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martynthewolf

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Man builds own bike and hits 102mph on rollers
« on: August 11, 2013, 02:32:35 AM »
I spotted this video on the front page of the guardian site this morning. It's pretty awesome. He built the bike from scratch himself with a specialist fabricating the gearing.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/video/2013/aug/09/bike-blog-experiments-speed-video
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Re: Man builds own bike and hits 102mph on rollers
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2013, 10:49:53 AM »
That was pretty awesome. It was good to see he was basically 100% covered on leather. Would have been pretty bad to have taken a spill at 80mph. Must be insane to get started with one giant fixed gear.
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Re: Man builds own bike and hits 102mph on rollers
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2013, 03:10:49 AM »


That is indeed some inspired thinking!!
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Re: Man builds own bike and hits 102mph on rollers
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2013, 10:23:02 AM »
lol @ the massive chain ring
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