get a fixed gear bike

After months of searching I finally found my project. A 1988 Nishiki Road Master in metallic read. Within the next month I had ordered all the stuff I needed for fixed gear conversion, handlesbars, chain, chainring, cog, locking, wheels, tyres, pedals and some other stuff. Most of it from eBat which kept the grand total far below a grand totalt and just added up to a tiny total.

The bike is awesome and I love it!

Finally got around to ordering my brand new Surly Steamroller a week or so ago – picked it up and I love it. So much fun to ride.

She’s called Ellen, after my little sister:

Just got a Schwinn Madison. I’ve been saving for the last couple of months, and I’m really happy that I’ve finally got it.

Shame that I go to uni late hours. I would ride it to uni, but I’m just too scared it’ll get stolen, I usually end up riding my old 12-speed road bike instead.

been looking to get a fixed gear bike for a couple of years now but it never seem to happen.

goal was to get one this spring. being short on money, or rather, having more important things to spend money on, seem to make this impossible though.

waiting for the right day.

I start earning a little regular money and start throwing it around.

Still, I have wanted a fixie for a long time and I don’t EVEN have a spare moment in the day to sit down, let alone build my own.

Answer: ebay.
Just got this beast (oh, it’s scuffed and ugly, but it will work)

The plan is to throw it on my mag trainer and ride it until my legs get up to speed again (if ever)

Bad news: I’m starting to suffer from joint pain and swelling on the right side of my body—possibly osteoarthritis (in the right foot, right hand, shoulder and knee, mostly) and hopefully NOT Rheumatoid arthritis, which is a crippling autoimmune disease.

I don’t need another crippling auto-immune disease. One is too many, two would send me to an early grave.

Anyway, I got the bike.

I got mine at the beginning of the summer and now I have to fly back to VA – no way to take the bike, and I want to build my own now. Does anyone want to buy mine?

_{there are many like it
but this one is mine.”}

Lol! Rumble in the Bronx. For Lisa.

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The frame arrived last friday.

All the other parts had been sitting in my old office at work just waiting for the frame to appear, so last Saturday I popped into work and got most of it built.

Luckily the security manager didn’t see it all lying around. He’s already given me hassle in the past for leaving bikes in the office. This time he didn’t notice. :)

The main problem came from trying to use cane creek direct curve brakes. They just didn’t work very well at all. Trying a set of normal v brakes worked just fine though.

It all got finished off on Tuesday when I got the bar tape on. The moment of truth came that evening when I rode it home.

It’s lovely. Although it’s reasonably highly geared (81 inches according to sheldon brown) it is very easy to accelerate. The chainset feels incredibly solid (external bottom bracket, see) and it just feels good. It’s fun to ride. It just wants to be thrashed and ridden hard.

I’m very happy with it. :)

_{fixed Bike Friday?}

Be fun.

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After waiting the best part of six months my local bike company finally got a new consignment of their fixed frames in.

So I bought myself one. And with the pile of parts that’s been lying around waiting for a frame it shouldn’t be long before my lovely new bike is together.

It’s even been an excuse to buy the last few bike specific tools I didn’t have (like a headset press).