Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Beater showoff- Show off your beater single/fixed

Now, we have a thread for show us your singlespeed/fixed gear bikes but we need a thead for singlespeed/fixed gear everyday beaters...I know alot of you out there have one as I am in the process of building mine as I need something that won't attract thieves and that I can play bike polo with...Come on guys show those babies off...I'll post mine as soon as I finish it...

This thread will probably end up being filled with pictures of bikes much nicer than my non-beater. :(

this is creamsicle, she was pretty cool until I decided to turn her into a stool. she is now very sturdy
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/115/316789491_523968907a_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/463615449_24e0c0e576.jpg

http://bikehugger.com/photostream/interbike_06/bmc-photo.jpg

this hopefully be revived to be my beater

she was my main squeeze until i got black widow frame. will one day be a beater.
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I was wondering how long it would take for someone
to make the joke that a ridiculously expensive carbon
fiber bike was their "beater."

It was the third picture posted.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone
to make the joke that a ridiculously expensive carbon
fiber bike was their "beater."

It was the third picture posted.

Sorry, I was making spring rolls, otherwise I would've made #2.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/99009301_5307f67c4e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevorwalton/99009301/)

Flat black paintjob from a rattle-can? Check.
Unsightly gaps from putting 700c wheels in a frame that came with 27" wheels? Check.
Nashbar special $40 cranks, and miscellaneous parts from the garage to complete the build? Check.

Nearly perfect coffee-shop, grocery-store, bar-hopping bike? Hell yeah.

Though it does part from the "beater" aesthetic somewhat in that it has decent, but certainly not extravagant, wheels. Hand built (By moi.) from Mavic Open Pros laced to IRO hubs with DT double-butted 15/16 ga. spokes.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4192/green1yc0.png

http://velospace.org/files/newc.jpg
need to get some better pics!

trons, I went colorblind looking at that bike, in the best possible way.

This beast resides in Philly: completely shot Trans Am saddle, early 90s LX crank with the extractor threads stripped, XT/F219 wheel with an 8 speed XT cassette salt-welded on after a winter's use in Montreal, a rear brake made up of half an Avid and half a Deore caliper. Singlespeeded the cheapo way, to get whatever use is left out of the cassette and large chainring.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/ieatrats666/whitenightmare.jpg

This beast lives in Montreal: it's my winter bike in the winter, quick errand beast when I don't wanna put on clipless shoes to go pick up a six pack or a head of lettuce in the summer. Now featuring a hydro disc. Rear wheel's a fixed mtn one from IRO, running a magic gear, but now on an STX road double crank instead of the LX 300 touring triple that was on there.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/ieatrats666/849eaa7a.jpg

YOU'RE FROM DURHAM!??

WE HAVE A BIKE CO-OP??

awesome. i'll be back in june. i'm involved with west town bike co-op here in chicago, can i help out?

man downtown durham alleycats would be the tits.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/routehogger/totoro.jpg

http://velospace.org/files/362865492_07f2afafc0.jpg

This beast lives in Montreal: it's my winter bike in the winter, quick errand beast when I don't wanna put on clipless shoes to go pick up a six pack or a head of lettuce in the summer. Now featuring a hydro disc. Rear wheel's a fixed mtn one from IRO, running a magic gear, but now on an STX road double crank instead of the LX 300 touring triple that was on there.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/ieatrats666/849eaa7a.jpg
Do I spy a superfluous chain tensioner mounted on a der. hanger?
I like!

Do I spy a superfluous chain tensioner mounted on a der. hanger?
I like!

Hee hee, after my derailleur went into the spokes, I singlespeeded it with a cheap kit, and after a couple of months the bolt for the tensioner was rusted into the hanger; when I went to remove it after I got a fixed wheel, the bolt easily stripped. I even tried cutting big slats into the head with a dremel to use a big screwdriver, but the first try sheared off two big hunks of the bolt, so I'm stuck with it.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/99009301_5307f67c4e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevorwalton/99009301/)

Flat black paintjob from a rattle-can? Check.
Unsightly gaps from putting 700c wheels in a frame that came with 27" wheels? Check.
Nashbar special $40 cranks, and miscellaneous parts from the garage to complete the build? Check.

Nearly perfect coffee-shop, grocery-store, bar-hopping bike? Hell yeah.

Though it does part from the "beater" aesthetic somewhat in that it has decent, but certainly not extravagant, wheels. Hand built (By moi.) from Mavic Open Pros laced to IRO hubs with DT double-butted 15/16 ga. spokes.

Nice beater! This is the direction I was going in with mine! It'll look very similar once I'm done...

Nice beater!

Thanks, I just had it stuffed.

http://bikehugger.com/photostream/interbike_06/bmc-photo.jpg


well played. but how can you ride that around ?? the shame ,don't you get imberessed!

^ I clicked this thread wondering how long it would be till someone did that. 5 posts, not bad.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w142/kjohnnytarr/S5001256.jpg

That's me.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/johncam4/bike.jpg

suicide hub
tight fender
heavy
....i forgot where i locked it, i guess you could say i lost it

YOU'RE FROM DURHAM!??

WE HAVE A BIKE CO-OP??

awesome. i'll be back in june. i'm involved with west town bike co-op here in chicago, can i help out?

man downtown durham alleycats would be the tits.
i just moved here a week ago & i knew we had one. i'll be there sunday to fix up my new ride. also, let's get some alleycats rollin'... or at least some bar rolls.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w142/kjohnnytarr/S5001256.jpg

That's me.
What's the story with your coffee cup holder? Homemade? My girlfriend is looking for one to ride to school with.

i just moved here a week ago & i knew we had one. i'll be there sunday to fix up my new ride. also, let's get some alleycats rollin'... or at least some bar rolls.

oh man i am so excited. ever since i moved to chicago i've been thinking how fun fixed riding is going to be when i get home. after 9PM durham has the most abandoned downtown ever

after 9PM durham has the most abandoned downtown ever well we're going to have to change all that, aren't we?

coffee.......sure, that's what it is for.......

oh man i am so excited. ever since i moved to chicago i've been thinking how fun fixed riding is going to be when i get home. after 9PM durham has the most abandoned downtown ever

Well, the streets in downtown are horrid at the moment as they're in the middle of a reconstruction of the streets down there...They'll be done soon though...Hopefully by the time you come back, the fresh pavement will be in place for you and others to enjoy...I know I will!

my first fixed gear and i'm loving it. free takara an old roommate left in the garage. the saddle cost as much as the whole bike.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/delete_radio/DSCF2769.jpg

raleigh gran prix road frame from the 70s (has since been welded twice).

those drops are now bull horns wrapped in red tape.

bullet proof cranks

low-end mavic rims.

some $3 saddle i found at broadway bike school replaced the ****ty vinyl srooks saddle that was on there.

great bike. i need to clean out the BB.

"I'm on my beater bike" Translation: I had this baby custom-made in Tuscany using titanium blessed by the Pope. I took it to a wind tunnel and it disappeared. It weighs less than a fart and costs more than a divorce."

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w142/kjohnnytarr/S5001256.jpg

That's me.

Interesting locking technique. I guess someone would have to pull the chain and ring to get the bike to roll away even.

Interesting locking technique. I guess someone would have to pull the chain and ring to get the bike to roll away even.


No no, that's not exactly it. There's an eye-bolt in the wall, put there for the bike folks. Our town likes us. :)

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/Sirrobinofcoxly/100_1348.jpg

Before I got it dirty

the tsunami sees all weather and the worst of the patch and fill streets in boston.

http://cs-people.bu.edu/bass/images/bike/beaterino.jpg

haven't figured out what color i'm going to paint the (admittedly cheap) carbon to make it less theft worthy.

Sorry, I was making spring rolls, otherwise I would've made #2.

i thought that making spring rolls was the same as making #2
?

Primer and eighties paint scheme, It don't get no better than this http://velospace.org/files/Raleigh.jpg

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8176/bikecopywu8mu9.jpg

$2 bianchi
lots of junk parts.


Now rocks a coaster brake/3-speed S/A hub.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/434439850_bb1c3f4809_b.jpg

This is nice project that ride to school