Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - $5000 fixie

Ok, so say you won the lotto for $5000 and had no extra expenses. You decide, perhaps foolhardily, that you are going to spend it on the ultimate fixed gear bike. Build it from scratch or suggest a pricey complete. Please include pics and show everyone what you would do with this as your budget.

http://commutebybike.com/commuter-bikes/images/2471922303.jpg

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So... you won the Lotto, then?

I'd buy 30 walmart bikes and race them. Then I'd pick the fastest of the 30 and ride that one to space.

http://i48.tinypic.com/xnvl93.jpg

http://www.hiwheel.com/antique_replicas/superior.htm

http://www.hiwheel.com/images/antique_replicas/superior4a.jpg

plus extras like horn, oil lamp, extra tires, spokes, vintage wool suit, leather boots, etc.

Go to a frame school for what is usually a 2 to 3 week class. They bring you from oblivious to knowing how to create and build a frame and fork, and you actually do build the frame and fork yourself. Knowledge and a custom frame and fork made by you. They also usually teach you how to build-up wheels and such. Then take what $$ you have left and complete the rest.

Go Full Dura-Ace and HPlus's or Zips or something. Maybe all campy... Whatever tickles your berries.

EDIT: Double post

I would use it on a down payment for this and some grillwork
Yea, it's solid gold.

Enjoy

I would use it on a down payment for this and some grillwork
Yea, it's solid gold.

Enjoy
That bike (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2075065/The-celebrity-present-a-bicycle-at-9500.html) costs way more than $5000. :lol:

they couldn't even take the stickers off those hideous white rims? goddamn... some people...

http://commutebybike.com/commuter-bikes/images/2471922303.jpg

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I totally agree with him.

I'd invest the $5000 in an interest bearing account until I could afford this:
http://www.campyonly.com/images/retrobikes/2004/paeng_fixed/img_0300.jpg

cervelo T3, Zipp 808 track tubular and some vittoria or conti pista tubulars.

This is my top5 favorite track bikes ever.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=120576560832

EDIT: That link didn't work, so try this one for the main auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/COLNAGO-SUPER-PISTA-TRACK-BIKE-MAVIC-CINELLI-CAMPAGNOLO-/120576560832?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c12ec4ec0

http://commutebybike.com/commuter-bikes/images/2471922303.jpg

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anyone who doesn't say this needs to get over themselves we are talking about fixed gears here.

BTW Arcade

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/uploads/ats41738_Big_Thumb.jpg

http://www.rivbike.com/images/products/full/0000/3069/ahhalbaw_1.jpg
A. Homer Hilsen.

I'd probably buy a nice road bike instead.

1) Get a digital camera
2) Go up to random fixed gear riders in the street and offer to buy the bike they're riding, right there, in cash
3) Get a bike
4) Go up to random fixed gear riders in the street and pay them to swap my bike with the one they're riding, right there
5) Do that until the money's gone
6) Put it on YouTube an episode at a time
7) Send links to BikeSnob under several different email addresses until he links to it
8) Revel in my internet fame

1) Get a digital camera
2) Go up to random fixed gear riders in the street and offer to buy the bike they're riding, right there, in cash
3) Get a bike
4) Go up to random fixed gear riders in the street and pay them to swap my bike with the one they're riding, right there
5) Do that until the money's gone
6) Put it on YouTube an episode at a time
7) Send links to BikeSnob under several different email addresses until he links to it
8) Revel in my internet fame


a clever alternative... appreciated.

im sticking to my guns though... booze, drugs, women.

http://commutebybike.com/commuter-bikes/images/2471922303.jpg

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I agree but instead of a kilo get a little better bike

room mate got $32k for being hit by a car, still not buying a new bike... :notamused: out of $5k i would buy something nice for a 1000 and save the rest.

I agree but instead of a kilo get a little better bike

i think you missed the point...

I agree but instead of a kilo get a little better bike
Then you're not agreeing much....

Rarely drink, don;t do drugs, and have the best woman in the world.

I would have to buy a bike or take up drinking, boozing, and carousing.

On the 3 weeks to learn how to build a frame... this is just the basics.

Building a frame well takes a lifetime of devotion, much practice, and many failures along the way.

Then you're not agreeing much....

agreeing on women, booze and drugs

I would have to buy a bike or take up drinking, boozing, and carousing.



buy the bike and come down to L.A., ride with Midnight Ridazz, and spend the rest of your money on booze for everyone on the ride :D

I'd buy one of these and piss everyone off by converting it to SS. Bar clip-ons would have to go, too.

http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/reviews/FeltB12-2009.shtml

http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/reviews/FeltB12-2009/LG/b1209-220.jpg

On the 3 weeks to learn how to build a frame... this is just the basics.

Building a frame well takes a lifetime of devotion, much practice, and many failures along the way.


Very true. But, maybe a new passion is discovered?

I actually really like schnee's idea. Start somewhere around a grand, and "trade-up" while documenting the whole experience.

probably would buy a road bike like others have said, and then take it on some nice long trips :)

A pair of these:
http://www.dbstudio-liege.net/materiel/+event_opal.jpg




+ a new mac pro, some room treatment panels, and a cheap fixay with whatever cash I have left over

its got to be the carbon district.

I'd spend most on music: records, CDs, concerts, maybe some headphones and the rest on a mediocre fixed and a road bike as well as a professional bike fit. Saving the rest for the future.

its got to be the carbon district.

Yea baby ... belt drive rocks ...
http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/urban/district/district/

http://www.trekbikes.com/images/bikes/2010/xl/districtcarbon_black.jpg

http://www.trekbikes.com/images/bikes/2010/xl/district_vintagegray.jpg

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Agreeing with the belt drive, although I'd take those stupid "car-scratcher" bars off. Not only will they inevitably lead to an ass-kicking/run-over-ing, but one fall onto those and you'll get served up with a lower-intestine shiskebob.

Picture is crap, here's a link.
http://www.cycles-for-heroes.com/bikes/singlespeed-fixed-gear/peacemaker

http://www.jasonhollister.com/images/bike/bernardi.jpg

well played!

Very true. But, maybe a new passion is discovered?

I actually really like schnee's idea. Start somewhere around a grand, and "trade-up" while documenting the whole experience.

I can't take credit for it, there was a dude that traded a paperclip up and eventually got a house:

http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

I'd buy half a bike. But, that's just what I'd do with 5k.

some guy built up a cervelo P3 into a fixed gear......Id do that.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/emochild88/0128001655.jpg

I'd probably buy a nice road bike instead.
mhm~ I'll throw in a few hundred more bucks and buy this:

http://www.bmc-racing.com/uploads/pics/SLR01red_onblack_03.jpg

I agree but instead of a kilo get a little better bike

What is better than a Kilo TT? A Kilo WT ;)

Probably build up a Cinelli MASH in green:
http://www.citygrounds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/img_1666.jpg

Such a pretty frame.

Edit: I'd pocket the rest, I don't need a $5k bike.

build a scrambler and decoupage it in 100 dollar bills

<3 my Cinelli Mash in Green. Rode it last night, it's freaking sweet.

So Mavic IO + Kilo TT anyone? Hahaha.

In all seriousness, probably an Anchor Frame. =)
http://velospace.org/files/IMGP1859.jpg

Or a BMC Track Machine
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2245/2363308061_f34db2e2ed.jpg

I'd buy a pugs... and a big dummy.

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q6/rudebwoy85/black-sheep-fixie-speedster02.jpg

and the remainder....if any...on wimmin and scotch. Free money demands a stipend be allocated for vice.

god those anchor frames are so hideous

Probably build up a Cinelli MASH in green:
http://www.citygrounds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/img_1666.jpg

Such a pretty frame.

Edit: I'd pocket the rest, I don't need a $5k bike.



thats a good looking frame ... there were allot of good looking ss/fixies all over Manhattan when we were there a few weeks ago.

Yea baby ... belt drive rocks ...
http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/urban/district/district/

http://www.trekbikes.com/images/bikes/2010/xl/districtcarbon_black.jpg

This is how i would go. And then yes, of course, booze. I am the founder of the Logan chapter for the Knights of the PBR Table after all