What was your total cost including shipping and boxing?

As far as fixie pedals go, I use platforms without cages...but it's not for everybody.

"suicide hub" i like that term. i used to ride one myself as my first fixed ride. luckily when i stripped mine i didnt fall or get hurt. i think my friend had skidded it a few days before and then felt the cog "move" a little bit. i couldnt skid yet so i had not yet put alot of pressure on the rear hub. a few days later with a pedal stroke it stripped and i was left with a useless rear wheel. i think i rode it for about 2-3 months and got pretty good use out of it before i stripped it. then i saved up and bought a dura ace hub laced to a mavic rim on ebay for $200 and a campy road crank with one ring for 50 bucks and put it on a $100 1970s british bike i bought from a friend. in the end my bike cost $350 about 100-150 bucks more than what an applecart bike sells for, but it still rides to this day and holds up to skidding/stopping/riding hard all day, whereas i probably would have gone through about 50 rigged wheels by now. i wish i would have done my second setup originally because i would never have had to replace anything and would have saved money. i thought i was getting something cheap with the rigged bike, but in the end i ended up having to pay way more than i would have setting up a nice conversion to begin with. i bought the bike originally because i didnt know the difference between a rigged fixed and a real one and just wanted to buy something cheap, so to me the newbie i thought i was getting a sweet deal. i wish i had not bought it, and i hope other people dont have to suffer from a broken bike like i did. just to let everyone know that i am trying to be nice and not trying to be a jerk by talking smack on applecart and similarly rigged bikes.

My total came to $179. $86 for the bike, $35 for his "professional packaging", and $58 for shipping. I must have skipped over the part in the description about the $35 packaging fee, I wasnt expecting that one!
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i wouldn't feel too bad. you're getting on the road for what lots of folks put into a rear wheel. start doing the math for picking up frame, fork, head set, stem, bottom bracket, crank, seat post, handle bars ... you get to $200 really quick even if some of the stuff is crap and/or used.