Hello all,
I am about 6 months deep into the bike culture, and am ready to convert my 1970's road bike into a fixed gear! The original spokes are rusted to the nipples, so I'm replacing them with gently used set of wheels off of a single speed. Everything else is in fairly good condition...
Well while I am waiting fo my Absolute 1.0 to come in I have bin thinking I would like a single speed. this is not a bike I think I would use a lot. So I looked on bikes direct thay have an SST1 speed that has what I want and it is only $299 shiped it has brakes F&R, crommoly frame & fork, a...
It's not that I think a single speed bike needs to have any utility beyond being fun to ride but sometimes you just want to multitask. For many hip young urban singlespeeders (...or so I hear; I'm neither hip, nor young, nor urban) improved efficiency in beer consumption is a secondary goal of...
I have an old vintage steelie Schwinn Varisty. All components are pretty much shot so I stripped it down and want to make it into a fixed gear.
I assume all I have to do is replace the hub and that's it?
If so how do I know which hubset to buy?