One Gear: Converting and Maintaining Single Speed and Fixed Gear Bicycles
A simple, appealing aesthetic and ease of maintenance has made fixed gear bicycles (fixies) and single-speeds a favorite of urban cyclists in a growing movement spanning from San Francisco to Melbourne and Tokyo to Berlin. The appeal of single-gear bikes is undeniable; creating your own bike by recycling a grimy old road bike stripping unneeded parts, adapting new components, and perhaps even re-painting is a rewarding experience. Getting greasy while customizing and building one’s own ride is an essential part of the process. One Gear is a unique, much needed contribution to the culture that explains in simple, easy to understand language the steps required for a beginning or intermediate bike mechanic to learn how to rebuild and convert a geared bicycle into a slick, personalized fixie or single-speed. One Gear also contains chapters on single-speed variants such as flip-flop hubs, torpedo hubs and modern coaster brakes, as well as pictorial essays featuring frame builders ranging from classic standard bearers such as Cinelli and De Rosa to contemporary practitioners like Icarus Frames.
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Graphic Design in a Bike Shop Of all the bicycle books I own, this book ‘One Gear’, would have to be my favourite!I’m not a “Hipster”, adolescent, bike messenger or track racer. I just completely enjoy the simplicity of a bike that lacks multiple gearing, carbon fibre frames, and evolving complexity of function over form. Most days, I ride my fixed gear bicycle to get me where I’m going, I don’t want or miss all those added gears to my pedalling experience.This book ‘One Gear’ offers a a brief but…
It has awesome pics and cool fixie art to inspire the entire … Unlike any repair or fixit book you will likely every read. It’s a “Graphic Design” look at bicycle building. The photography is mostly in color and very well done, photos of lots of bikes and street scenes. The entire book is well designed, page wise, a coffee table book on building your Fixie or Single-speed bike. Everything you need is there for building, from tool selection to the bike to the parts, all in order for you to follow. I didn’t want to refer to it while doing working…