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Old 10-07-05 | 09:34 PM
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Bikes: bianchi pista workhorse, cannondale r1000, mountain bike fixed conversion

please talk to me like an idiot.

i want to convert a 10-speed to a fixed gear (and yeah, i mean fixed, not single speed), and have read some stuff on how to do it. i'm pretty good at doing things on my bike and learning how to do them, but only from doing and watching. reading mechanical materials confuses me. so i need someone to talk to me like an idiot and strip it all down to what i basically need to do....to get the freewheel off and a fixed gear on the wheel, making sure the wheel's straight, chain length issues, where to get shorter crankshafts...those sorts of things. is this too big a thing, or is it possible to get some help with getting this bike turned into a fixie? i know it's sort of involved, but i'm really having a hard time figuring out from reading what i need to do...it's not normally how i learn this sort of thing.
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