Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - sexy sexy!!!! frame wanted!

check out these wheels I scored today...

all i need is a road frame with a campy group!

randy

DAMN Randy! Where did you hook up on those? sheesh... so what about the Bianchi? not going to throw them on it?

sell me the front?

i love those wheels! i've been lusting after those forEVER!

wow...

Those spokes are narley. Like cables from a suspension bridge.

"narley" is spelled "gnarly", if you're gonna be hip to the 80's, at least do it right :)

as in Bob Gmarley?

']as in Bob Gmarley?

Gneaux, gnott that you would gnowe the difference.

Clay, Remember messenger Matt we saw at Windy City Cafe and Madison? The sweet green track with the nitto drops?

Anyways, We met up for food last night, and, I've been helping him score some new work in post-production houses...anyways..

I told him about my singlespeed, and how I never ride it, want a road bike (especially for things like the Ides Ride)... he was looking for a disc-braked urban machine, and it was just his size...so, we traded the wheels and some cash for the Bianchi S.I.S.S....

I dunno, I feel like those hot wheels would be wasted on the Pista...I could get the rear re-dished....sheesh..I dunno what to do!!!

I kinda wanna build up a de Bernardi road frame...with low-end campy group...that would be hot...especially with those wheels!!!!

randy

My buddy has a Cannondale Road frame that is white (pearl) that would look kickin with those wheels.

Cheap!

L8R

It's a 2001 R800 in a 54cm. It's just sitting in his garage (frame and fork), so he'd sell it cheap!

L8R

It's a 2001 R800 in a 54cm. It's just sitting in his garage (frame and fork), so he'd sell it cheap!

L8R

Id need at least a 59, most likely a 61...Id have to get my Pista painted TODAY if I even thought about running those wheels on it...electrical tape and Spinergy Spox dont mix...

im thinking about an older lugged steel frame...like a Bernardi Thron...already had a cannondale r400, which I loved, but is now probably somebody's ***** bike in Iowa...(it was stolen last year...)..

randy

What hubs are those? Are they track hubs?

What hubs are those? Are they track hubs?

dont think so..both seem to be Spinergy Spox hubs...I really dont know anything about wheels...

The rear is definitely not a track hub, but was thinking...the odds of me getting a decent road bike soon are almost nill. but, here's the question...

Is it possible to redish the rear hub, and set it up as a track wheel for my Pista????

check out the pics...

randy

If that's a shimano casette body then you can use a surly fixer, maybe, but you'd still be stuck at 130. You said it was campy though eh?

Might be able to run the Surly deal that replaces the cassette body with a track cog threaded body and lockring. Surly Fixer I think it's called.

Thoe on the Pista would look damn good btw.

Dave

There's one of those fronts hanging in on of my LBSs (that crap one unfortunately).

If that's a shimano casette body then you can use a surly fixer, maybe, but you'd still be stuck at 130. You said it was campy though eh?

previous owner said it was setup to accept campy cassette... but, I imagine that still means it was setup at 130 rear spacing???

damn, wish I knew more about wheels...is it a total shot in the dark to make that fixie friendly???

randy

i wouldn't try it. i'm pretty sure the spokes on those wheels are PBO...which is some sort of kevlar/carbon something or other that isn't necessarily solid, and you could run into problems...

for road frames:

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that's cool that you guys got to hang out like that, especially if you guys can hook up on doing some work together. So now its horse trading for bikes? Thats cool, always better to swap stuff than to try and buy new stuff.

If that rear wheel is set up to take a cassette then can't you just pull the cassette and put some spacers in there to get the correct chainline? I think that you should go with the piece of pvc pipe for a spacer:)

Get that chainline right!

Allright so maybe I am half a**ed about the pvc pipe spacer, but hey it sounds good to me!

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check out these wheels I scored today...

all i need is a road frame with a campy group!

randy
They are nice but watch the spoke nipples. I own two sets of the SPOX wheels and that particular version has had defective nipples. It took me 6 months of prodding to get new nipples to fix my rear one since Spinergy did not want to rebuild it. I am not the only one who has had this problem. But they are still great wheels.