Prism Cycles fixie/single speed: Riding the horse (3rd part)

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

Well, it's time to make our third and last post about the Prism cycles fixie/single speed. Today we want to explain you our feelings riding this "horse" and show some photos of the bike and cycling.

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

We have test the bike riding in the streets of our city: asphalt and dirty road. We will use this bike as a single speed, but you can change it because it comes with a flip flop hub to use it as a fixed gear/fixie bike too.

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

When we ride it, there is no sound, only the chain, it's great, no problems in the hubs, crank or fork, it comes really well fitted.

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

The handlebar is really comfortable if you want to ride like a classic bike or mountain bike, but if you want to ride like a messenger in San Francisco probably you will need a shorter handlebar, we are sure that if you comment it to Prism Cycles before you order they can help you.

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

When we ride on dirty road we ride as well as in asphalt, no problems, no strange sounds, and most importantly: no punctured!, the tires seem strong enough to roll over small rocks on the road.

The breaks works really well, they are very soft and stop you on time to avoid traffic problems!

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

Prism cycles fixie/single speed Riding the "horse"

Well, no more, we recommend this bike, but it's important to advise you about something: before you order this bike, free your creativity using the bike designer in their page, compare with other brands, choose your bike, and about all, enjoy your ride!

Thanks to Prism Cycles for give us the opportunity of test this great bike, thanks Colm!

Prism Cycles fixie/single speed: The components and parts (2nd part)

Hi guys!

Today we will review the components of the Prism Cycles fixie/single speed bike. As you could know, we started this review in the past post called "Unboxing & Assembling" published past week, and today we want to continue this review, soon we will publish the third and final post, but for now, we will review the parts and components of this amazing fixed gear / fixie / singles speed Prism Cycles bike.

Frame

We can start with the frame, we choose the pink color, as you can see, is a dark pink colour matte finish, it comes with a straight fork and rear dropouts adapted for fixed gear bikes, easy to regulate the tension of your chain.

Frame details:

·  8 colour frames to choose from, all with matte finish. 

·  Colours- Black, White, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink, Purple.

·  Size 48 and 52 cm. For information on dimensions please follow this link.

·  Weight of frame and fork 8 kg.

·  Frame and fork sold together.

·  Steel frame and fork.

·  Designed in Ireland.

 

Wheelset

The wheels we choose are in two colors, you can mix the colors, one of the best thing shopping in Prism Cycles is the option to choose and mix colors of your parts and components. Our colors: green for the rear wheel, and blue for the front wheel. It comes with Prism Cycles decals and black spokes.

Rear wheel comes with flip flop hub, it's great to use as a single speed or fixed gear when you want. The brand of the hubs is Quando KT Tech, in black color. It comes with Kenda tyres in black color, but can choose it in white, red and black.

Wheelset details:

·  8 colors available.

·  Black, White, Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Purple.

·  Size 700c.

·  Rim 45 mm deep.

·  Front and rear wheelset sold together.

·  All rear wheelsets come with flip-flop hub as standard.

·  Made from aluminium

Tyres details:

·  Kenda

·  Weight 276g

·  90PSI

·  Tire Bead Steel

·  ISO Diameter 622 / road / 29"

·  ISO Width 25mm

·  Tire Diameter 700c

·  Tire Use Road

Crankset, chain and pedals

The crank is white, and it's made of aluminium, the brand is Lasco with 46 chainwheel teeth. The chain is a KMC in steel color, it could be great if you could choose the chain color!...well, this brand chain is one of the most popular, and it works really well and fine. The pedals comes with classic straps and the brand is Wellgo R126 in aluminium color, really nice!

Crank details:

·  Made from aluminium alloy.

·  46 Chainwheel teeth.

·  Lasco crankset.

·  Crank length 165mm. 

·  For fixed and single speed bikes. 

Break system

All Prism Cycles bikes comes with breaks, you choose if you want to install it or not, we recommend install the front break if you are a new rider in fixed gear bikes, but if you are an expert rider in fixed gear bike you can uninstall both breaks, rear and front.And if you are a single speed rider we recommend to install both. Well, the breaks lever are a Radius in aluminium color, with a very smooth performance, and the breaks are a Promax brand in aluminium color too.

Saddle and saddle post

We choose a black saddle post and a white saddle really comfortable, but can choose other colors: blue, red, white and black.

Saddle post details

·  Three colours available.

·  Blue, Black, Silver.

·  Anodised colour.

·  Length-270mm.

·  Diameter- 27.2mm.

Saddle details

·  Available in four colours.

·  Blue, Red, Black, White. 

Handlebar and grips

We choose an aluminium handlebar and white grips.

Grips details

·  Material-rubber.

·  Size-22*130mm.

·  Single open side.

·  Colours-Blue, Black, White, Red

Well, this is our components and parts review of this Prism Cycles single speed / fixed gear bike, we wait it could give more information to choose this bike, or not, you choose!

 

Prism Cycles fixie/single speed: Unboxing & Assembling (1st part)

One day you see a bike in the street, and you think...mmm I want one like this!...you search in Internet, write in Google: "fixed gear shop"... but you don't know which to choose! Well, today we're going to try to help you,  our friends from Prism Cycles (located in Ireland but with worldwide shipping) has sent us a bike designed by ourselves ... yes, yes, by ourselves! On their website you can use a simulator and choose the color of various parts of your bicycle: chain, frame, wheels, tires, saddle, grips ...
and this has been our experience, we hope you will help!

When you visit theis "Build your own" site in their site http://prismcycles.com/ you configure your desired bike as you can see in the next image...

Our future bike in"Build your own"

As you can see, you can choose: frame colour, rear and front wheel color, rear and front tyre color, crank colour, saddle colour, grip colour and saddle post and stem colour. Well, you see in the image our design...yes, I know, it's too much multicolored but the riders who will use it wants a crazy bike!

After this, you order the bike, via Paypal, about 430€, and you will receive it before 2 weeks.

We received a box like you can see in the image with the 80% of the bike assembled, you only have to fit front wheel, saddle and post, pedals and the hand bar previously assembled with front and rear brakes and grips, it's really easy to assembly all, you don't need to be an expert!

In next post, we will review all the components in this Prism Cycles bike! As you can see our model is a single speed bike, but it comes with flip/flop rear wheel, and you can choose between fixed gear/fixie or single speed, it's easy to change, you only need to disassemble it and turn the wheel.