Originally Posted by
91MF
why dont you just buy a cheap roadie[circa ~1990ish, horizontal dropouts, cassette hub] on CL and just singlespeed it? if you get the bike for $150 more than likely you are looking at a total of $200-$250 after you refresh it[tires/tubes/cables]. if you really want relaxed, swap out the drops for some risers and mtb levers. just an idea.
That's also an idea. I'm not even sure where to start if I do that. It seems a lot of the roadies I see don't have horizontal dropouts