r0ckh0und 

Built this in the early days of quarantine. LHD with an elliptical chainring.

Murray Missile 

Thought I better follow up on this thread since I initially posted the plan here. The saddle and clamp pictured got replaced because the clamp was shot, I also ended up changing the trigger shifters for thumbies because the triggers were pretty worn out. The thumbies were still from the junk box but I did have to put a $1.00 shift cable on it so I blew my budget right out of the water. It handles so nicely I've decided to give it a proper build next Spring with a paint job, drop bar conversion and lots of vintage Suntour.

sloar 

browngw 

I just noticed I never did show the completed Lespo Samchully build. I worked well and was eventually sold to a young lady. The bottom photo shows the padded saddle she wanted installed.

rustystrings61 

I think Maitre Jacques fits the bill if we're not too strict about it -

$50 for a c.1971 Gitane TdF frameset with stock Stronglight BB and P3 headset, with the top nut replaced with a Zeus unit.
$10 spent several years earlier for a 113mm Stronglight BB spindle that served on three other fixed-gears before this one.
Stronglight 93 crankset with the inner shelves shaved and the bolt holes slightly countersunk for single-ring use, scavenged from an earlier Gitane find, previously used on no less than six other bikes.
(Initially) Weinmann 500 calipers from the bin (later replaced with $10 + shipping Weinmann Carreras from eBay).
Brooks B17 purchased 13 years earlier that had been fitted to six different bikes through the years, with crash scars from 2000.
MKS Sylvan track pedals from the bin, fitted with scavenged Christophe Special clips and recycled straps with buckle pads and buttons that were initially on other bikes.
Dia-Compe Blaze aero levers from the bin, with one torn hood repaired with electrical tape.
16T track cog purchased for the fourth fixed-gear back from this one.
Nitto 176 bars and Technomic stem that had graced at least three bikes earlier.
Blue Tressostar tape purchased a decade earlier for a bike I had long since sold - dyed green with Easter egg dye and shellacked.
Initially built with tubulars using tires given to me with a junker, a scavenged tubular front wheel from who knows where, and an IRO hub I had bought earlier for $15 or so, a scavenged tubular rim and spokes from a wheel that had failed when the flanges broke.
Wheelset replaced later with a Kogswell fixed-gear hubset laced to Mavic MA-3s acquired by trading a decade-old Shimano dynohub laced to a Mavic MA-2.
26.4 SR LaPrade seatpost that might have been $5 at the old LBS.
Nitto T type cage that had been on my Mercian until the double handlebar mount broke - and one of the (non-critical) welds on this cage broke when it landed on the road. Superglued back together and fitted to a Minoura handlebar mount from the bin.

Potential disqualifier - about a year in, after struggling mightily to keep the fixed cup fixed in place, the left side bearings and cup failed. I had a set of Phil Wood French retainer rings purchased several years earlier, and wound up buying a used Phil 113mm BB for $40 or so - which in the end, I had to mount reversed to get the chainline just right.



I built this to be a beater bike to take on family vacations so I could get in a ride around beach towns - Edisto Island is particularly fun. Then when I was getting up really early in the summer I would pick this one for my Dawn Patrol rides before work, as it just handles so well. For a parts bin build, it is shockingly smooth and responsive, and the drivetrain is the silkiest smoothest one in the stable. Go figure.

grant40

Here is my only junk build. It is an old Univega road bike that was in a pile of low end, vintage bikes. I got the bike for $10 and made it into a fixie with some parts I know I would never use on other bikes. It is a fixed gear with the cog threaded on the freewheel hub and a BB lockring. No brakes as well. I put some weird cut off drop bars on it as well as an ISM Adamo seat.

grant40

Here are a few more from the past that I don't own anymore.

Murray Missile 

Now you're talkin' guys! THAT's what I wanted to see!!!!!

no67el 

I love this thread, and these bikes.... thanks to you all for sharing.

there something joyful and irrepressible about these builds.

Some of the best dogs are mutts...

grant40

Spicy