Here's another one...

(the first photo is from the Craigslist ad, hence the lousy image on the floor)



As I was working on my Trek 950, I started noticing that I had the spare parts needed for a single speed conversion. So, when the Trek was done I grabbed this one and went to town tearing it down, cleaned up the frame and fork, and built up a pretty decent single speed. The bike is a 1989 Performance Tangent, the top-of-the-line available that year with double butted Tange CrMo tubing and XT 6 speed components. Now, the Tangent is ultra simple and ready to roll with basically nothing to break or go wrong. I think it came out well and I dig the fact that it is built with almost 100% recycled components from the part bins. To be perfectly honest, there are a couple pieces of new housing left over from the Trek, a new brake cable, the Dia Compe canti brakes are take offs (they were mounted on a bike and pulled off for a disc conversion, a customer's call, not mine). The CNC anodized Odyssey Pro Saddles are new too, I bought them for the gray Dia Compe canti brakes that were swapped out. Oh, the Surly 18T cog has one ride on it, my nephew changed his mind on gearing, he got my 16T Surly cog and I got stuck with this one (it's nice to finally have a use for it). The bike should work really well for a grab and go bike with no stress about locking and leaving it. I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do.

-D-