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05-01-2005, 05:19 PM
We swung by the Flys place this morning , picked my man up to ride downtown with us , he was fixed too . Well its been almost + 4 weeks since I ordered my Kogs and sold my Raleigh . It was really nice riding a bike designed for fixed gear riding , chain line perfect and geometry of the frame was super , I must thank my fitter . Anyway I chose to build up this bike with wider cycle cross rims , Salsa Delgado's to be exact and I am using Conti Gator Skins at 28 mm wide and BOY what a difference the bigger tires really help soaking up all the ruts on DC streets . If you ever go fixed , consider WIDER tires , it just makes sense . The new Kogs feels super stable and handles really well as compared to my old converted fixed gear frame . All I can say is I LOVE IT and the Kogs is a Keeper in my stable of bikes . I could not have asked for a better stock equipped bike , the 120 mm rear track drop outs that are 4 cm long make for wide gearing selections , the fender and rack bosses allow for many future possiblities and the steel fork with 1 1/8 threadless steerer is wonderful PLUS Kogswell has enough sense to build the steerer tube with an extension ( nice thinking Matt ) . Anyway when you total it all up and look at the price its really hard to pass a fixed gear bike up at these deflated prices . A wonderful day to ride my kogswell 42 miles with good friends and great weather .