Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Poll - New or used?

Complete the above poll, and help one of the little framebuilder type guys decide whether he should add a fixie to his line-up as a permanent addition.

I voted to braze up your own because this is something I would love to do. Whether it ever happens or not I don't really know yet. Next I would love to find a classic in a second hand store for cheap...because I am cheap...err, ahh poor at the moment.

There are quite a few inspirational websites around that document how to build your own frame, with very few tools and only rudamentary jigging.

Check out Suzy's website if you're interested -

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Suzy.Jackson/

Yeah, I've seen that site. I've been reading up on frame building a lot. There are a few things I need to take care of before taking on a project like that. First I need to find rhe space to put another bike, second I don't know yet how much some good tubing costs. Mostly I'm just going to keep reading and searching Goodwill stores for nice old bikes that need to be rescued.

i'd rather get a custom steel frame built if i could afford it. i think a very close second would be finding a classic...but id' still rather have a brand new new badass looking steel frame, like a harry havnoonian or something...nothing obscenely expensive. just a nice, new, tough ride.

Check out Suzy's website if you're interested -

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Suzy.Jackson/
makes me want to get busy with an oxyacetaline torch...

mmmm... lugs.

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sparky

Yeah, I've never built a lugged frame before. I like them, but I like to do funky things with angles and the lugs seemed very restrictive, unlike TIG. Which is fine if you want a 73/73, 56cm square frame....which I don't.

But yeah, this year, it's on the 'to do' list.

On the way home from my TIG class tonight I was just thinking of building a frame. Still don't have the cash for a TIG machine, but I'm pretty sure I can either fillet braze or ox-acetelene weld up the tubes and make it work. I'm thinking I have to get ahold of some old bikes and cut them up and get a feel for working with thin tubing like that. I've TIG welded it before and it was no probelmo so I thing I can do it. Building the frame jig though.... that might be a whole different can of worms. My next fixie may be a home built though.

Old school all the way.

After receiving, and starting the build of my 3Rensho, I believe solidly that it is one of the most beautiful frames I have ever seen.

i'm hopefully going to be brazing my own track frame this summer, but i'm still keeping one eye on yahoo japan's auctions for a 3rensho or nagasawa