Originally Posted by hockdub

with a lot of elbow grease i re-painted the frame, kept the stock crank and arms, bars, stem, headset, seat/post and ditched the rest. bought new wheels, tires, tubes, grips, pedals, chain, and cog/lockring. polished a lot of the parts since there was rust on a few pieces and i came up with my first build/conversion. it was a lot of fun and i spent 150 on my wheelset, 5 bucks on my lockring/20 for the cog, 12 on my toe clips, 15 on pedals, 40 on tubes and tires, 5 bucks on grips, 10 bucks in paint, 12 on the chain, and 40 for the bike. so i built my entire bike for under 300, which is considerably less than some bike shops carry fixies for.