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06-14-11, 06:45 PM
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help help help.
help me, bike gods, i just picked up a Giant Sedona frame (good 15lb) and have this crazy crazy notion of converting into a fixie. For what i can see as a total newb, the frames are all pretty straight, and there's some rust here and there. The Sedona is light light green and it LOOKS like a track frame too.
So before i go all crazy, advise me on whether or not i should even start the project.
Thank you so much in advance!
So before i go all crazy, advise me on whether or not i should even start the project.
Thank you so much in advance!
06-14-11, 06:52 PM
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pics of the frame please.
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06-14-11, 06:59 PM
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Information such as colour and amount of rust is useless. If you are a bike noob get familiar with the name Sheldon Brown.
This will get you started and answer your conversion related questions
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed-conversion.html
This will get you started and answer your conversion related questions
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed-conversion.html
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help me, bike gods, i just picked up a Giant Sedona frame (good 15lb) and have this crazy crazy notion of converting into a fixie. For what i can see as a total newb, the frames are all pretty straight, and there's some rust here and there. The Sedona is light light green and it LOOKS like a track frame too.
So before i go all crazy, advise me on whether or not i should even start the project.
Thank you so much in advance!
So before i go all crazy, advise me on whether or not i should even start the project.
Thank you so much in advance!
- Learning to assemble a bike
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Seriously. The response to that will determine a lot.
06-15-11, 03:42 PM
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After doing a little googling, everything I can find about the Giant Sedona says its a mid range hybrid. Sometime brands use the same name for modern hybrids as they did with their bike boom low end roadies(schwinn), but if yours is a new one: dont even try. Converting the bike will be expensive and difficult. And you will end up with a bike that doesnt ride perticularly well.
06-15-11, 04:37 PM
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thank you so much for the helps and the criticisms! i think my sedona bubble just burst and i think im just going to do some snooping around at a hipster bike shop looking for parts. but is it better to buy those complete set-ups sold through craigs??? again, thanks for the helps!
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