Hi from surrey

Hi

I'm a fixed noob from Surrey, I started cycling again to try an get in shape (currently 6'5" and 20st ish), bought a specialized rockhopper for playing in the mud and re-built my old Raleigh Yukon early 90s mountain bike as a fixie for the commute to work. My intention was to go single speed, so I built up a flip-flop hub with an 18t freewheel I had and got a 16t sprocket. I rode to work twice on the free wheel decided 44:18 was too low a gear so tried going fixed and found it really good (I won't be going back). I've now got moustache bars to make the bike seem longer (may try risers again and a longer stem) and sugino messenger cranks with cheapie cage pedals + clips and straps. I chopped the original drops off and brazed longshen track ends in place, this worked really well (more by luck than judgement) and narrowed the back end to 120mm for a track hub.

Still needs paint and a bit more brass on the track ends to smooth them into the seatstays and where I removed the gear cable mounts on the down tube, I've taken an angle grinder to most of the surplus braze-ons but the canti mounts still need to go. Any suggestions on a colour scheme, I'm leaning to satin black and white lugs. I'll also move the chainring to the back of the spider and crimp the chainstay to get the chainline a bit better (currently about 5mm out).

i like the current colour and wouldn't respray it. it's cool to keep a bit of the bike's heritage. nice one.

Thats a really good convertion. I have always thought a mbt would make a good convertion. High b.b allready then stick on the oversized 700 cc wheel rasis the b.b higher still, strong has it all. Good effort on the trackends.

p.s I run a 120 mm stem on my bike, and that made it fit me alot better, your stem seems quite short, there are stems longer but they get less common because of handleing effect I think

I don't actually think the BB height has really changed going from 2.1X26" tyres to the 28X700c rims and rubber. Even with 170mm cranks I doubt I could get the pedals to strike the ground on cornering, no probs with the 165 suginos :) . I'm going to have to paint the rear triangle and braze-on points as they are now bare metal.

I've now got the moustache bars on there which lengthen the front by up to about 3" depending which hand position you use. I may drop back to a very long stem and risers though, not sure yet, I'm still playing.

where bouts in surrey? im in epsom

I'm in Guildford (I'm a tech at the uni).

cool

I used to ride with the Farnborough and Camberley CC.

Highly recommended!