Originally Posted by
neo_pop_71
Okay, I'll partially agree with Velognome, conversions are lame and dangerous! some idiot's rear wheel got pulled forward and out of the drop out on his road bike conversion.
Lovely machine uniquely modified.
With all due respect "conversions are lame and dangerous!" is twaddle. A properly installed & torqued rear wheel is not going anywhere, as it were.
Some converters are lame & dangerous since they lack proper mechanical skills, hacks are hacks. When the "fixie" thing disappears club riders & fixed gear enthusiasts can get on with wrenching & riding as they have for the last bunch of decades, quietly.
-Bandera