PICTURES: Your Converted Mountain Bikes!
05-01-08, 10:03 PM
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PICTURES: Your Converted Mountain Bikes!
In the fixed-gear galleries and picture thread are mostly fixie (and ss) roadbikes and tracks. I would love to see more pictures of everyone's converted mountain bikes -- as a fixed gear or a single speed, and even with SLICKS!
Please share yours, and perhaps this can be an official thread on converted mountain bikes.
This is my a Monocog-turned-fixie. I bought it a few nights ago for 100 bones. Cheap cheap. It has been fun commuting on this thing.
And, not really a fixie, but just as fun.
Thanks for looking. Would love to see your mountain bike converters!
Please share yours, and perhaps this can be an official thread on converted mountain bikes.
This is my a Monocog-turned-fixie. I bought it a few nights ago for 100 bones. Cheap cheap. It has been fun commuting on this thing.
And, not really a fixie, but just as fun.
Thanks for looking. Would love to see your mountain bike converters!
haha
05-01-08, 10:26 PM
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Great fun thinking of building up a 700 cc wheel set for it though. Rear hub is an on one single speed disk hub with a bolt on cog from https://www.londonfixiebike.co.uk/
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Great pictures of mountain-bike-turned-fixed-gear-bikes so far.
Keep them coming!
Is it possible to install 700c wheels on a mountain bike frame? What are the required adjustments to install them?
Keep them coming!
Is it possible to install 700c wheels on a mountain bike frame? What are the required adjustments to install them?
05-02-08, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by powerband
Great pictures of mountain-bike-turned-fixed-gear-bikes so far.
Keep them coming!
Is it possible to install 700c wheels on a mountain bike frame? What are the required adjustments to install them?
Keep them coming!
Is it possible to install 700c wheels on a mountain bike frame? What are the required adjustments to install them?
You need to run either NoBrakes™ or Pauls components do a v-brake that will allow you to use 700 c wheels in a frame designed for 26" wheels but you only need a short pull leaver or run disks. Or do a hack.
05-02-08, 08:53 AM
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My fixed gear mtb, year round ride. An old late 1980's Wheeler mtb.
My wifes s/s commuter.
My wifes s/s commuter.
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This really makes me want to convert that mountain bike I never ride anymore.
05-02-08, 09:50 AM
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I totally forgot about this bike. I bent a crank arm, and haven't rode it since.
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Last year I converted My old MTB to a SS/BMX type ride using spare BMX stuff I had around as an experiment. Liked it enough that this year I've been slowly improving it. Still have some changes I want to make, but I really like it as a SS/BMX style ride more than I did as a geared MTB.
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05-02-08, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by wds178
Last year I converted My old MTB to a SS/BMX type ride using spare BMX stuff I had around as an experiment. Liked it enough that this year I've been slowly improving it. Still have some changes I want to make, but I really like it as a SS/BMX style ride more than I did as a geared MTB.
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05-02-08, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty Piton
I'd rather have a single speed MTB!
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Originally Posted by wds178
Last year I converted My old MTB to a SS/BMX type ride using spare BMX stuff I had around as an experiment. Liked it enough that this year I've been slowly improving it. Still have some changes I want to make, but I really like it as a SS/BMX style ride more than I did as a geared MTB.
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I took this out on some trails last night for the first time and it was the most fun I've had on a bike since I first rode my fixed gear. I think I am going to move most of the parts onto a new frame, though. Something a little more aggressive.
