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Building the African Fixie, Part 3

{ Posted on Feb 07 2007 by Bill Zimmerman }
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The wheels that I negotiated with the frame purchase were in bad shape but, for Cameroon, they were a find. The rear hub lacked an axle, bearings, cones and the wheel itself was missing a third of its 36 ...Read More »

Building the African Fixie, Part 2

{ Posted on Feb 07 2007 by Bill Zimmerman }
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I made my usual Friday stop at the bike shop in Limbe to pick up a wheelset I’d stashed in the back weeks before. They are nothing special, but that they are alloy (not steel) and of the size ...Read More »
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