• if one was in the market for a vintage ratty fixie frame to use as a lockup bike, what would any of you be able to find in the shed?

    Looking for genuinely old bikes not retro copies.
    Paint can be pretty well f-ed as long as it’s mechanically and structurally sound.
    Front brake hole in the fork would be preferred but not essential.

  • Does it need to have track specific dropouts? I have a shelf of beater steel frames

  • Yeeaaah it does to be fair, need the cool points

  • Without wishing to hijack, I’d like to have a look at what’s on your shelf. I’m after something in the same size range with mudguard eyelets but not at all fussy otherwise.

  • How much you looking to spend? T
    @prevon pmd you too

  • Ahhh not a lot? But then entirely depends on what it is. If you had some battered Gazelle track frame or cool old English frame then the budget would probably go up.

    But I should remember this is bike to lockup, get rained on, and probably get stolen at some point haha

  • Mm ok I’ll PM you later when I get a sec. Cheers

  • Got a 54 (maybe 55) basso columbus frame and forks here. My lbs just confirmed it needs to be built up with a threadless bb as it's previously had a mavic item fitted which meant the threads had to be honed for this.

    Anyway, it's a lovely looking frame and I don't have the time to build it up. Shout if you want more info!

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*SORTED* 54-56cm steel fixed frameset - quill stem, beater spec, vintage

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