Originally Posted by
uluchay
I am thinking of converting my old road bike to a fixie starting from September. Everyone has a different taste but I feel like building it is the right thing to do. My only advice would be to get a flip-flop wheel on the back so you can switch to single speed whenever you want.
Agree on the flip-flop, for now, I'm used to riding SS (my current bike is a 1sp Electra Rally Sport) so if I fail at riding fixed I can always wimp out
I've got an MTB with a broken derailleur that I might convert into a SS/FG MTB at some point, but for my first FG I'm looking to buy new for a number of reasons (the mentioned tax benefit, but more importantly the fact that I've been meaning to do "something" with the MTB for about 5 years now...
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