The Fixed Gear Thread!

[Axiom]

looks good!
diggin the pokemon card

 

[Knuckleballer32]

why you put a charizard on there man?!?!? it's a holograph card too???? haha jk looks great man

 

[DonaldM]

Haha. A kid from work had a whole stack of holos and gave me that one cause i told him i used to have one. it was teacher appreciation week.



On another note, I'm going to just have to buy a new frameset. The cotter pins got locked in there from over-tightening. The left crank is mad loose, cant tighten it.. it has some play. Long story short, in order to make everything solid I'd pay too much.

Luckily my mom has a lot of connections. She just told me that one of her friends lives right next door to Gary Fischer.. Shes gonna see what she can do.

 

[Steezeman]

Gary Fischer doesn't make any track frames, i also don't think that they have made any road frames either for quite some time. I don't think that will work out too well for you really.

Edit: This is Taylor, not alex, sorry.

 

[Axiom]

Gary Fischer doesn't make any track frames, i also don't think that they have made any road frames either for quite some time. I don't think that will work out too well for you really.

Edit: This is Taylor, not alex, sorry.

Gary Fisher is mountain only now, but they're owned by trek, i dunno if trek makes track frames though

 

[Hep Greg]

i bought a Swobo badge for my BayStateBars...

FIXED FOLD.

 

[DonaldM]

Hahaha.. Oh god you and dom coming back from Redwood City was priceless

 

[Steezeman]

Hipster scooter.

 

[Gnartastic]

Sweet theres a fixed gear thread! I've been riding fixed for like 2 1/2 years and I roll with Chris fonseca and the gnarcotix crew based in the bay area. I rock an affinity pursuit.

 

[Hep Greg]

we dont care about words, post a pretty picture of it.

 

[MAGAIVER]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1kf83ifFN...1600/george-w-bush-with-a-fixed-gear-bike.jpg

This is probably old news for you all but I just found it and wanted to post.

 

[MAGAIVER]

Getting a lot of new parts this week.
Got an argentinean track frame, a Privitera frame.
Will recieve this week a Nitto threaded stem.
And if I manage to sell some stuff im trying to sell I'll get a campagnolo fork and a Nitto seatpost.

 

[Steezeman]

Sounds like your bike will be getting pretty gnarly, get some pictures of that new frame!

My bike's pretty much the same, and I've done a couple races the last two weeks, cool stuff.

 

[DonaldM]

Does anyone have any suggestions for a new frame?

Preferably under 500

 

[Steezeman]

If you can do a group buy, you can get an Eighth Inch frame for pretty cheap.

http://www.eighthinch.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=C&Category_Code=frames

$140 for it, but you should probably buy the seatpost clamp with it cause I've heard it's really hard to find the right size one. The frames aren't really light, but they're 4130 and strong, and I think you can barspin them if that's what you're into.

 

[dwebs9]

Just picked this old Classic up from a mate for free. Took some of the components off, made a werid brake rig and fitted some old bars. New wheels, sprocket cranks pedals and paint it could be a piece of crap!

 

[DonaldM]

I ordered a black Surly Steamroller frameset. Dom is letting me borrow a chris king headset and I bought a Salsa stem.

Some good updates comin

 

[Steezeman]

Sounds like it, Donald.

 

[Steezeman]

Double post, fuck you. Definition of bike porn.

 

[MAGAIVER]

Still a work in Progress, I want a better seatpost and a brooks seat and I need to destroy my rear tire so I can get an all black one. Paint's in bad shape but I plan on paiting with the same scheme as the bike above, but with green instead of blue.

But its already running and its smooth.

Privitera frame
Campagnolo fork
NItto stem
And the rest's from the old bike.