 fullsize From the non drive side. |
 fullsize From the drive side. |
 fullsize The rear hub showing off the fixed or freewheel option. |
 fullsize The view from in front including the little panda. |
I purchased a pair of wheels from Kerry at Phantom, the hubs are Surly double sided rear, with a dura ace 16 tooth fixed sprocket on one side and a 16 tooth freewheel sprocket on the other. I already had the saddle, seatpost, bars and stem in the garage. I got the brakes and levers from Kerry also, then from Mal while I was building it up I bought cranks (I had a pair of Suigno 170mm cranks with square taper in the shed, however at 110 pcd no one seemed to have a 44 tooth front ring to fit) (nice fairly light FSA MTB cranks with only the 44 tooth outer ring kept on it), a isis bottom bracket with spacers to get the chain line right, a bottle cage and the track chain. I bought a 15mm spanner from repco and have that taped to the seat tube with a spare tube and a tyre lever. The panda came from the same place I bought the penguin, purchased when I had to get some other stuff from them a little while ago.
So far I have ridden it around some flat parts of town, into upper O'Connor and around the lake on the bike path. All of the riding so far has been on the freewheel as I have not been game yet to ride the fixed gear. Anyway N+1 happened and it is a fun bike to ride (after all, bikes are fun). The gearing seems pretty good, Allan Bontjer, who largely convinced me it would be fun to have a bike like this, has a page of gear inches up which tells me I am running 74.3, not much different to the 74.9 he tends to run on his.
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