Originally Posted by SingleSpeeDemon
Who has experience with the Raleigh Rush Hour? I ride a conversion now but am aching for a real fixed-gear ride and I need a bike that won't make my wife too angry. Let's keep it around $600 or less.
i've put 4 or 5 thousand miles on my bike over the past year (ride it almost everywhere i go) and it has been pretty great. when i bought there was some kind of problem with the bottom bracket but the shop replaced it no sweat, i also stripped the hub and they replaced that too [both issues were probably their fault, i think when they sold me the bike they didn't actually think i would ride the fixed side] i've trued the wheels twice and have a set of "race blade" fenders for the ****y weather. i replaced the bars with some bullhorns but that is a prefrence thing. also got mks gsr9 pedals. the paint is really chipped and scratched, mostly through my own abuse but the paint is weak
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don't frett, the chain has since been tightened