The Single Speed Shopper of Death™ and other shopping bike tales

leeww
For my next project I will start with a 20" shopper (ideally a Raleigh 20) - so I can use BMX wheels, tyres and tubes.

I recently picked up a rusty shopper for free via Freecycle and brought it back to life. Raleigh shoppers use the other 20" size, 451 (20" x 1 3/8 aka 37-451), whereas BMX is 406, so brakes might be an issue, and pedal clearance will be slightly reduced, I imagine.