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Lolo
@hollow__legs
This may be a bit of a slow burner but here goes anyways...
To cut to the chase; a friend has offered to weld some tubes together provided I pay for them.
I really don’t need another bike but who has ever really needed a fixed gear off-road shred machine? No one, that’s who. But I can’t deny the fact that it would be fun for thrashing around not-too-technical single track, bothy overnighters and the occasional audax or sportive just to be That Guy that shows up on a “fixie."
The general idea is compact geometry track bike that can take 700x38 tyres and have 3 bottle cage mounts because hydration is important. Pretty simple. If it's light then that'll be a bonus, too. I want to be able to use a track drivetrain to be able to run a fixed/fixed rear hub so I'm probably going to have to use a yolk to get enough clearance at the chain stays (my friend recently built his Shand this way with great success).
This is where I'm up to so far:
Tubes will be a mix of Colombus Zona and Spirit or Life or something. I already have an Enve seat post kicking around so will probably use an Enve CX fork.
I’m thinking gear ratio will be 46 x 19/21 or 20/22. I’m currently running 46x18 on my road fixed which is a little spinny to start but by the time you get to mile 150 on a big ride, you’re wondering if a 19 on the back would make things more bearable. I’m not planning to hit the Corrieyairack Pass or anything like that on this (or so I say), so hoping that should get me up most bumps.
I'll probably powder coat it pink with sparkles.