I bought a Jalop Bike

"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake) 08/06/2015 at 22:46 • Filed to: None

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A fixie! It’s basically the most jalop type of bicycle: simple, connected, lightweight, easy to modify

I’ve already ordered my first mods...I don’t like the saddle on it much and the pedals don’t have sufficient holes for straps so I bought a new saddle and new pedals.

‘What’s a fixie?’ you said? Fixed gear, single speed. There’s no coasting and no gear shifting, just a cog fixed to the pedals and a cog fixed to the rear wheel. This makes it feel very connected much like a manual transmission car. This is my first experience with a fixie, and after a few rides this evening I love it. More to come soon if people are interested

Nymphicus Hollandicus > Jayhawk Jake 08/06/2015 at 22:54

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Never rode one, but I don’t know if I’d like it or not. Might be fun tooling around the neighborhood, but not on a long distance ride.

Rainbow > Jayhawk Jake 08/06/2015 at 22:54

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Ew. I mean it looks cool, but I hate fixies. Coasting is kind of the entire advantage bikes have over walking.

Jayhawk Jake > Rainbow 08/06/2015 at 22:56

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I don’t know if I would commute with one, but it’s pretty damned fun.

Also it's still WAY faster than walking

TractorPillow > Jayhawk Jake 08/06/2015 at 22:57

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I used to have one when I spent a lot of time in NYC and it was perfect for city riding. Very cool ride. I then moved somewhere with really good trails and took the fixie off road...quickly traded it in for a mountain bike (I had no clue you could even trade a bike in until then).

Yours looks great!

Although I’m not sure a fixed gear is like manual transmission...I feel like a bike that shifts gears is much more like a manual transmission :)

Jayhawk Jake > Nymphicus Hollandicus 08/06/2015 at 22:57

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I rode around at a reasonable pace for a while and it’s not too bad, at a ‘cruise’ speed your legs aren’t really working. It's not a bike for a 50 mile ride, but for riding around for fun it's pretty great

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Jayhawk Jake 08/06/2015 at 23:00

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You call that a fixie? This is a real fixie

Tohru > Jayhawk Jake 08/06/2015 at 23:09

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Congratulations on becoming a hipster.

AM3R shamefully returns > Jayhawk Jake 08/06/2015 at 23:09

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Those are a ton of fun, I had one I would ride around here in the suburbs. Yeah, not something I’d take for a 30 mile ride but it's not bad just riding around on a nice day.

xxstich666xx > Jayhawk Jake 08/06/2015 at 23:11

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You forgot to mention the most Jalop thing of all. It’s mid-engine, rear wheel drive!

Jayhawk Jake > Tohru 08/06/2015 at 23:28

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I'd grow a beard but mine comes in patchy

Jayhawk Jake > TractorPillow 08/06/2015 at 23:29

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But the reason we like manuals so much is for the feeling of being connected to car and road...a fixed single gear does that for a bike

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Jayhawk Jake 08/06/2015 at 23:34

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Excuse me? I’m pretty sure mt bike is more Jolop. It has such features as, being old as butt, a ching ching bell, working head light an taillight. oh and the shifter is down on the bottom tube, which makes no since.

A totally kick ass green milk crate for hauling stuff, a bent licence plate on the side rigged into a skateboard rack, and one on the rear from my old Civic. I’ve haul many a beer home in this thing.

It’s even got it’s own bottle opener

and you can have any brew you want as long as it’s a... Oh and the “bracket for the rack is made out of an old belt.

It’s brown, it hauls stuff like a wagon, it has a “stick shift”, and it’s if Vin rode it it ould be diesel powered.

Brown manual diesel wagon...

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 08/06/2015 at 23:37

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Never seen a shaft driven bike before. that’s cool.

TractorPillow > Jayhawk Jake 08/06/2015 at 23:41

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Haha I guess. But come on, shifting gears on a bike is the same idea as shifting in a car. Suspension and handling is what connects me to the road; the manual connects me to the car.

Both of us are car hipsters for even debating it :)

shpuker > Jayhawk Jake 08/07/2015 at 01:39

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Lies the most jalop bike ever is a light, multi-gear (but not too many) bike. A fixed gear bike is like the jezebel of bikes

Stef Schrader > Jayhawk Jake 08/07/2015 at 01:44

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Love the colors!

Old-Busted-Hotness > Jayhawk Jake 08/07/2015 at 07:19

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Mine is more Jalop:

49cc of fury there.

Lee Harding > Jayhawk Jake 08/07/2015 at 19:17

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Can you flip the axle, add a sprocket on the other side and freewheel?

TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H! > shpuker 08/07/2015 at 20:42

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So basically the 93 Diamondback Topanga I rode through middle school? 15 speeds, no suspension, fairly light.