What I don't understand is I can buy a raleigh sport with 24 speeds (sora) for $375 on sale and I don't hear it trashed as far as being low quality like the langster is. Nobody complains about Sora BB like they do Langster BB. It almost seems like langster BB is below quality of Sora.

Anyhow. How about the Pista (bianchi) "the cool kid's favorite".Is that bike a POS.

About building your own fixie, all you need is the rear hub to do a conversion right, everything else is recyclable (even the crank?)