$5000 fixie
 

Ok, so say you won the lotto for $5000 and had no extra expenses. You decide, perhaps foolhardily, that you are going to spend it on the ultimate fixed gear bike. Build it from scratch or suggest a pricey complete. Please include pics and show everyone what you would do with this as your budget.

http://commutebybike.com/commuter-bi...2471922303.jpg

the rest on women, booze and drugs...

So... you won the Lotto, then?

I'd buy 30 walmart bikes and race them. Then I'd pick the fastest of the 30 and ride that one to space.

http://www.hiwheel.com/antique_replicas/superior.htm

http://www.hiwheel.com/images/antiqu...superior4a.jpg

plus extras like horn, oil lamp, extra tires, spokes, vintage wool suit, leather boots, etc.

Go to a frame school for what is usually a 2 to 3 week class. They bring you from oblivious to knowing how to create and build a frame and fork, and you actually do build the frame and fork yourself. Knowledge and a custom frame and fork made by you. They also usually teach you how to build-up wheels and such. Then take what $$ you have left and complete the rest.

Go Full Dura-Ace and HPlus's or Zips or something. Maybe all campy... Whatever tickles your berries.

EDIT: Double post

I would use it on a down payment for this and some grillwork
Yea, it's solid gold.

Enjoy

That bike costs way more than $5000. :lol:

they couldn't even take the stickers off those hideous white rims? goddamn... some people...

I totally agree with him.

I'd invest the $5000 in an interest bearing account until I could afford this:
http://www.campyonly.com/images/retr...d/img_0300.jpg

cervelo T3, Zipp 808 track tubular and some vittoria or conti pista tubulars.

This is my top5 favorite track bikes ever.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=120576560832

EDIT: That link didn't work, so try this one for the main auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/COLNAGO-SUPER-PI...item1c12ec4ec0

anyone who doesn't say this needs to get over themselves we are talking about fixed gears here.

BTW Arcade

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/uplo..._Big_Thumb.jpg

http://www.rivbike.com/images/produc...ahhalbaw_1.jpg
A. Homer Hilsen.

I'd probably buy a nice road bike instead.

1) Get a digital camera
2) Go up to random fixed gear riders in the street and offer to buy the bike they're riding, right there, in cash
3) Get a bike
4) Go up to random fixed gear riders in the street and pay them to swap my bike with the one they're riding, right there
5) Do that until the money's gone
6) Put it on YouTube an episode at a time
7) Send links to BikeSnob under several different email addresses until he links to it
8) Revel in my internet fame

a clever alternative... appreciated.

im sticking to my guns though... booze, drugs, women.

I agree but instead of a kilo get a little better bike

room mate got $32k for being hit by a car, still not buying a new bike... :notamused: out of $5k i would buy something nice for a 1000 and save the rest.

i think you missed the point...

Then you're not agreeing much....

Rarely drink, don;t do drugs, and have the best woman in the world.

I would have to buy a bike or take up drinking, boozing, and carousing.

On the 3 weeks to learn how to build a frame... this is just the basics.

Building a frame well takes a lifetime of devotion, much practice, and many failures along the way.