my new chariot has an accurate idea behind: fixing races and suburban use, for speed and wide-ranging training. In fact, the first aspect is a consequence of the latter. So let's start from the latter. I needed a chariot comfortable over long distances, possibly flexible, in order to face some uphill, or at least not exclusively flat paths.
Cycling Weekend with Captain Bbio and coaches almost every day on my own I realized several things. First I wanted the brakes. Not one, both of them. This is for several reasons. I mention two, the most important riding in groups, in the wake, it travels well. But traveling attached to the front wheel, with all that implies. On more than one occasion I had to discard roughly (tralaltro, when I was behind someone in my turn, it was not without its problems), or at least have to provide some unavoidable emergency maneuver, where a brake assist would have been very comfortable , especially after so many miles in my legs.
This is just another, fundamental aspect: after so many km and manage the effort feels all alone with tired legs is not the best.
It adds a third possible: downhill (in the sense of the term Crasto, not the flyover), the brake is: kill or Skidd of a tire or the sole of a shoe or just because you take a cart with his legs brakeless I discovered not inclined to be easy.
back again, braking a chariot race in my opinion is essential: there is nothing to be done, you pull an alley, more often than usual because it is trans-racing. The safety brake it takes.
So while you worship the brakeless, has always used and continue to use my other fixed no brakes on this workout / exit, and possibly alley, I decided to mount them both. Choice convinced and happy.
Put them both in the end does not imply greater concussion, but returned offers several advantages: a global modulation of the braking almost excellent, thanks to the fixed (ie leg) + distribution between front and rear. Also in the configuration I chose, or folded, the brakes have a position more comparable to the time trial, giving it a very versatile ergonomics on the fold.
Turning to the technical: I pulled an old pair of levers Gipiemme with through hollow interior. Solution Otima because my turn (very convenient for me) is already grooved. For
deformation front on my right. Eye want race levers that run the cables (different head), Teflon sleeves and a pinch of fat away, a beautiful cut to avoid damaging the cable, the end caps little and we have a bike brake! Yes, but from what? Brakes Tektro travel cheap enough, blacks. Let's see how they ... We would have preferred to chromium or other transparencies. Behind the frame is not bad, but before I do not like chrome on the fork too. Oh well, nobody died.
We can only solve the issue of cable, since the frame does not have it. I start looking around which ones cromatti. All hell broke loose! Reactions ranging from surprise to amusement, passing by the disbelief. Leaving aside that idiot cyclist of the house, that's fucked up this time to the nth decreed that there should be more even for a nipple (rays dear, components Track openly charge because "so we are the idiot who bought the same and you have to take advantage" and many other outlets like that) that had a whole box and says: "These will sell them at 20 euros each, but give them mica to you, eh dear, I send them Cinelli, which puts them on its fixed. " Thank you and goodbye: After this I salute you amigo! Ah, if you happen to avoid it is in Viale Abruzzi.
Spin Cycle by turns you must arrive in the mail but are blocked and appear to have been lost in the labyrinth of bureaucracy. In any case, it is import heavy stuff and have a little 'carey.
now distraught at having to settle for a poor woman to lock the sheath solution to the tube, comes the great NAOS that gives me three dismounted from his old bike, still perfect and with the small screws! Unfortunately, my tube is larger and the small screws do not get it .. Aaargh! that anger! however mount them the same adapter with cable ties: do not see anything but I'm going to be exact the same hardware in the small screws to take longer!
The effect is not bad, nothing, nothing bad!
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