blickblocks

seriously

Do you guys get bored with only riding fixed? I haven't yet. No love for Nishiki.

JellyMeetsJam

Do you have another bike at the moment?

blickblocks

Yeah, a Panasonic conversion that's way too huge for me.

I want to buy a Leader frameset and finish putting together the wheelset for it (right now just have the front wheel and a rear hub). Then I'll part out the Panasonic, give someone tall the frame...

ThunderChunky

i get frustrated when i want to go on longer rides, and when i'm too tired to commute, and have to go up and down all these ****ing hills in sf. don't get me wrong, riding fixed gear is a blast, but i really wish i had a road bike in certain situations. (the only problem is i dont have room for more than two bikes.) i think you just need to get a road bike that you have more respect for. that nishiki just doesn't look like fun. sorry if that offends you.

blickblocks

I have no respect for nishiki. I give it the finger whenever I'm in the basement doing laundry.

Suttree

That sloping top tube bike is a sad place to go for a once-venerable
maker of lugged frames. But it probably does the job a bike needs to do--
e.g. get you from a to be quickly. Lately I've been more obsessed with functionality.

What size frame are you looking for?

andre nickatina

Sell your Nishiki, buy a steel road bike that you actually respect. Steel road bikes with the shifting going smoothly are a pleasure to ride when you need a brake from fixed. I got no love for cheap aluminum ones though.

Suttree

Good call. A decent steel bike from the 80s can be
had for a few hundred. Japanese bikes--

rduenas

wrong subforum haha

musicsucks

your road bike looks like a fixed gear with gears as it is.

schnee

Get a geared steel cyclocross. Hucking with drop bars!

deadforkinglast

Sell it and get a nice old Japanese-made road bike, like a Miyata or a nicer Nishiki, Panasonic, Fuji, Bridgestone, or the like. Those are pretty commonplace, so they're not expensive, but a lot of them are great frames that are fun to ride, you don't have to worry about locking them up places, and have held up well over the last 25 or so years and will probably hold up for the next 25 or so years.

Suttree

that's what i'm sayin. I see Miyatas all the time in 200 buck
prices.

operator

That bike is like XXXXS.

Wotan

Currently you have one bike that is too big and one that you don't like....

I reckon you should sell the Nishiki and get the track bike. Road bikes are great an' all but you can always buy another road bike later on. You owe it to yourself to have one bike that you like, that also fits you.

Do it!

ianjk

or a few dollars if you know where to look.

fender1

Sell it. It is ugly and as a high paid mod, you deserve better. How can we respect you knowing you ride that style-less, soulless beast?

LoRoK

I don't get bored riding fixed but I do see the limitations of it. I can't, for example, ride into the mountains. Albuquerque a a big valley, so I really can't get out of town on the bike. I would like a road bike someday.

1fluffhead

I have no love for your Nishiki either.

frymaster

my rule is: only own bikes you want to ride.

sell it.

doofo

how much money are we talking about spending here
?

if i was to have one bike it'd be geared

more versatile that way

fixed is fun but i dont get people who only ride that way

flat urban commuters excepted

paulwwalters

Or free . Granted, my Trek 610 isn't Japanese but it's great anyway. (Although technically it's a touring frame.)

isotopesope

i think you should sell all your bikes and your computer.

frankstoneline

does anyone else find those leader frames repulsive?

blickblocks

Totally

But they're like $200 for a frameset (new aluminum fork coming out), and pretty light.