Originally Posted by jayrooney
Just buy a new fixed gear bike with proper track ends, chainline, bb height, parts etc.
most of the fun of conversions is doing the conversion.
Yeah... better have the right BB height for street riding.
Most of these new "me-too" fixed gear bikes really don't have proper track anything. Don't kid yourself. How can you say they have proper parts when they run a chain ring inside the spider?
The fun of a conversion is knowing you'll never have to pay someone to wrench on your bike- ever again. And that you have a bike that you will ride anywhere, any time.
On the other hand, if you really are that mechanically inept.... I mean, converting a bike, or building a fixed gear as about the easiest thing possible.