[RBW] Re: Fixed Gear Boots Puzzlement

2019-03-11 Thread PaulS
I use a WI ENO eccentric hub on my fixed Fargo (1st gen with the vertical dropouts). The hub is 6-bolt disc, which I mounted a Velosolo disc cog. Works very well. About a 51mm chainline, which lines up about perfect at mid-ring on any triple crankset. https://www.velosolo.co.uk/shopdisc.html

[RBW] Re: Fixed Gear Boots Puzzlement

2019-02-13 Thread 'Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch
Thanks, Bill. You are correct, no attack, in my case. I can and have for years ridden a freewheel. When I first discovered (after going barefoot for a few years, which woke up and heightened my proproceptive system and gave me ballance back despite always feeling like I spin like a whirling derv

[RBW] Re: Fixed Gear Boots Puzzlement

2019-02-13 Thread Bill Lindsay
Thanks Deacon. I understand now that your brain is literally injured by the cumulative effects of numerous traumas, but figuratively bludgeoned. Your brain has had a rough go over the years, but there was no actual event with a bad guy bludgeoning your head with a shilelagh. I'll repeat tha

[RBW] Re: Fixed Gear Boots Puzzlement

2019-02-13 Thread 'Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch
Oh, I forgot to answer Bill’s question on cause. Each concussion was different, the first one coming at age 12 when the swing I was on broke at its apex and I landed on my head. They knew to treat the broken neck, but since my brain wasn’t showing through me skull, they didn’t look for much in t

[RBW] Re: Fixed Gear Boots Puzzlement

2019-02-13 Thread 'Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch
Great question, Bill. I’ve had multiple concussions since I was 12. There is a snowball effect to concussions, both in liklihood of additional concussions and in the damage subsequent, lesser concussions can cause. Like the infrastructure of a city in a sever earthquake that gets hidden micro fr

[RBW] Re: Fixed Gear Boots Puzzlement

2019-02-13 Thread Bill Lindsay
Deacon Patrick Over the last several years you've universally used a single descriptor for your brain: 'bludgeoned'. In all those years I've never picked up what that actually means. I know what the word means. "to bludgeon" means to beat with a blunt weapon. So, is your brain literally b