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
    6·
    18 hours 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??

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      8·
      12 hours ago

      I’m from Southern Germany.
      And yes, I do tour with it. The longest was about 800km in a week through the Black Forest. It’s important to remember that every fixed gear bike has three gears: sitting, standing and walking.
      But I also noticed that when I start to walk on a steep hill, my riding partner with 30 gears usually follows soon after.

      I admit I wasn’t smiling on some of those miles.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        They may be too nice to say anything, but I am certain your riding partner hates your fixie. Riding with a fixie in the group kinda sucks.

        • superkret@feddit.orgOP
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Trust me, he isn’t too nice to say something.
          But we had an agreement that worked: I get to set the pace, and he gets to sit in my slipstream all day long.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Biking sucks. I do it because I hate myself. But I’ve mostly switched to running because it sucks so much more, and rednecks and fascists don’t try to kill me.