Originally Posted by
fietsbob
I'd recommend a single speed ,instead.
You can get a cheap freewheel hub in a machine built wheel, with another solid nutted axle.
a Shop can re-tension the spokes and re center the axle to turn it into a single speed wheel,
screw a freewheel on and fit 2 brakes on it and you are good to go.
Or just get a fix/fix or fix/free flip-flop wheel and skip the hoopla of having to fart around with re-centering and re-dishing. By the time you pay a shop to do that, you're probably around the cost of an inexpensive hipster wheel anyhow.
(I cut costs by building my own, but my fix/fix wheelsets were $98 in material costs.)