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TECH NEWS
Viking FixieViking Racemaster no frills fixie from Halfords
Halfords are wheeling out the venerable Viking 'racing since 1908' brand name on a sub-£200 fixie called Racemaster.
The look is classic with white contrast panels against a sky-blue painted steel frame. Fixie purists will be offended by brake cable braze-ons to the top top tube but it comes with a pair of sidepulls anyway and at least the stops are tucked underneath if you insist on dispensing with the rear brake.
We're not sure at the moment whether the rear sprocket supplied is fixed or free - the latter we suspect making it strictly a 'singlespeed' - but the hub is double-sided so you could run both or two different ratios.
There are only two size options; 56cm and 59cm and a limited number of 17 Halfords branches stocking, essentially the urban and suburban London stores plus two in Manchester and Brislington in Bristol. Plus Cambridge for pretty obvious reasons. Oxford will be seething they're not getting their own shade of blue or indeed the bike at all.
Details: halfords.com.
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- brooksby 15 min 25 sec ago
I bet they're not getting a Xmas card this year…
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Yes, that's exactly what it's supposed to be as we were talking about why if you apply mathematical principles to the phrase "That's three times...
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Looks like the sort of phone that was designed to be smuggled into prison, via a mars bar or where the sun don't shine...........
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A good saving no doubt, especially if you're working on rrp for the groupset and wheels, but with 105 Di2 available from multiple retailers for ...
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The rhino in the room is that the bus/coach/large-passenger-transporter driver is also supposed to be ready to stop/give way to people crossing the...
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There's no need for foul language.
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dumb ass question but do 56 & 59 cms sizes come up as 22 / 23 inch frames - ie for tall people only?
Not dumb ass at all - yes they really are only coming in those sizes. Bad luck anyone under about 5'10"...
for a little more, you can have a real Brooks and nice internal cable routing:
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=48560
'a little more' depends where you are coming from, the gruppo is a third the price of a 'swift'.
Nice looking bike.
What? Not going to try to sell a single-speed for the Scottish hills? Well colour me surprised!
Just checked on Halforde site, saddle is as I said, a 'Mont Gruppo' Italian leather saddle, it's double sprung by the way.
Saddle looks like an Italian 'Mont Gruppo', I've got one, great hand made real leather saddle but if weight's your thing forget it.
Can't find anything on interweb about these - do you have any info? The one on the Viking doesn't look sprung (in a Brooks sense, anyway).
Go to 'On One'site, sister site to Planet X. The saddle has a sprung single coil rail and unique mattress type springs under the leather top, the saddle shape is great, a bit like a 'swift'.
I'm guessing that that isn't a Brooks Swallow saddle on it!
I had a flat bar fixed/ss from halfords, the Carrera Subway 0. Paid £199 for it in the sale, reduced from £299, and it was a great bike - not too heavy, comfortable, stable and surprisingly nippy for under £200. And being relatively cheap, I wasn't too concerned about it getting nicked - which it did, so I replaced it (in the sale again), only to have it nicked again
Anyway, apologies for rambling - my point was that Halfords have done a decent job on a cheap fixed/ss before, so I'd expect this to be pretty good. Just don't rely on halfords to set it up properly. On my first one, the headset was so tight when i picked it up that I couldnt turn the bars
Good to see a sensible price on a fixie at last - and what looks like a leather saddle as well ...