Today I revived My Summer Bike!

This one’s a bit of a beast — a fixed gear touring gravel bike (?)
Cinelli Tutto frame, bought online in size M (I’m 5’8/172cm), and it needed a seat post with setback, a saddle with long rails scooted all the way back, and all the spacers to make it fit.
I guess I’m tall for Italian standards.

Mounted the widest tires it would take, the lightest rack I could find, and the bare minimum in accessories to make it kinda street legal.
It’s the silliest bike I ever built, and it makes me smile every single time I ride it.

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    35 minutes ago

    fixed gear TOURING?? You say it makes you smile “every mile”, but do you genuinely do touring distances on it? Doesn’t Italy have mountains??

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    3·
    6 hours ago

    ♨️🌡️💦

    That said I’ll never get fixed gear drivetrains. I’d always go with a basic 1x derailleur setup. Shimano Cues is super abuse-resistant.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      7·
      5 hours ago

      The only good reason to ride fixed gear is if you enjoy riding fixed gear.
      It isn’t objectively better in any way.
      But it gives me 10x more smiles per mile.
      The fact that I can pull it out of the shed after a year, pump up the tires, and start riding is just a bonus.

  • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.caM
    7·
    8 hours ago

    A fixie gravel-touring bike?! You’re the best kind of insane. I absolutely love everything about this two-wheeled beast.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      8·
      8 hours ago

      You wouldn’t wanna see how smug I can look, when other riders arrive at the top of the highest hill around with their E-MTBs and notice my bike, while I’m sitting next to it drinking beer.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      3·
      8 hours ago

      I’m a bit obsessed with steel frames, horizontal top tubes and single speed.
      Which limits the options for bikes somewhat.

        • superkret@feddit.orgOP
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Yeah, unless you want to mount wide tires.
          Then you’d be limited to extremely rare (expensive) 80’s MTB frames and 26" wheels.

          • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            6 hours ago

            Yeah, that part sucks. I think most frames from that era can fit 26x2.2 ish though, which is something

            Oh btw, that Ukraine-EU flag is nice touch. Meaningful, and happens to fit the color scheme just perfectly