went to the lbs this morning, one of the many, but the only one that knows jack **** about fixies, and was told a lot of stuff by a guy half my age. They had really reasonable prices on the components, so I'm having them build me a rear with a surly fix-fix hub and 700 32's. I've never built my own wheel before, and I don't have the right stuff to get it trued. I discovered that my hangout gear on my roadbike is my 42-14 gear, on mostly flats, but I'm thinking of getting a 16 or 17 so that I can get a little bit better ratios using the inner ring of my current crankset. On my roadbike you can take off the outer ring, but looking at the fixer-upper, no such luck.

Oh yeah, I'm getting a 16t freewheel, for the other side. yeah, baby, yeah.

Next up: chopping the stock bars for a "mini-bullhorn" set, re-routing the front brakes, and doing nothing to the rust.