deathhare

Can we hurry up and get to page 1330 where all the hot bikes are?

shants

no decent bikes here, chief.

beeftech

hot bike indeed

geemac

Urban, dont listen to the people hating on your bike. It is sick! I would love to ride that thing. Plus it isnt like you stripped it of it's parts to make it a fixie.

And to everyone who disagrees with this build, would you rather have the frame sitting there or being ridden? I dont understand why a pista concept with 5 inch wide handlebars and heavy ass deep v's is cool while resurrecting an old bianchi as a fixie is blasphemy.

ph.

fair enough i can agree with that.

UrbnArtst

appreciated

deathhare

I for one hate pistas, deep vs and 5 inch wide handlebars.
I also dislike funny looking conversions that try too hard to be tarck.

ph.

https://velospace.org/node/11299
hopefully you like this then

deathhare

Looks like a decent bike to me.

Suttree

I kind of agree. For one thing there is a tradition of fixed gear bikes for training that
have nothing to do with the current fixed gear trend. A classic well-made lugged
steel frame set up for fixed gear training and general purpose riding is cool. A conversion
where someone throws on track bars that are uncomfortable to ride except in the drops
and a top tube pad is a bicycle merkin.

JackKander

Are we talking about his bullhorns?

andre nickatina

Pista Concepts with risers are fcking laaaame! Coming from the creator of the Concept superthread

Still, tarcked out road conversions are just as lame but in a different way. The whole notion of trying to make your bike something too far apart from what it is doesn't turn out good very often IMO. I'm all about the respectable road conversion with dual brakes myself, hell maybe a Brooks and some leather bar wrap as an added 'cherry on top'. Can't stand the fakers.

daft crunk

andre nickatina

the irony, it's killing me

cc700

i wonder if he meant to post it right after you said it.

NeilMonday

I guess I'm 3 for 3 haha.

chadbrochill17

dope

bakaster

As long as people are riding, who cares what their bike is? whatever they want to spend their money on is up to them and hopefully they do more than post it online and actually get out and ride it.

i agree that putting hardcore track frames in a street walkers mini skirt and calling it a commuter doesn't really work. Putting a too small touring frame with track rubber, 3 feet of seat post and drops that go down to your feet feels a little weird to me as well, but as long as the rider likes it and rides it, good for them.

whatever floats your boat

ZiP0082

daft crunk: i like the blue and white colors. your chain might be slightly slack. the chrome seatstays and chainstays look great!

dubtime

Remind me again, just what is the beef people have against Langsters? I got a Langster about a year ago and have ridden it in it's fixed-gear configuration approx. 4000 miles since. It's been an extremely reliable and fun machine throughout that time. This summer I rode my Langster 65 miles from Philly to the Jersey shore in the course of a morning. Riding it I've become stronger and faster than fitter than I've been in years.

I'm not going to stop riding it because some ****ing style council disapproves. Some people need to grow up and realize they are becoming the people they hated in middle school.

ZiP0082

my only beef with the langster is that i think the upward (towards the front) sloping top tube (AKA compact geometry) isn't as aesthetically pleasing as a no-slope/horizontal top tube or even downward (towards the front) sloping top tube (AKA pursuit geometry).

Suttree

We had a flame war about the sloping TT vs. non-sloping TT merits at least a year ago
on this board. Sheldon Brown said somewhere on his website that the sloping TT
really is about making a frame that fits a wider range of people. Other than that
the Langster seems solid to me. A good frame to upgrade or ride as is. Some people
like frames that aren't made by giant companies like Specialized--and instead say that
Soma, EAI, what have you is better. In the end most of our bikes come from Taiwan
so ride and enjoy.

inteno

My first fixie is complete! It's heavy and it's awesome.

iamtim

Just finished putting this together for the girlfriend:



Trek 1000 setup single-speed without a singulator (because I don't like the way those look.) The chain has a little more slack than I'd like but that'll be fixed with some half-links (or maybe an entire half-link chain); it's wrapped around 39/16 gearing on Shimano 105 cranks with stock Trek 1000 pedals. Front wheel is Mavic CXP22 laced to a Shimano Tiagra hub, rear is a Mavic CXP33 laced to a Campagnolo hub. Brakes are Shimano Tiagra calipers with Chang Shin levers mounted on a set of Swobo Sanchez bars which are held up by a Profile stem sitting on an Aheadset head set. The seat is an older, big, and cushy Trek saddle on a Bontrager seat post.

Sinn

Bareknuckle is from Italy! Grazi!