My first 'build'

Hi

I just bought this bike with the aim of turning it into a fixed over the next couple of months or so.

I've used a fixed gear before, without understanding in the slightest how to build one.

from having a look can anyone give me a comprehensive list of what i need to buy (aside from tools.)

cheers!

all you need to know here

The easy route, a new rear wheel - or just get the one you have re-laced to a track hub.

More specific to your bike... I have converted a very similar Peugeot. The chainrings are one piece which is a pain, and the derailer is riveted! BTW the chainline on the outer ring is 44mm.

Other things that (may) apply to your bike... The seatpost is a crazy small size so don't bin the original. The spacing for the rear hub is 126mm.

I recommend you get a £15 track hub from on-one, use odd amounts of spacers either side to shift the hub 2mm to drive-side, then dish the wheel to sit centrally.

All the wheel building mentioned above can be done by a bike shop but mine told me all sorts of crap about not being able to get parts. If you buy the bits yourself you make things easier for them. Bike mechanics like things easy. Or just learn how to build wheels and rid your life entirely of bike mechanics.

:)

surely i need more than a hub and wheel?

^ not really.. most of the work is removing stuff!

Not really.

strip the mechs and shifters off. rear brake & lever too.

In my opinion. A new 1/8" Chain- and sprokets to suit would be good- but you could end up neednig new cranks / or put up with noise. blah blah blah. if you're planning on stopping in a hurry. i doubt the bog standard chain would be up to much in the way of stopping without front brake- at least i wouldn't trust it.

Other bits can be upgraded as you go.

(bottle cage)

cool, has any got any decent recomendations of where to buy parts?

You seem really keen to buy things. Are you sure you don't want a full-sus mtb?

just get a complete rear wheel built, about £50, any decent bike shop providing they got the part can do it for you, depending on the crank and BB, that's all you need to do, as well as a new chain, I paid £100 for a complete rear wheel with fixed hubs, a bit more than usual but it's quite strong (and I feel confident with a stronger wheel).

I end up having to replace the whole BB and crank because it's kept coming loose and got unsafe, so a new Surgino messenger crank and BB, might as well go the whole new crank since the old one was 52, and I was riding 16-52.

I did that with my Peugeot, from this;

to this;

admittedly I wish i hasn't changed it as originally when I got it it was so stunning, it's in excellent condition that even the original tyres is still in excellent condition.

that's all you need to do to make it into a singlespeed in 10 minutes, five if you're good!

What is wrong with bottle cages? I'd never identified them as a figure of 'fixie-culture' hate.
Should have really, after all, they're useful.. like bartape, and mudguards.
Where do you keep your bottles?

I don't, I just stop round the corner and have a cup of teas before I cycle home.

this is London mate, it'd be useful if I wanted to cycle from King's Cross to Wimbledon in a short space of time, but alais I don't have to get somewhere in a short space of time, yet.

it's up to him really, if he think he won't need it, then time to removed it (or simply dislike how it look on his bike even).

take off the bottle cage, get one of those cool bar mounted coffee cup holders. I'm on the lookout for one of them.

peugeots make pretty good conversions. this one is 531pro, with lots of chrome and a funny seatpost. i can't stop riding it at the moment, i put bullhorns on it, much better.

have you got a close up of where the cables go into the brake levers? I'm really curious to see what it should actually be like. Cheers.

that's all you need to do to make it into a singlespeed in 10 minutes, five if you're good!

except you leave the rear brake on if it's singlespeed.

just get a complete rear wheel built, about £50, any decent bike shop providing they got the part can do it for you, depending on the crank and BB, that's all you need to do, as well as a new chain, I paid £100 for a complete rear wheel with fixed hubs, a bit more than usual but it's quite strong (and I feel confident with a stronger wheel).

I end up having to replace the whole BB and crank because it's kept coming loose and got unsafe, so a new Surgino messenger crank and BB, might as well go the whole new crank since the old one was 52, and I was riding 16-52.

I did that with my Peugeot, from this;

to this;

admittedly I wish i hasn't changed it as originally when I got it it was so stunning, it's in excellent condition that even the original tyres is still in excellent condition.

Puppies died. And I never thought I'd say that about a Peugeot.

sigh, no, puppies didn't die. i think we need a fgss dictionary so people stop messing things up!

ok, so impart some wisdom lpg.

converting a *classic *high end geared bike is the puppy killing bollocks.

ripping the fucked old gears off those mass produced pugs and raleighs and fixing them actually makes them into a better, lighter ride.

here endeth the lesson

I know, because that's what I did to mine.

But I agree with the owner that that bike was *classic *before...

i think you are confusing 'original' with classic.