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Gabes - the roads over there aren't too bad in the main part. I'll be living in the well-off financial district of Manila (the capital) so the roads tend to be well surfaced. A few back roads are in an awful condition but not enough to stop me wanting rigid and 700cc wheels.
Re: brake levers. I've some old XT 'V' brake levers. The ones with the three-point adjustment for cable pull. I've a feeling those might work. If not it seems there are plenty of alternatives.
Tynan - do you know where I could get those white levers? The look lurvely. Are they in production or were they a lucky find?
sounds perfect. I don't have a frame yet. All but one that I've looked at had vertical dropouts. I thought that without horizontal dropouts or an eccentric BB you needed a tensioner etc to run SS. Obviously not! "Or you can get a rear hub (that excepts a screw on freewheel) from White Industries that can tension the chain for you so no need for a tensioner even with non-horizontal drop outs." sounds perfect. I'll have a look for one. I'll have to go through that list of '"working" SS combos to find a tgood 'un i.e. cheap :-)
I think fixed is for suicidal maniacs... not me just yet. I've just taken the rear disc off my hardtail. I'm going to see what it's like for a few commutes and decide, based on that, if I can run front only brakes.
Thanks for all the posts. After these answers and a night browsing online the prospect of building my SS isn't so daunting.
Thanks again,
Mike