Originally Posted by
shants
you can use the surly fixxer with your mavic wheel:
you can indeed use a half link with the vertical dropouts to achieve better tension. here is an article about finding the "magic gear (ratio)" to use with a given bike with vertical dropouts:
http://www.63xc.com/toddp/halflink.htm
yea, I saw that while shopping for my new road bike.
I wish I can start fresh, new frame and wheels but I just dropped about 3k on the roadie. My gf would kill me if I start building another "new" bike.
Thanks for all the links, I will study them when I get home tonight.