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Small (nominal 47cm) Cielo (Fixed Gear) for Sale - $1000

An old carpenter tells the story of his 50 year old hammer: He has replaced the handle three times, and the head twice!

This bike has been my commuter bike for 30 years. Over this time of riding it back and forth to work in suburban and urban Boston, I have replaced everything except the Phil Wood Fixed hub,. This includes the frame. So it's like the old carpenter's hammer.

My original frame was one I'd ordered with rough guidelines. I wanted a small frame with horizontal dropouts and clearance for studded tires with fenders, with mounts for rack and fenders. I quickly learned I should have also requested no toe overlap, an important feature on a fixed gear. But I managed to ride it for 10+ years without issue. However at some point I started commuting into Cambridge on a bike path with a few tight turns and started to think about that toe overlap issue.

Soon after, we were at the Philly Bike show in 2010 and saw the Cielo bikes in the Chris King Booth. They had 17 sizes and said the geometry was optimized to eliminate toe overlap. I ordered the frame a few days later Like my original frame, it has horizontal dropouts, clearance for studded tires with fenders, and mounts for rack and fenders. So I was able to move everything over and now had a bike I could ride with big winter boots and fenders without fear of taking tight turns!

I should add (as a selling point) that it does have a derailleur hanger, so it can be set up with gears.

Shortly after getting it, I took a job downtown that was in a building that didn't have secure bike parking. I bought a Bike Friday Tikit which I folded up, tossed in a bag and carried it through the fancy marble lobby and up to my office. We later moved to a different building with a bike cage, so the Cielo got proper commuting use again. When that job ended, I used it for shopping and other errands. All this to say, while the rear hub has years of use, the Cielo frame only has about 3500 miles!

The bike is currently set up as a fixed gear with generator lights and fenders. I have a rack for it, but it's not currently mounted or shown in photos. It has 32mm tires now. I was using 38mm studded tires in the winter.

Older, but still working Schmidt generator hub running Supernova headlight and taillight. Aforementioned Phil Wood flipflop hub, so you can have a gear for hills and one for flats, or mount a fixed cog on one side and single speed freewheel on the other side to coast down hill!

One of the notable features are the Bruce Gordon (pointy) Cantilever brakes (a collector's item). These are controlled by Tektro levers attached to a 38mm handlebar.

A thud buster seat post smooths out bumps.

It has a 170mm Middleburn crank. Pedals are not included.