Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Bet they be hella silent in real life ;) Nah...all meant with the upmost respect of this threads vibe..it's about humour and a lickle fuck you to the elitism of it all...sounds you ain't feelin' tho and that's fair..sure is a shit bucket, but caught some good angles I thought. Nuff said
PS: let me know what your wife says about that frame ;)

It's something people sometimes do, link to a bike theyre selling in a relevant thread. That being said, most of your activity on the forum appears to be pushing bikes, I hope there's at least some amount of forum donation love in the process

Seen this on reddit, might have been posted before!

https://tallbiketour.weebly.com/

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Rusty old Ricardo Blitz for the wife.
New bottom bracket, saddle, grips, levers, brake pads, cables & housing, serviced headset and the wheels & tyres are an upgrade from a while back.

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Nice lines on that

First fixie build ever.

Still figuring out how to ride it so far. Realised i will definitely need pedal straps!

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Foot retention is key to not dying whilst riding fixed

I'd also recommend fitting a front brake and some bar end plugs

Agree on pedal straps, had to find some gravel to test out locking the back up and still struggled, can’t grip both pedals enough without.

Got grips and bar ends on order.

Really want to learn to use it without brakes from day one if possible too. Do many people run these brakeless or not?

I've been riding fixed for about a year now and still not managed a skid. Shameful. I just like the simplicity of it all though.

Re: brakeless above - I'm sure more experienced riders than me may suggest otherwise, but I thought it was just a bit of safety redundancy - if your chain snaps, you're fucked, so it's good to have a brake just in case.

Gpwm about a safety backup.

Ordered pedal straps and grips and a better chain. Just trying to get repro graphics for frame now.

I'd also recommend fitting a front brake and some bar end plugs

Definitely this.

Personally, I'd only ride a brakeless fixed gear these days if I was sure I'm only going really slow, otherwise I want to be able to perform an emergency brake if needed

I’ll be bimbling about on it mostly. Plan on using it for very leisurely singletrack/flat stuff, no traffic etc.

Just really interested in how different it feels to ride from my normal stuff.

Woah!

the fork!!! wow, put a 20" wheel and then impale somebody easy!

Perfect for those pesky tourists, who keep walking in the cycle path.

Riding brakeless may seem cool from a distance but....

I rode brakeless for a couple of years. I put a brake on a soon as I was riding regularly in Central London where it's stupid busy with pedestrians. I didn't want to die, and more too the point, I didn't want to hurt anybody else or get jailed. You can stop without, but no where near as quickly as you can with. I'd never do it now.

Just put a front brake on at least. It's not like you have to use it all the time, but it's there if you need it.

When I got twatted off by a taxi, doing an illegal Uturn without signaling a couple of years ago the copper on the scene said, just before they put the driver under caution, if you didn’t have a brake I’d be doing this to you…

Why the police feel the need to say stuff like that sometimes is beyond me.

Yeah that! I was bleeding on the road at the time and wasn’t moving until the ambulance arrived as well, so pretty harsh.
In fairness, she did see it though and the driver got 6 points and a hefty fine. She also hold my insurance company and the solicitors that it’s is not a legal requirement to wear a helmet and that is why she hadn’t asked if I was wearing one at the time.

If you're getting straps, actually make sure you get some quality ones. My first pair of straps were some cheap ones branded "Kamikaze" - very apt name as the right strap, on my dominant foot, completely ripped on a sudden stop.

I usually ride fixed to work, can slow down/stop/do a skid with the legges™ but twice in the last 6 months I've pulled the front brake hard enough to lift the rear wheel off the ground while seated due to pedestrians stepping out between stationary traffic. I'd have hit either or both of them if I was brakeless. Cars to both sides so nowhere to go but straight and only a couple of metres to stop