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[JimmyHoffa]

Since everyone is riding ridiculous bikes with no brakes these days I figured I'd start a thread to share our common love of something other than cars.

My fixie is like my car, made up of random bits from here and there and worth about $200 dollars.. lol. Unlike my car, all the value in my bike is powdercoating costs. The frame is a 60cm rando japanese roadbike frame a buddy found in a ditch. I got it powdercoated, put all the parts from my old fixed gear on it and voila. I still have a few things left to do with it, but it rides like a dream, is reasonably light for a steel frame and looks pretty good. The funny thin is the whole bike didn't even cost me as much as my buddy's front wheel cost him... By no means baller but it does the job.

[KryptoniteFusion]

Cool. i had my other bike stolen from me from campus. Sad, i was only in class for 40mins and i didn't want to go to class that day either. so i had this frame i found in an alley by some dumpster. always wanted to build a fixie but never motived.

since it was only a frame i had to get everything else. nothing special. shimano bb. origin 8 head set. bullet proof crank. shimano pedals. ebay wheel set. oury grips. total was 200 as well.

I spray painted it. I want to use a straight bar now. Frame is Sun Tour? plus its light. 63cm and im 5' 3"

TWIN TURBO TOYOTA FIXIE





heres a link to the mini album: http://img689.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img0141yv.jpg

Entire Build: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1385...7864&ref=pb

[brian]

why are fixies so popular right now? whats wrong with brakes and gears?

[JimmyHoffa]

^ I've been riding fixies for 3 years and love them. Don't get me wrong, I still have a mountain bike and ride it, but for in-city biking I prefer my fixed gear. It's light, simple (so few moving parts there's not much to go wrong), quiet (I hate the clicking of a freewheel now), efficient and you feel like you're more connected with what's going on. It's sort of like the difference between auto vs manual transmissions in a car. I do usually rock a front brake since I have such a high gear ratio it can be tough to skid stop, or stop at all. I just haven't put my brake on my new bike yet. The thing I don't get is people like a couple of my friends who go out and spend 2k and up on a fucking fixed gear that they barely ride. Carbon and titanium and blah blah money pit. For 2 grand you can buy a cheap car or a pretty decent mid/high end road bike or good mountain bike.

^^How the fuck do you manage riding a 63cm bike when you're 5'3"? I'm 6'5" and fit really well on my 60cm I have less than an inch between my top tube and my balls standing over it flat footed. I used to ride a 56cm, I liked it because it was responsive and handled well, but on longer rides it was just too small.

[mcfizzle]

Goddamnit.

No disrespect to you guys, but the vast majority of people who ride fixies here are fucking hipster jackasses. PBR-drinking Urban Outfitter-wearing Wes Anderson-loving twats.

[Kyle]

^ except they drink lonestar here

[KryptoniteFusion]

Idk it's possible. Maybe Im 5.4 but I'm def no 6 footer. I even raise my seat a lil higher than what u see in the pic so my bike doesn't look gay. It's not bad at all for me 4 miles comute to work 1 mile to school. Oh I tilt my bike to get on/off. The frame was free so why not

[JimmyHoffa]

I like Wes Anderson movies and I do drink PBR when I'm broke since it's pretty much the cheapest drinkable beer available here, but I am not a fucking hipster. I don't have a DSLR or a Mac, I don't wear skinny jeans or vans or chucks, I don't wear buddy holly glasses, I've never been inside an urban outfitters in my life (they don't have them in Canada).

[Garcia]

I ride my fixed gear everywhere. I live in downtown St. Pete. Nothing is really faraway. Another cool feature about FL, it's flat as FFFUUUUUUU, so I rarely have to travel up-hill.

Now for the pics...

This was my first fixed gear...Felt Curbside.








The felt was nice, but the frame was a tad too big for me. So, I did the only thing logical...I traded it!

I ended up with this sweet flat black SE Lager. It's got Funn bars w/ Oury grips, A FRONT BRAKE(because I don't wanna die), white Weinmann deep-V wheels, and white tires.

[mcfizzle]

Let not the bike define the man.

Still never going to own one. lol

[Rob]

origin8 uno

[opposite]

I bought one of those Felt's off of ebay. Bastard didn't want to ship it across the ocean to this rock.

08 SE Draft



og sugino chainring and spider on one piece cranks sonn.

[7MX63]

I keep it real.



LOLZ.

[Hater]

I got a binachi that I was going to convert to a fixed gear. I had a crazy idea to have like a suicide shifter that did the front brake or something worthless. But then my brother decided he was going to steal the bitch from me : (

Can i fix gear a gary fisher? is that cool? Thats my only other frame now.

[Rob]

well it depends what frame you got^


theres some cool Gary Fisher fixies out there

[opposite]

i'd run a next as a fixie just to piss these faggot hipsters off.

[robc]

garcia your bike looks like a vw hipsters wet dream.

[Garcia]

Beacause of the seat, if anything haha

I love my bike.

Horizontal drop outs are a big deal, when looking to convert any bike to fixed gear.

[opposite]

track dropsss

[ChriSOL]

i guess i have been out of the loop as far as trendy shit goes. helps that i live in ft worth instead of austin or denton where the hipsters congregate in this state.

here's a video from a guy that my friend is going to hopefully be working with, he just showed it to me last night (coincidence of coincidences):

http://vimeo.com/3908754