading your machinery to a less functional one is not "fixing"

[Eddie Teach]

I don't really see the virtue in the multiple speed bikes, mine have had parts always slipping around and never were as easy to control or as much fun as the one I used to ride as a kid.

[11B4V]

[Martinus]

Why would a picture of a failed ex-leader of a failed fascist homophobic party be a picture of "gay Polish lawyer"?

Also, you made too many typos there. Fail. 

[11B4V]

Why would a picture of a failed ex-leader of a failed fascist homophobic party be a picture of "gay Polish lawyer"?

Also, you made too many typos there. Fail. 

Adds to the value of the card

[11B4V]

Why would a picture of a failed ex-leader of a failed fascist homophobic party be a picture of "gay Polish lawyer"?

Irony

[CountDeMoney]

So don't be a luddite.

Meh, I manage an operations center that monitors assets through North America and sits on a $25m data center.  I'm up to my black ass in technology.  Being a Luddite maintains sanity.

[mongers]

He said in the damned post, you foreigners.  The drive train was fucked up.  He fixed it.  Christ.

Why not replace it??

Derailleur gears used off road, pick up a lot of mud and water, the system is taking the chain to within 4-5 inches of the ground, so the whole thing needs cleaning often and wears rapidly. 
Whereas a single speed, is far less prone to this and more efficient in that the most common gear you use is the one you set it up for, and because it is straighter, stronger and less likely to be a warn system. 

Beside this is only a hack/pub bike, if I hadn't bodged it up, I'd have recycled it/chucked it in the dumpster.

[11B4V]

He said in the damned post, you foreigners.  The drive train was fucked up.  He fixed it.  Christ.

Why not replace it??

Derailleur gears used off road, pick up a lot of mud and water, the system is taking the chain to within 4-5 inches of the ground, so the whole thing needs cleaning often and wears rapidly. 
Whereas a single speed, is far less prone to this and more efficient in that the most common gear you use is the one you set it up for, and because it is straighter, stronger and less likely to be a warn system. 

Beside this is only a hack/pub bike, if I hadn't bodged it up, I'd have recycled it/chucked it in the dumpster.

Got ya. Makes sense.  We use are cannondale's 70/30 on road/off-road on the bike patrol.

[mongers]

He said in the damned post, you foreigners.  The drive train was fucked up.  He fixed it.  Christ.

Why not replace it??

Derailleur gears used off road, pick up a lot of mud and water, the system is taking the chain to within 4-5 inches of the ground, so the whole thing needs cleaning often and wears rapidly. 
Whereas a single speed, is far less prone to this and more efficient in that the most common gear you use is the one you set it up for, and because it is straighter, stronger and less likely to be a warn system. 

Beside this is only a hack/pub bike, if I hadn't bodged it up, I'd have recycled it/chucked it in the dumpster.

Got ya. Makes sense.  We use are cannondale's 70/30 on road/off-road on the bike patrol.

Nice practical bikes. 

[mongers]

He said in the damned post, you foreigners.  The drive train was fucked up.  He fixed it.  Christ.

Removing the faulty part and degrading your machinery to a less functional one is not "fixing"

Actually the bike was so poorly designed, the parts so mismatched, it was designed to fail early; it had the widest bottom bracket I've ever seen on a bike, probably just some rubbish they had lying around, so I put in a new sealed 110mm one which is actually right for the frame, the set, me and smoother to boot.


He's what you need to know about single speed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_speed_bicycle